FA-10 locating help

[Sprocket]

Went down to the PD (Wakefield) for a few FA-10 forms - Officer said they don't have any nor does the state send them to the PD anymore...

He further stated I should go to a local shop and get them there.

Now right down in the MA laws section it says the PD can order them.

Can somebody tell me where I can find a few FA-10's on the North Shore?

Another PD perhaps? The shops I've called won't give out their forms...

 

[Franco]

call CHSB in Chelsea, you will have as many forms as you want in your mailbox within a couple day.

 

[danboSMASH]

Marlborough PD has some same with Wayland PD
Sudbury was out as of 8/25 said they were on order.

 

[Len-2A Training]

The PDs have to order them (free to them and you). If they don't order them, the state doesn't send them automagically.

Call CHSB, tell them what you were told by Wakefield PD and have them send some to you AND the PD.

 

[ochmude]

Which number do you call at CHSB (main number, FRB, etc.)?

 

[Sprocket]

Thanks All,

2 phone call to the CHSB were unanswered - Love those automated systems...

Long shot request: If someone is going to the Harvard Appleseed and has a form they could spare, I'd appreciate it greatly.

LenS - Yes, great idea I'll do that.

 

[JonJ]

I have one for you Todd. Looks like I'm OK for the weekend. Danny isn't going to be as bad as they had hyped it.

 

[ASHDUMP]

Where do gun shops get their FA10 form from? Same place the PD gets them from? Can anyone request these forms from where ever they come from?

 

[ochmude]

Where do gun shops get their FA10 form from? Same place the PD gets them from? Can anyone request these forms from where ever they come from?

Check out this post in the Massachusetts Gun Laws thread. It's one of the stickies at the top.

 

[jdubois]

Long shot request: If someone is going to the Harvard Appleseed and has a form they could spare, I'd appreciate it greatly.

I've got one I could give you, if JonJ doesn't make it. I'm not going to the Appleseed, but it'd give me an excuse to get out to the range .

 

[MST_2009]

Lynn PD has them. Call first though, I think the woman who handles it is there on Thurs.

 

[KMaurer]

Dealers have to pay for theirs, pre-printed with their information. Individuals and police departments get theirs without any charge by asking for them.

Ken

 

[Bugs100]

CHSB has posted on their web site that due to lay offs that they are now going to stop answering phone calls from the public.

 

[deadhead133]

Picked up a couple the other day at the Stoneham PD.

 

[Rob Boudrie]

Dealers have to pay for theirs, pre-printed with their information.

Dealers who use the on-line MIRCS system fill out the FA-10 on-line and then print a hard copy with the entered data - they won't have any FA-10 forms, just blank paper.

 

[Bill Nance]

Chelmsford PD always has them. We usually pick up half a dozen at a time.

 

[C-pher]

Where do gun shops get their FA10 form from? Same place the PD gets them from? Can anyone request these forms from where ever they come from?

Shops have to order them at 25 cents each I believe. I do know that they are numbered for that store...so I don't think that they will give them to you.

And, most shops are doing electronic FA-10s...so what they have on hand seem to be slim for when the system goes down.

 

[C-pher]

Dealers who use the on-line MIRCS system fill out the FA-10 on-line and then print a hard copy with the entered data - they won't have any FA-10 forms, just blank paper.

SO, when the system goes down...they just stop selling guns?

 

[jdubois]

SO, when the system goes down...they just stop selling guns?

Yeah, they usually have a few on hand for such situations. They're supposed to get individual permission from the CHSB for each transaction they perform not through MIRCS (per 803 CMR 10.07). I believe they call in any non-electronic transactions (yes?), which I assume acts as the permission.

 

[Wonder Bread]

Wilmington PD has them as well. Stopped by this afternoon and picked one up.

 

[ItalianBostonian]

I have a bunch of them, if anyone wants some shoot me a PM.

 

[MetalgodZ]

Resurrecting this thread...

Worcester has none, Charlton has none, Leicester has none, Milford has none, and CHSB won't return calls. I hate to ask to purchase them from a shop both because the shop has to pay (and by extension, so do I) for a form that I should be getting for free and because I'm presumably reducing their stock of forms for when their online system is down...but it's kind of hard to follow the law when nobody has the damned forms.

So...Where the heck can I get these?

 

[ochmude]

I literally just hung up with CHSB. Someone picked up on the first ring. I asked him for some FA-10 forms, and he took my info to send them out. I did the same thing about 2 months ago and got 4 of them in the mail a week later. Are you calling (617) 660-4782?

 

[MetalgodZ]

I literally just hung up with CHSB. Someone picked up on the first ring. I asked him for some FA-10 forms, and he took my info to send them out. I did the same thing about 2 months ago and got 4 of them in the mail a week later. Are you calling (617) 660-4782?

Nope - calling 617-660-4600, the number that two PDs recommended that I call. Trying your number now...

ETA: Took me 3 rings, and they said they'll send them out...
...and I should get them in a month or a little more, once they order them, have them printed, and ship them out.

So the question remains, where do I actually pick one of these up when I need one?

 

[ochmude]

Nope - calling 617-660-4600, the number that two PDs recommended that I call. Trying your number now...

Yeah, that's the main number. The one I posted is for the FRB. I've only called twice, but someone picked up immediately both times.

 

[ochmude]

Bummer. Well, at least you'll be getting a little stash at some point in the future.

 

[atilla]

no answer just now. which one of you is already on the phone with them?

 

[MetalgodZ]

Group buy on FA-10s?

That was intended as joking, but on a serious note...what exactly stops us from doing a group buy on triplicate carbon copy forms identical to FA-10s?

 

[atilla]

well i just got a lady on the phone that said they were "on order" and to "call back in three weeks".

sounds just like the IRS when i'm checking the status on my tax refund... that i filed six weeks ago...

 

[ochmude]

According to the lady I talked to last time, they limit you to 4 each time you call, but there's no limit to how many times you can call. So once you get yours in the mail (whenever in the future that may be), call again and order up some more. That's how I plan on building up a little reserve.