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Owning bayonets on pre-ban AR-15s in Massachusetts.
- Thread starter thousm
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No issues if it was configured to accept a bayonet prior to 9/13/94.
Yes, if the above conditions are met.
The only statewide blade length regulation I am aware of regards switchblades..."Whoever, except as provided by law, carries on his person, or carries on his person or under his control in a vehicle...any knife having an automatic spring release device by which the blade is released from the handle, having a blade of over one and one-half inches" (M.G.L. c.269 s.10(b)), though various municipalities have enacted ordinances regulating knives.
knucklehead
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Boston has an ordinance on blade length and carry, here it is.
Boston Municipal Code of Ordinances
16-45 PROHIBITING THE CARRYING OF KNIVES OR SIMILAR WEAPONS.
16-45.1 Carrying of Weapons Prohibited.
No person, except as provided by law, shall carry on his person, or carry under his control in a vehicle, any knife having any type of blade in excess of two and one-half (2½ ) inches, ice picks, dirks or similar weapons that are likely to penetrate through police officer's ballistic vests, or other object or tool so redesigned, fashioned, prepared or treated that the same may be used to inflict bodily harm or injury to another, except:
a. When actually engaged in hunting or fishing or any employment, trade or lawful recreational or culinary activity which customarily involves the carrying or use of any type of knife, or
b. In going directly to and/or returning directly from such activities, or
c. If the knife is being transported directly to or from a place of purchase, sharpening, or repair, and if packaged in such a manner as not to allow easy access to the knife while it is being transported.
Boston Municipal Code of Ordinances
16-45 PROHIBITING THE CARRYING OF KNIVES OR SIMILAR WEAPONS.
16-45.1 Carrying of Weapons Prohibited.
No person, except as provided by law, shall carry on his person, or carry under his control in a vehicle, any knife having any type of blade in excess of two and one-half (2½ ) inches, ice picks, dirks or similar weapons that are likely to penetrate through police officer's ballistic vests, or other object or tool so redesigned, fashioned, prepared or treated that the same may be used to inflict bodily harm or injury to another, except:
a. When actually engaged in hunting or fishing or any employment, trade or lawful recreational or culinary activity which customarily involves the carrying or use of any type of knife, or
b. In going directly to and/or returning directly from such activities, or
c. If the knife is being transported directly to or from a place of purchase, sharpening, or repair, and if packaged in such a manner as not to allow easy access to the knife while it is being transported.
No ARs in Boston either!!
To legally possess one in Boston (as a Boston subject), one must have a special (issued one time only in 1986) Boston AW permit. Nobody moving in after that date can possess any AWs per Boston's definition. Their City laws are posted here in a sticky posted a number of years ago. I think that the knife law was also posted in a sticky.
