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  THE SATURDAY SEND Welcome back to the Saturday Send, a weekly digest of stories from  CommonWealth Beacon  that you may have missed.  In this week's roundup: The Supreme Judicial Court protects Massachusetts licensing laws for non-resident gun owners, Jennifer Smith reports, finding that the state’s strict gun laws can still hold up to scrutiny under this lax period of Second Amendment jurisprudence.   Plus: The impact of new federal emissions rules, a spat over the state seal, and new potential challengers for Mayor Michelle Wu.  Check out those stories below, and as always, thanks for reading.  - The  CommonWealth Beacon  team SJC gives a Second Amendment win to Mass. lawmakers looking to license non-residents by  Jennifer Smith The Supreme Judicial Court protects Massachusetts licensing laws for non-resident gun owners, Jennifer Smith reports, finding that the state’s strict gun laws still hold up even after the ...

  View in browser   BY  LISA KASHINSKY STUDY IN CONTRASTS —  Two contests that were supposed to be bellwethers for the direction of the state GOP produced two different results. Donald Trump-endorsed Geoff Diehl’s  11-point victory   over more moderate businessman Chris Doughty in the Republican gubernatorial primary put a hard number behind the state party’s perceived right and Trumpian turns. Massachusetts GOP gubernatorial primary campaign results for 2022. | POLITICO screenshot Yet North Shore voters powered C.J. Fitzwater, a moderate Republican who supports abortion rights,  to victory   over Samson Racioppi, the   leader of conservative activist group "Super Happy Fun America" who organized buses to Washington, D.C., ahead of Jan. 6, 2021, in a highly unusual state representative race. Fitzwater and Racioppi were running as write-in candidates  for the seat vacated by GOP state Rep. Jim Kelcourse, who left the Legislature for a Par...