Hi,
I'm in the process of applying for my LTC in Waltham, MA.
My wife is hard anti-gun. (She was... a little upset when I told her I was going to be applying for an LTC.)
She feels she would be stupid not to also learn how to use a gun if they are going to be around the house (and told me that she hates that I'm going to "make" her learn how to use a gun). So she is going to be doing the safety courses or whatever MA requires along with me.
What I'm wondering about is what the implication are if she doesn't want to apply for an FID/LTC.
I am worried about situations like:
Let's say I have an unloaded handgun in a locked container in my car, parked at home. If she borrows my car for whatever reason, my understanding of the MA laws is she would be in trouble for driving with the handgun in the car. But, my understanding is that the container must not be accessible to her either... i.e., if I gave her a copy of the key, that might get her or me in trouble too, if she doesn't have an FID/LTC? I would think the best thing for her to do would be to let me know she is going to borrow the car, I tell her to move any firearms from the vehicle to an appropriate locked container in the house, and then take the car. Is that (accessing container, carrying the firearms, all while staying on our private property) legally a gray area for either of us?
If a home defense situation comes up and the gun comes out, but I am then incapacitated somehow, would she be in any legal trouble for using the gun without an FID/LTC? (I'm hoping the laws aren't quite that draconian... but there seems to be a lot of stuff in MA law that seems ridiculous to me, coming from VA.)
I'm in the process of applying for my LTC in Waltham, MA.
My wife is hard anti-gun. (She was... a little upset when I told her I was going to be applying for an LTC.)
She feels she would be stupid not to also learn how to use a gun if they are going to be around the house (and told me that she hates that I'm going to "make" her learn how to use a gun). So she is going to be doing the safety courses or whatever MA requires along with me.
What I'm wondering about is what the implication are if she doesn't want to apply for an FID/LTC.
I am worried about situations like:
Let's say I have an unloaded handgun in a locked container in my car, parked at home. If she borrows my car for whatever reason, my understanding of the MA laws is she would be in trouble for driving with the handgun in the car. But, my understanding is that the container must not be accessible to her either... i.e., if I gave her a copy of the key, that might get her or me in trouble too, if she doesn't have an FID/LTC? I would think the best thing for her to do would be to let me know she is going to borrow the car, I tell her to move any firearms from the vehicle to an appropriate locked container in the house, and then take the car. Is that (accessing container, carrying the firearms, all while staying on our private property) legally a gray area for either of us?
If a home defense situation comes up and the gun comes out, but I am then incapacitated somehow, would she be in any legal trouble for using the gun without an FID/LTC? (I'm hoping the laws aren't quite that draconian... but there seems to be a lot of stuff in MA law that seems ridiculous to me, coming from VA.)