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Mass BB gun and pellet gun laws
This is a discussion on Mass BB gun and pellet gun laws within the Massachusetts Laws forums, part of the Gun Laws category; I ran across a funny thing in coversation about gun laws,hunting and use of bb guns and pellet guns. I ...
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04-09-2012, 02:08 PM #1NES Member
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Mass BB gun and pellet gun laws
I ran across a funny thing in coversation about gun laws,hunting and use of bb guns and pellet guns.
I been looking for answers requarding pellet gun use for hunting.
Aside from all hunting laws apply. When I picked the brains of local LEO
he basically refered me to the definition of a rifle per mass law
“Rifle”, a weapon having a rifled bore with a barrel length equal to or greater than 16 inches and capable of discharging a shot or bullet for each pull of the trigger.
In a nut shell he said if it has a rifled bore it will be treated as a firearm?
Ok so am I missing something. Are all the pelletguns sold in walmart smooth bore now ?
If they can apply this definition, would you be in violation of possession if over 18 and no FID ?
Strange..............any thoughts
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04-09-2012, 02:16 PM #2NES Member
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Damn good question as the gamos I had were all rifled but they were break action, I wonder if that effects it at all.
sent from my truck while driving down 95 in the high speed lane doing 55
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04-09-2012, 02:55 PM #3NES Member
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A pellet gun can be a "rifle" but it is still not considered a firearm in MA. Firearm laws do not apply to rifled airguns, period.
John
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When you come to a fork in the road....Take it . Yogi Berra
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04-09-2012, 03:03 PM #4NES Member
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It got a little strange as the only discharge law for bb,pellet,paintball is about discharge across or from a roadway? Interesting also is the 2nd officer who chimed in said there are no bylaws in town reguarding discharge of a pellet,bb,or paint ball except for noise. Here a noise that bothers someone only needs to be audible at 400'
noty sure but my paintball gun seems very load.???
Well to cover my ass I have writen permission from my neighbors to hunt on their property.
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04-09-2012, 03:07 PM #5Registered User
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This. Just do yourself a favor and treat your pellet gun like a real rifle while you're transporting it as to not scare the sheep, and definitely don't stop for lunch at the Burlington mall with it.
Originally Posted by yanici
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04-09-2012, 03:29 PM #7NES Member
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Go look it up yourself if you need to. It's been posted before. Just because a gun has rifling does not a firearm make, in MA. Originally Posted by cockpitbob
John
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When you come to a fork in the road....Take it . Yogi Berra
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04-09-2012, 03:32 PM #8NES Member
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Be 18 years old and dont shoot across a road.
http://www.malegislature.gov/Laws/Ge...269/Section12B
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04-09-2012, 06:30 PM #9NES Member
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How about hunting with a pellet gun...such as killing chipmunks. Do you need to be a certain distance from roads/houses...or does it not matter because its an airgun?
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i remember when i was 16 and tried to buy one. You had to be 18 and if it was over a certain fps you needed an FID or above...below a certain fps you could own. What that fps was i do not remember.
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