It's in the MGLs that failure to notify is grounds for revocation. Therefore if you fail to notify and at some later date, for whatever reason, either file for a NR LTC or move back to MA, they can use that to prevent you from every getting a MA LTC again.
We have met the enemy and he is US!
I am not going to disagree with you on your point, but if I no longer have an LTC by operation of law because I left the state, and the notification provision applies only when you have an LTC, it makes no sense for me to notify them regarding my now non-existent LTC.Originally Posted by LenS
The law may be poorly written, but the net impact is as I stated. If for any reason you need one in the future you can legally be denied due to failure to notify. You can weigh saving $10 in Certified mailings vs. any such potential (and if it were to happen you have to notify every state when applying for renewal that you had been denied and explain it, forever!).
If I were king (which will never happen), MA gun laws would look something like NH's gun laws . . . a total of ~1 page but with VT's "licensing requirement"!
We have met the enemy and he is US!
Nobody ever said it had to make sense. This is MA we're talking about here.
-Mike
"Do this. Don't do that. Stay back in line. Where's tax receipt? Fill out form. Let's see license. Submit six copies. Exit only. No left turn. No right turn. Queue up and pay fine. Take back and get stamped. Drop dead— but first get permit. "
-Robert Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Well, I don't think I am going to notify them of anything. As a citizen of a different state, their gun laws no longer apply to me unless I am physically in the state.
Plus, my imminent and certain denial of a future LTC is one more reason to tell my wife that we can never move back. Not being able to move back alone is the perfect reason not to tell them.
To one guy it's a bug, another it's a feature!
-Mike
"Do this. Don't do that. Stay back in line. Where's tax receipt? Fill out form. Let's see license. Submit six copies. Exit only. No left turn. No right turn. Queue up and pay fine. Take back and get stamped. Drop dead— but first get permit. "
-Robert Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Hey, I will use whatever ammunition and means I can find to avoid ever having to move back to MA. I will change jobs, move to a cave, maybe even get a sex change just to not have to become subject to MA laws (and not just gun laws either) ever again.
Hey, you can take solace in the fact that in MA they would pay for your sex change if you got locked up for failure to notify
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My need to know was twofold. I wanted to know if Mass kept records so if ever the opportunity to prove a gun was at some point registered in MA to perhaps make it legal to transfer instate and also to know if NY, NJ, CA or any other commie state back checked chain of ownership. So many of us are leaving state with our guns that eventually there won't be many or any old guns left. If a gun leaves state and stays on the registered list it should be considered legal forever since it never technically was un-registered and never technically out of state...on paper.
As certain as you are never to return. I wouldn't chance it.
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