Ben Cartwright SASS
NES Member
First I know that in MASS a firearm is a handgun, but let's use it in its common usage as a gun.
I took my pellet rifle to the range the other day and I mentioned shooting it in my backyard, a friend said that a pellet gun is legally a firearm and therefore cannot be fired within 150' of a street or 500' feet of a dwelling and needs to have a trigger lock on it as well when stored.
I think that is nuts, but this IS Massachusetts, what are the laws on Pellet guns?
I took my pellet rifle to the range the other day and I mentioned shooting it in my backyard, a friend said that a pellet gun is legally a firearm and therefore cannot be fired within 150' of a street or 500' feet of a dwelling and needs to have a trigger lock on it as well when stored.
I think that is nuts, but this IS Massachusetts, what are the laws on Pellet guns?