State Senator Jarrett Barrios, a committee co chair, said a registry exists,
but it is not enforced and needs vast improvement. Also, no mechanism
exists, he said, for monitoring guns "sold off the radar screen, because
there's no investigation to make sure people are actually registering there
guns . . . The issue is there's nobody enforcing the person-to-person sales."
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/11/21/gun_court_eliminates_years_of_backlog/
but it is not enforced and needs vast improvement. Also, no mechanism
exists, he said, for monitoring guns "sold off the radar screen, because
there's no investigation to make sure people are actually registering there
guns . . . The issue is there's nobody enforcing the person-to-person sales."
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/11/21/gun_court_eliminates_years_of_backlog/