From: pat@rwing.UUCP (Pat Myrto)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: Waiting periods and rights
Date: 29 Jul 92 10:44:48 GMT
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In article <1992Jul24.051942.22743@athena.mit.edu> sybok@athena.mit.edu (The Rifleman) writes:
>   ... [ previous notes, responses, and (presumably MA regs) deleted ] ...
>
>  3. You CANNOT purchase handguns or ammunition for handguns with
>     merely an FID card.  You CANNOT carry a handgun outside your
>     residence or business with merely an FID card.

How about COMPONENTS?  Would a LTC be required to get primers, bullets,
in pistol calibers and weights, bullet molds in pistol calibers for
those who wish to cast their own?   Not all components are specifically
'pistol', propellant, for example - many handgun loads are made with
what is labelled 'shotgun powder' or even 'rifle powder' marked on the
cannister.

>Also, someone mentioned that you can't be charged for illegal possession
>of firearms in your home without an FID if you are not there.  I'm
>not sure on this.

If its the Peoples Republik of Massachusets being discussed, I would not
be surprised if you would get charged with most anything if powers-that-be
are not fond of you - for nothing else than to cause you the considerable
expense and time required to fight the charge (or be given a 'break' and
get a no jail time probation sentence, plus the usual baggage of having
any kind of felony conviction).  What I have heard about MA (heresay,
admittedly) is all bad, nothing good as far as gunowners are concerned.
Didn't they even have in the past some law where one was required to flee
from an attack, even if it meant abandoning your own home, rather than
harm an attacker/invader?  Only if you could not get out, as in cornered
in a room could you even consider the option of endangering the attacker's
health?

Perhaps a MA resident could clarify what rights one has recognized in
that state, and what rights one has if they are travelling through the
state to an event or destination in some other state regarding firearms.
I have even heard of folks getting arrested during an airline flight
changeover, when the security folks see a firearms tag on checked luggage,
noting that it contains a handgun in condition with FAA regs for checked
luggage, and use it as evidence to arrest the passenger for having an
unregistered/unlicensed handgun, in violation of Bartly-Fox (I think),
resulting in loss of the gun, much money spent in legal fees to beat
the charge.  How about someone DRIVING through?  Or must one drive/have
flights AROUND or avoiding the state to be at all safe?

Come to think of it, the McKlure-Volkmer law (what was actually made law)
notwithstanding, can one even travel without fear of arrest if any kind
of handgun is among their belongings?  What about liftback cars, etc?

Thanks - the subject of MA just rekindled these questions in my mind...

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