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i live in NH and just found an old Mass FA ID card from about 1980s when i last lived there - there is no date on it and no expire date either - is this still 'good'? not that im heading there soon or anything..
So if you enter into a contarct with an entity and pay them earnest money (the $2 fee the original FID cost), this other entity can just say the contract is null and void whenever they want. What if everything worked that way? It's good to be King I guess.
So if you enter into a contarct with an entity and pay them earnest money (the $2 fee the original FID cost), this other entity can just say the contract is null and void whenever they want. What if everything worked that way? It's good to be King I guess.
I don't think a lot (or at least not enough) of gun owners were paying attention back in 1998.
Sorry but it seems that you never read the history of what REALLY HAPPENED! It's been posted here many times. Those that lived thru that period with their eyes open know that 5 people totally re-wrote the bill in secret over a few days, House/Senate leadership declared "no debate" and threatened each legislator individually with loss of chairmanships (which impacts salary, number of staff and size/location of office, etc.) if they FAILED to vote FOR the bill as re-written!! [Some of the above info was told to me by one of my legislators, a person known to me for ~15 years at that time, he read the bill, voted NO (and he's a total anti-gun person) and subsequently was moved to a tiny office in the basement of the State House (down a barely lit corridor)!]
I think expiring the old FID cards was wrong and dumb.
Having said that, in trying to understand what happened, it's easier to think of FIDs, not as contracts, but licenses (which is what they were).
Every license issued by a licensing authority can be expired or revoked. There was a law on the books that defined how to get an FID and what the FID covered.
That law was replaced by a new law that created a new process and a new fee structure.
Governments do it all the time to keep bureaucrats busy, raise 'revenues', or alter how much control they have over us.
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When I got my first FID back when they first came out, I made a point of asking if this was a license to own a firearm. I was told that it is not a license it just identified me as a firearms owner. I know that I pissed the Boston police officer off whith all my pointed questions, but what the hell it was another rights violation. I've been fighting this fight a very long time and the erosion just keeps on rolling. I owned a few rifles and shotguns then and no handguns. I can remember buying guns through the mail. They used to advertise them in all the sporting magazines up untill 1968.
I just had this discussion with someone that had an FID from the 80's and I told him it was invalid despite the "no expiration date" thing. He didn't believe me until he took his LTC class and they told him it was useless.
I hear you.
I can also remember seeing rifles advertised in comic books and offered as 'prizes' in those solicitations to get you to sell greeting cards (i.e. 'win' a rifle for selling XX boxes of cards).
The times sure have changed.
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