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Here's the situation: A friend of mine recently relieved a family of some firearms - old, questionable functioning firearms, from the family's father. From what I gather, they are old, rusted, bolt action .22's that probably wouldn't function without some serious repair anyway.
Currently, these guns are registered to my friend. The family keeps asking if its possible for them to get at least one back to put in a display case as a keepsake/memory of their father, but he couldn't give them an honest answer. He posed the question to me, and I have no idea. No member of the family has any interest in obtaining an FID/LTC.
Is it possible, in Ma, to somehow render the firearm useless, ie - plug the barrel, remove the firing pin, hell, even spot weld the bolt shut, simply to put it in a case and hang on the wall of a home without a license holder? That is, when is a registered firearm no longer considered a firearm in the eyes of Ma legislature?
Thanks in advance.
Here's the situation: A friend of mine recently relieved a family of some firearms - old, questionable functioning firearms, from the family's father. From what I gather, they are old, rusted, bolt action .22's that probably wouldn't function without some serious repair anyway.
Currently, these guns are registered to my friend. The family keeps asking if its possible for them to get at least one back to put in a display case as a keepsake/memory of their father, but he couldn't give them an honest answer. He posed the question to me, and I have no idea. No member of the family has any interest in obtaining an FID/LTC.
Is it possible, in Ma, to somehow render the firearm useless, ie - plug the barrel, remove the firing pin, hell, even spot weld the bolt shut, simply to put it in a case and hang on the wall of a home without a license holder? That is, when is a registered firearm no longer considered a firearm in the eyes of Ma legislature?
Thanks in advance.