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No sooner had Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signed a sweeping new firearms bill into law last month than gun rights activists filed a lawsuit challenging it, calling the measure an “historic ...
BOSTON — A new gun law banning untraceable "ghost guns" and enhancing the "Red Flag Law" went into effect earlier this month when Gov. Maura Healey signed an "emergency preamble" enacting it ...
The National Rifle Association is suing the state of Massachusetts over the new gun bill Governor Maura Healey signed into law last week.
All Massachusetts residents who sell, transfer, inherit, or lose a firearm are required to report the sale, transfer, inheritance, or loss of the firearm to the Firearms Records Bureau (FRB) within the state's Department of Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) by filing an FA-10 form. [23] Massachusetts enacted a red flag law in 2018. [24]
The Bartley-Fox Law was co-sponsored by, and named after, Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives David M. Bartley and retired judge J. John Fox. [1] [2] The text mandates a one-year prison sentence for anyone convicted of possession of a firearm without a license in the state of Massachusetts, [3] [4] and added two years to the sentence of anyone convicted of committing a crime ...
Gun laws in the United States regulate the sale, possession, and use of firearms and ammunition.State laws (and the laws of the District of Columbia and of the U.S. territories) vary considerably, and are independent of existing federal firearms laws, although they are sometimes broader or more limited in scope than the federal laws.
The Massachusetts House approved a sweeping gun bill Wednesday aimed at tightening firearm laws, cracking down on unregistered “ghost guns" and strengthening the state’s assault-style weapons ban.
[1] [2] The Code of Massachusetts Regulations (CMR) is the canonical compilation of regulations promulgated by state agencies pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act and is updated through the Massachusetts Register. [1] Both the Code of Massachusetts Regulations and Massachusetts Register are published by the secretary of the ...