Is Hellcat no longer MA Compliant??

[FArook]

I was talking to someone at Bass Pro and they told me that the Hellcat is no longer MA Compliant and it was removed from the registry. He said gun stores are returning them, yet I saw two new posts on social media from two different LGS saying they just received some in stock. Was this guy at Bass Pro nuts, or does he know something everyone else doesn't?

 

[Marty McFly]

Who listens to the guy at basspro?

Not meant to be rude. Serious question

 

[Boghog1]

I was talking to someone at Bass Pro and they told me that the Hellcat is no longer MA Compliant and it was removed from the registry. He said gun stores are returning them, yet I saw two new posts on social media from two different LGS saying they just received some in stock. Was this guy at Bass Pro nuts, or does he know something everyone else doesn't?

When people don't know they tend to lie. I'm sure there is a technical term but I don't know it. example I'll ask for permission to metal detecting on a town land and they dufus at town hall will tell me it is illegal. it isn't but saying you can't do something is safer to them than saying you can.

 

[Marty McFly]

When people don't know they tend to lie. I'm sure there is a technical term but I don't know it.

A senate hearing?

 

[FArook]

A senate hearing?

 

[Buck F]

Who listens to the guy at basspro?

Not meant to be rude. Serious question

This. Might as well call the local PD and ask them. They guys at BP know shit about anything. They know their store rules and that’s it. The little older eyetalian guy is the worst. I have overheard some seriously disturbing conversations w noobs buying their first guns there.

 

[drgrant]

I was talking to someone at Bass Pro and they told me that the Hellcat is no longer MA Compliant and it was removed from the registry. He said gun stores are returning them, yet I saw two new posts on social media from two different LGS saying they just received some in stock. Was this guy at Bass Pro nuts, or does he know something everyone else doesn't?

If it's on the list it never gets removed. Now distributors or manufacturers going full retard because they changed one tiny part on the gun, that's a whole different ballgame. Even with that theres shitloads of dealers that will obey the list and not some chicken little distributor or a shitty lawyer from a gun manufacturer....

Protip: stop buying guns from box stores.

 

[LTCRN]

If HC = Hellcat, then once again, the consumer is getting bad advice from a gun store.

https://www.mass.gov/doc/approved-firearms-roster-10/download

https://www.mass.gov/doc/large-capacity-firearms-roster-1/download

 

[drgrant]

OP, this same thing happened with ruger 22s years ago. They changed a tiny part in the mk3 and ruger + distributors shit their pants over it. EOPS refused to remove the guns from the roster.

 

[Marty McFly]

OP, this same thing happened with ruger 22s years ago. They changed a tiny part in the mk3 and ruger + distributors shit their pants over it. EOPS refused to remove the guns from the roster.

We just need to be safe!

 

[Mesatchornug]

If it's on the list it never gets removed. Now distributors or manufacturers going full retard because they changed one tiny part on the gun, that's a whole different ballgame. Even with that theres shitloads of dealers that will obey the list and not some chicken little distributor or a shitty lawyer from a gun manufacturer....

Protip: stop buying guns from box stores.

It's also possible that there are like 4 SKUs of which 1 is accepted and BassPro ordered a different SKU then freaked out when they realized it.

 

[drgrant]

It's also possible that there are like 4 SKUs of which 1 is accepted and BassPro ordered a different SKU then freaked out when they realized it.

Under the "substantially similar" clause they're probably all legal, but pant shitter box stores won't take that risk, regardless of how tiny it is.

 

[FArook]

This made no sense to me when he said it. I pushed back and said why is it on the approved list and he said it was removed. For some reason I can't find the 2023 list online, only the 2022 and for the record, I was there for fishing and always stop by the gun counter to chat. Need to rethink that strategy moving forward.

 

[greencobra]

we don't need no stinking compliance list...we got the mill.

 

[LTCRN]

Under the "substantially similar" clause they're probably all legal, but pant shitter box stores won't take that risk, regardless of how tiny it is.

Especially after what the RAT bastard did to bASS Pro!

 

[drgrant]

This made no sense to me when he said it. I pushed back and said why is it on the approved list and he said it was removed. For some reason I can't find the 2023 list online, only the 2022 and for the record, I was there for fishing and always stop by the gun counter to chat. Need to rethink that strategy moving forward.

I've never heard of a single handgun ever being removed from the roster. Distributors and some dealers like the big packs of pacifiers/binkies/diapers handed out by the manufacturers annointing a gun as being "MA legal for sale", that's a whole other thing vs wether or not it's legal on the ground in the real world.

 

[FArook]

If HC = Hellcat, then once again, the consumer is getting bad advice from a gun store.

https://www.mass.gov/doc/approved-firearms-roster-10/download

https://www.mass.gov/doc/large-capacity-firearms-roster-1/download

Yes it does. I just googled the model numbers on the rosters and both are Hellcats. WOW, what an embarrassment for for that company telling people stuff that is so wrong.

And thanks for the links.

 

[Marty McFly]

Yes it does. I just googled the model numbers on the rosters and both are Hellcats. WOW, what an embarrassment for for that company telling people stuff that is so wrong.

And thanks for the links.

Happens all the time.

 

[Mtn_Guy]

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[DW357]

Shop local…

WTS - PRICE REDUCED-again Hellcat 3" 9mm w/ upgrades

Springfield Hellcat 3" pistol in very excellent Trigger upgraded to Powder River Precision (by a gunsmith) now the trigger is nice. Shield RMSc metal/glass sits directly on the frame and co-witnesses with original sights. This is the "Glock" model with higher quality electronics. Grip tape in...

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This. I’ve never bought a gun from a big box store and don’t plan to.

 

[LTCRN]

Yes it does. I just googled the model numbers on the rosters and both are Hellcats. WOW, what an embarrassment for for that company telling people stuff that is so wrong.

And thanks for the links.

After being here for a while, you learn to take what gunshop employees and cops say in regards to firearms laws with a grain of salt!

 

[PaulR]

But, make sure after you buy local, to come here and bitch that you overpaid by $30, make a scene and exclaim you hope that bastard goes out of business.

<flame suit on>

 

[RIFLEMAN1000]

S&W had to resubmit the A22 because they changed the Grips , so who knows in the State!

 

[pitbullsoldier7]

I was talking to someone at Bass Pro and they told me that the Hellcat is no longer MA Compliant and it was removed from the registry. He said gun stores are returning them, yet I saw two new posts on social media from two different LGS saying they just received some in stock. Was this guy at Bass Pro nuts, or does he know something everyone else doesn't?

thats like taking repair advice from a autozone cashier

 

[Roadglide]

Just had a dealer in MA tell me hellcat is compliant but the pro isn’t.

 

[IPSC_DRL]

Just buy whatever you want!

 

[Ron Jablonski]

Just had a dealer in MA tell me hellcat is compliant but the pro isn’t.

Ask a different dealer, they're out there. Springfield sells the pro with 10 rounders for ban states.

 

[Rick O'Shea]

Lost me at Bass Pro,..

 

[Roadglide]

Ask a different dealer, they're out there. Springfield sells the pro with 10 rounders for ban states.

I found one in Walpole