Opinion ID: 199885
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The Roster of Large Capacity Weapons

Text: 12 To ensure that its prohibitions are clarified as needed, the Act provides that the Secretary of the Executive Office of Public Safety (Secretary) shall publish and distribute a roster of weapons which fit the statutory definition of large capacity weapons. Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 140, § 131 ¾. The Secretary has compiled and published the roster. The roster is presently available on the web site of the Executive Office of Public Safety. 1 The first roster was issued on October 14, 1998, one week before the effective date of the Act. 13 The roster is not intended as an exhaustive list of weapons deemed large capacity under the terms of the Act, but it does list dozens of weapons considered large capacity weapons under the Act. Executive Office of Public Safety, Large Capacity Weapon Roster Effective February 15, 2002. The Secretary also prefaced the roster with clarifications of some elements of the statutory definition of large capacity weapons, including the terms capable of accepting and readily modifiable to accept a large capacity feeding device. Id.