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Boston has highest number of licensed gun owners in state
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I just bought a place in Boston. I hope I also get no restrictions in 5.5 years when I have to renew...although the plan is to be out of the city in 3-4 years.I assure you that I am not a cop, a doctor, a lawyer, nor am I politically connected in any way.
SKS and Mini are good to go. I've never heard of anyone getting denied an AR purchase because of Boston residency - it's perfectly legal for a Bostonian to own one, they just can't keep it in the city; sounds like a lame fuddy FFL.
What I was told, is that his purchase was delayed (he usually gets delayed, we think it's because a serial killer has his last name), and then it was denied. When it was denied he was told because he lives in Boston. That's what he told us.
He was never denied a handgun purchase and now he lives in another state and wasn't denied an AR (although he was delayed again).
Came here to post this.
Population by town
Boston city *(capital) 617,594
Worcester city 181,045
Springfield city 153,060
Lowell city 106,519
Boston has the most issued LTCs? NO FRICKEN WAY! Sensational article is sensational
I was not denied. I follow all laws.
The Boston AWB ordinance is specific to possession within the city limits by residents only. It doesn't apply to nonresidents or to Boston residents' property kept outside the city.
Not all dealers understand this and some won't even sell a 'gray area' M&P15-22 because no one knows if it counts as an AR pattern under the city AWB ordinance, despite mechanically being very different and even having Obergraufenfurer Healey state in her current decree by FAQ that .22s aren't an "AW".
Also, since it was mentioned, people keep renewing FIDs for pepper spray because they use it as a second form of ID or it's free for the elderly over 70. Also doesn't help that a lot of LEOs in MA are still ignorant about the change to the law in 2014.
Not all dealers understand this and some won't even sell a 'gray area' M&P15-22 because no one knows if it counts as an AR pattern under the city AWB ordinance, despite mechanically being very different and even having Obergraufenfurer Healey state in her current decree by FAQ that .22s aren't an "AW".
Also, since it was mentioned, people keep renewing FIDs for pepper spray because they use it as a second form of ID or it's free for the elderly over 70. Also doesn't help that a lot of LEOs in MA are still ignorant about the change to the law in 2014.
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What? A gun shop employee that doesn’t know what they are doing? TEOTWAWKI.
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ah...and the kid, i didn't get his name, was on again this morning and iirc, his quoted figure was 99.8% or close to it.
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Amherst has so few. LOL No, I'm not surprised. But they have 10% of what Taunton has.
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Because their parents basements are in other cities and towns.
Nah, it's much less work to sit at their computers and criticize than to go to a rally or the statehouse.
Nah, it's much less work to sit at their computers and criticize than to go to a rally or the statehouse.
Garys
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Someone was bullshitting someone. A denial is not based on city of residency, it's based on something in the applicants criminal history record.
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That kids, (Hogg) father is a FBI agent assigned to the Miami office. Which is the office that got at least two detailed calls regarding Cruz being a potential school shooter. Which they ignored. The kid (and his father) are just making up shit to cover up for the abject failure of the FBI to do it's job.
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Boston ha
Boston has a much higher population than other cities. They have more automobile accidents as well. What are these reporters trying to prove that we don't already know?
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Wait wut? lolz no on both claims... Or, to be specific, we can't store them in the city, we can buy and own them all day long on Unrestricted MA licenses...and I assure you, I am not connected.
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An ADA told me they might charge someone with the AW weapon charge just to hold them until they could charge them with something else. But they had no plans to prosecute anyone under the law because they feel it is unenforceable and would be challenged.
Politicians don’t care because they have the piece of paper. No one has been shot with a long gun of any type for several years, at least.
Not suggesting anyone break any laws.
Garys
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One of the "perks" of working the overnight shift downtown was seeing all the young women walking around in skimpy outfits during the warm weather.
Let me correct that to just "the young women" because some of them should definitely avoided skimpy outfits.
Let me correct that to just "the young women" because some of them should definitely avoided skimpy outfits.
Chevy 2 65
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But no ammo
Uh... it's all in green surplus cans from what I've seen. Whether or not it will still go bang after being stored in basements, attics, and garages with seasonal humidity and temperature changes is another story.
The Commonwealth in its smugness in 1998 had no idea the consequences of their f***ery. 1.2 million license holders didn't just have their hardware disappear. It just stopped being recorded. Cheryl Jacques and company created a massive underground armory without thinking about it. All that gear is getting quietly passed down in families, off the books, and kept out of sight. Probably more than half to three quarters of the guns in the state are off the books to non-current license holders because the legislature was too busy jacking each other to country club donor money to understand their scribbles in the MGL meant f*** nothing to a large number of people.
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Excellent point !
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