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The proper solution to the restriction issue is NOT necessarily to pressure places like Brookline to rollover, since that's a game of whackamole.
The FRB has already made changes in response to the legal environment:
1. It updated their system to include nationality and naturalization # to their database (not sure if any of this is displayed on the LTC)
2. It changed "Reason for Issuance" when the ambiguity of "Reason for issuance" was raised
So:
- As a stopgap measure, the FRB should issue all LTCs with "Restrictions: None" until they can have the software modified to remove this restriction from the LTC
- Remove the restrictions from the MIRCS license issuance portal and, as an interim measure, inform PDs that all submissions will be processed as "Restrictions: None" no matter what is selected
- Establish that current restricted LTC holders may obtain a reprinted license without the restriction at no cost, with no need to pretend the license was lost/stolen.
Unlike certain other parts of the state machinery, the FRB has always been professional and straightforward with their dealing, and I have not seem them work to further a particular agenda on the gun issue - Public requests are promptly replied to, and they acted swiftly once the Federal court ruled permanent resident non-citizens were LTC eligible.
The Comm2a team will be meeting in the near future, and I will be raising this issue.
The FRB has already made changes in response to the legal environment:
1. It updated their system to include nationality and naturalization # to their database (not sure if any of this is displayed on the LTC)
2. It changed "Reason for Issuance" when the ambiguity of "Reason for issuance" was raised
So:
- As a stopgap measure, the FRB should issue all LTCs with "Restrictions: None" until they can have the software modified to remove this restriction from the LTC
- Remove the restrictions from the MIRCS license issuance portal and, as an interim measure, inform PDs that all submissions will be processed as "Restrictions: None" no matter what is selected
- Establish that current restricted LTC holders may obtain a reprinted license without the restriction at no cost, with no need to pretend the license was lost/stolen.
Unlike certain other parts of the state machinery, the FRB has always been professional and straightforward with their dealing, and I have not seem them work to further a particular agenda on the gun issue - Public requests are promptly replied to, and they acted swiftly once the Federal court ruled permanent resident non-citizens were LTC eligible.
The Comm2a team will be meeting in the near future, and I will be raising this issue.
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