Mike, i bought some of those mini-shells... 1.5"
a remington 870 with a 3 round tube will hold 5 of those, by the letter of the law, pretty much every shotgun in MA is illegal, unless it's an OU, side by side or single shot....
interpretation on the ground and dealers ignoring things is one thing.... but the way the law is written is bad....
that doesn't make it invalid or unenforceable....
It does, actually, because it creates a situation where a defense lawyer can make a mockery of the state during an attempted prosecution. Do you really think the state is going to create a compelling argument in that environment? The law is so vacuous that it's a pile of garbage in this particular case.
this is something we need to get fixed...
Not really, nobody cares about it, and nobody has ever been prosecuted for it... and I doubt anyone ever will be, unless they change the law dramatically in a more negative way. This is one of those things that even when Guida was around he didn't make a big deal out of.
-Mike
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