Gun rights groups said Massachusetts is attempting to solve a problem that does not exist with a with its new gun law, renewing their call for the suspension and revocation of the new rules.

The groups aired their grievances with the state’s new Chapter 135 laws on Wednesday during a hearing before the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, over the law’s requirement that the state come up with a plan to implement widespread serialization and registration of privately owned firearms.

The proposal, according to Civil Rights Coalition spokesman John Briare, would essentially criminalize lawful and constitutionally protected behavior.

“We need to all be honest: this law criminalizes honest citizens — not for acts of violence, but for paperwork errors, lack of internet access, or owning something that’s suddenly, retroactively reclassified as illegal,” Briare said during his testimony.

The committee, he told the Herald, surprised him for the first time in his three decades of giving public testimony — both as a participant and official — by not bothering to ask any questions of concerned residents. He described the proceedings as “surreal.”

And law-abiding gun-owning Bay State residents are very concerned, he said.

The new law would require the state to build a list of who owns which firearms. That list, he cautioned, would eventually serve as a “Criminal DoorDash” which he likened to “a menu of homes to target, served up to those who don’t follow the law.”

“And make no mistake, [the list] will be breached. Every major database is eventually hacked. And when it is, innocent people won’t just lose privacy, they could lose their lives,” he warned.

The new rules only serve to punish those who are already in compliance with state firearms laws, he said. Criminals wouldn’t bother with registering their firearms, he said, nor will they comply with demands to mark their guns with serial numbers.

Jim Wallace, speaking on behalf of the Gun Owners Action League, expressed a number of concerns about the law’s implications, not the least of which is the impossibility of applying a serial number to a firearm in such a way as that it can’t be removed — as the law requires — and rules that seem to imply people visiting the state would have to stop and register their firearms with law enforcement officials.

Briare noted that the Executive Office of Public Safety is not responsible for creating the law, but is responsible for implementing it. With that in mind, he said, they could decide to suspend the registration and serialization components, just as they have for previous legal provisions found to be “unfunded, unworkable, or impossible to implement.”

He cautioned them to remember that gun rights are enshrined in the U.S. Constitution along with other protected rights, and that pursuit of “safety” doesn’t allow for any of them to be ignored.

“If the Legislature sent you a law, in the name of safety, requiring registration of religious beliefs or social media passwords, would you enforce it? I would hope not,” he said.