HANSON — Dozens of gun owners drove a 55-mile rolling rally yesterday to oppose Attorney General Maura Healey’s ban on ?so-called “copycat” assault weapons — and to put the public on notice that if the government can come after them by executive order, other causes are not immune.

“What she did on July 20 was really an abuse of authority. And the message is, even if you don’t like guns, if they can do this to us, they can do this to you,” said Jim Wallace, executive director of the Gun Owners’ Action League of Massachusetts.

An estimated 150 trucks, cars and motorcycles traveled from the the Minute Man Sportsman’s Club in Burlington to the Hanson Rod and Gun Club carrying signs such as “Tyranny – It’s Back.”

“People need to really understand and be careful — even people on the other side who might be cheering what she did because it’s a gun thing,” Wallace said. “Well, the next time they do this, it might not be a gun thing. Be careful how much authority you give one person. This thing needs to be rescinded, and as far as we’re concerned, she needs to resign because she’s proven herself to be incompetent and reckless, and those are dangerous qualities for an attorney general.”

While Healey has said she was closing a loophole, gun advocates say her action wrongly banned guns just because they look like the AR-15 and AK-47, though they have been modified to comply with Massachusetts law.

Healey spokeswoman Chloe Gotsis said, “Despite claims of confusion and ?efforts to undermine the AG’s enforcement authority by the gun lobby, dealers and manufacturers ?understand the law and are following it. The growing amount of diverse support for this enforcement proves that it was not only an important thing to do — it was the right thing to do.”

A Pew Research Center poll released Friday reports that 44 percent of U.S. homes have guns. State Rep. Geoff Diehl (R-Whitman), a licensed gun owner, said, “Obviously, the Democratic playbook in every presidential election is to demonize the NRA as the big bully with deep pockets. The people who are here, many of them my neighbors, are really the ones who ultimately vote.”