Nothing personal. I'm sorry if you felt attacked. I'm sure we'd get along swimmingly. As I said in my (edited) comment -- some animals get preferential treatment, and the rest of us don't like it.
I'm not anti-cop. And I (now) understand your reasoning and need to get a non-res LTC. Please excuse our rudeness at 'assuming' that the reason you even mentioned your ex-LEO status, was that you consider it might/should have any sort of bearing on anything whatsoever. After years of seeing all the shenanigans that happen wrt licensing in MA, I hope you understand our point of view where we might question such things.
But even if you WERE a qualified ex-LEO, we'd be rightfully jealous of your ability to carry in MA and other places, without a license. In our not so humble opinion, there really only ought to be one class of people, none of us who need a license to exercise a Civil Right guaranteed by the Constitution. So if we have to jump through hoops to carry in the Commonwealth, so should everyone else.
Carry on.