I would be of the opinion that there would be nothing wrong with bringing the guns in, or selling them, but I bet conspiring to do so, before the fact, on this board in a blatant attemt to circumseed state law COULD be against the law.
Now I'm not Scrivener or Cross-X...they went to school for this, but somewhere in the back of my mind a bell is going off.
What say you counselors?
Remember this: the purpose of these regulations is to protect consumers from the clutches of supposedly evil gun dealers who might try to take advantage of us by foisting off dangerously constructed, easily defaced guns upon we, the unsuspecting consumer-purchasers.
If, on the other hand, we should purchase guns from another consumer, rather than from a sneaky gun dealer, it is a level playing field, as the transaction is occurring not between a dealer and a consumer, but rather between two consumers deemed to have equal knowledge and bargaining power.
Neither the Attorney General nor his consumer protection regulatory enforcement henchmen can have any say as to whether what we buy from a private individual has tamper resistent serial numbers, has survived a drop test, or meets the several other standards that handguns sold by gun dealers in Massachusetts must.
So, to answer your question, there is nothing wrong with working within, or around, Massachusetts' consumer protection regulations by asking someone to lawfully purchase a gun while he is a resident of a free state and then buying such a gun from him once he moves to and establishes residence in Massachusetts then sells that gun privately to you as one of his up-to-four-private-sales-per-year via an FA 10.
This is an utterly lawful transfer, and no consumers, or small animals, would be harmed. Futhermore, the Attorney General has no dog in that race, because no sale occurred between a blackhearted Massachusetts gun dealer and a hapless, unsuspecting, supposedly easily victimized firearms consumer.
"Don't worry, ma'am, it's legal!"
Darius Arbabi