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What happens in MA when you use a firearm in self defense? do the cops take all your guns, or just the gun used in self defense? What if you own guns, but did not use a gun in self defense?
Who decides the confiscation of all guns of someone involved in a home defense shooting? The local Chief of police or someone else.
Chief of police.
If I am involved, do they confiscate my wife's guns too, or only mine?
EVERYTHING in the house, regardless of who owns it!
Do they pull my wife's permit too, or just mine?
Just yours.
How long does it take to get them back?
Usually forever gone or very close to that.
Where do they get stored?
Other than "evidence gun", all others usually will go to a bonded warehouse, hence why they are gone forever. Read all about it in Jarvis v. Village Vault on www.comm2a.org
Do they also take my government issued duty weapon?
Everything in the house or under your control. It will be up to the two gov't entities to duke it out over any gov. owned weapons.
Is this also done in MA if the shooting happens outside MA in the performance of duty or just in MA not duty related?
If you are involved, you can count on this happening regardless of where the event happened. Only exception likely would be if you were operating as a LEO, then they would usually only take the gun used.
I really don't know why I still live in this shit hole.
jeez this makes me wonder if keeping all your ar15 uppers not designated for SD separate from the lowers and storing them somewhere else off property is a good idea. at least your uppers wouldn't be confiscated.
Excellent idea if you like being charged under C. 269 S. 10, felony for non-disclosure on suspension/revocation of a LTC.
What happens in MA when you use a firearm in self defense?
Confiscation:
I think that the new gun law that past said that after the police take the guns, you can have a FFL come and pick them up within 10 days.
Couldn't you authorize someone on your behalf to take control of your firearms if they had a FID or LTC?
Confiscation:
I think that the new gun law that past said that after the police take the guns, you can have a FFL come and pick them up within 10 days.
True. but nothing in the law prevents the PD from turning them over to their favorite Bonded Warehouse IMMEDIATELY!!
Len, any chance you could expound on my first post (uppers separated from lowers)? I edited my OP with hypotheticals.
They come with a list of ALL guns ever registered to you and expect to find all of them (including those you sold years ago). If you hold anything back or lie, and they figure it out (and many LEOs are pretty good of smoking out BS), you will get prosecuted for failure to turn over everything, it's a felony. How lucky do you feel . . . theoretically?
Unbelievable. Simply un-f*kkin-believable. Just unfrigginreal. Meanwhile, one of the GUYS that I work with asked me for a ride to Sullivan Square MBTA last week, at 7pm, on a beautifully "warm" (for November) evening and it's only a very short walk. But he's "a little nervous" about walking in this area, cuz "it's Somerville and there's a lot of bad people around here at night"....
But if I walk it, and get surrounded by three of them with knives, and the one who is most effed up on weed/pills/heroin/whatever decides "Aw, screw it. I'm just gonna shank the muthaf*kka anyways", and I produce my G26 and fire and....my life as I know it ends?
Unreal. Simply Un-f*kkin-f*kkin-real
really? I understand you wouldnt want to do that with the firearm used in the actual HD situation. But what about your other ARs not used? Even if you leave the lowers themselves inside your house? I would figure since the lower receiver is what is considered the firearm, the uppers (not considered a firearm) are a non issue.
Hypothetical speaking of course:
what if you had four ar15s in your house. No other guns. One is used for home defense. The other 3 are fun guns.
What if a week or two prior to a home defense incident at your dwelling, you take the uppers from 3 of your fun ARs and put them in your car trunk or say you take them to a friend's house for storage. Then a week later, the HD scenerio happens and your HD AR is used.
the LEO show up. They confiscate the complete HD AR that was used in self defense and also confiscate the 3 lone ar lower receivers. Would you need to disclose the existence of the other 3 uppers?
Yup, I'm more afraid of the repercussions of using my gun for self defense than the encounter....
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Every situation will be unique. There is no guarantee that the worst case scenario being harped on here will occur.
Civilians have used guns for self defense and defense of others in Massachusetts and not been prosecuted.
Mike
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They come with a list of ALL guns ever registered to you and expect to find all of them (including those you sold years ago). If you hold anything back or lie, and they figure it out (and many LEOs are pretty good of smoking out BS), you will get prosecuted for failure to turn over everything, it's a felony. How lucky do you feel . . . theoretically?
This and more.Every situation will be unique. There is no guarantee that the worst case scenario being harped on here will occur.
Civilians have used guns for self defense and defense of others in Massachusetts and not been prosecuted.
Mike
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even when the upper receivers are not registered? for the lowers I get it; those are on the books, but for 3 uppers? for all they know, those 3 uppers could have been sold months ago for cash.