As Governor Romney instituted the first state ban on assault rifles as the federal ban was expiring... I guess it depends on if you think Romney's current flavor of day proclamations outweigh what he actually did while he was in office...
“Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts,” Romney said at the bill-signing ceremony in 2004, according to a news release issued by the governor’s office at the time. “These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people.”
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics...,4302268.story