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Has anything changed this year in regard to entering the State of MA with a firearm for competition?
Plan to travel from CT up to MA for the USPSA shoot in Monson on Sunday and just want to double check.
Pistol in range bag, with ammo (can mags be loaded?) and locked in the trunk.
LEOs are currently being taught that MGL C. 140 S. 131G is a bogus exemption . . . non-existent as worded, period.
Peter, please read my posts in this thread. I'm certain that I posted a detailed analysis previously. I'm on cell rightnow.
Ok, I've read those, thought this was something new.
The A7 director provided some interesting guidance about 131G on another shooting site recently so thought there might be some new guidance on the topic.
2017 area 7 in MA???
https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?sh...page__view__findpost__p__2719879&share_type=t
Do these laws (namely the ban on high capacity mags and "assault rifles") apply to a RI resident that is passing through MA to go to a RI shooting range?
I live in Providence and would be going to the Tiverton Gun Club. By far the fastest way is using route 195, passing through MA only. Firearams would be unloaded, locked, in cases in the trunk, separate from ammo in passenger cabin.
Thanks
Len's take on the bogosity of the exemption hinges on the requirement that the state "prohibits the issuance of licenses to drug users", and that no state has a blanket prohibition. To the best of my knowledge, no one has ever been jammed up on this - but I also don't know of any one who was found with a gun and used the exemption.
Wesson v, Fowler (the case that established that a minor MJ conviction is not a MA prohibitor) could provide some protection if someone was jammed up by this constraint ... maybe. The state seems to, in practice, not worry too much about that constraint.
The only state actor who was a proponent of this interpretation is no longer with MA govt, and I have not heard any subsequent public official express that position.
What I do commonly see, however, is people coming from states that do not require a license to possess a handgun who expand the exemption (in their mind) to mean "being from a no license state meets the has a license requirement". Nope, doesn't work that way.
Useful info .... thanks.Rob, Glidden discussed this non-exemption to his 200 chiefs/LOs at the seminar he gave in 2014 that I attended. So he is teaching them about this issue.
Rob, Glidden discussed this non-exemption to his 200 chiefs/LOs at the seminar he gave in 2014 that I attended. So he is teaching them about this issue.
Sorry to revive this necro thread but...
I am a NH resident. I want to travel with my over/under shotgun to a gunshop in Natick MA to have a stock fitting. The exemptions I have seen on different pages make mention of hunting and competition, etc, but this is for what I assume would be considered repair. I have a hatchback instead of a trunk, so I would use the Negrini locking case that for it. Am I covered?
Thanks.
That non-existent exemption does not apply to your case.
What does apply is the exemption for low capacity long guns, C. 140 S. 129(p). You are GTG with an over-under shotgun.
For a rifle it would be an FID, but he's relying on being a Virginia resident (and thus exempt). Except he's attending school in Boston, and trusting MA police to follow statutory law instead of common law and court rulings.Wait.
If he’s not got an LTC, what was legal about that? Am I missing something?
For a rifle it would be an FID, but he's relying on being a Virginia resident (and thus exempt). Except he's attending school in Boston, and trusting MA police to follow statutory law instead of common law and court rulings.
He could get seriously jacked up.
Yes, and you have to dive into the comments to see that it was edited. There is no "editor's note" or any other indication in the article that shows it was changed.They added to the story later. An important little mention that he’s got an NR LTC.