I am a MA resident, with a class A unrestricted LTC. I’m trying to buy an H&K P2000 9mm through a private sale from a friend who is a non FFL dealer (private party) in Texas. It is my understanding that although the weapon is not on the MA approved handgun roster, the sale can be made as long as the proper transfer paperwork is filed with MA, and that basically the approved handgun roster only applies to firearms that can be sold by licensed dealers in MA, and therefore would not prevent a private sale of a gun that is not on the roster. Could someone with a working knowledge of MA regulations chime in on this please?
Thanks very much in advance!!

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It’s an honest question.

There were 1,074,757 gun purchases through licensed FFL dealers last month. 9,076,205 for this year. Over a million a month.

And how do you gun banners propose getting all of them? And how do you explain that gun crime rate has been going down over the past couple decades? And why is it that the crime rate is higher in cities and state where regulation is strict compared to states with more lax laws?

And can you answer this one simple question:

Can you demonstrate one time or place, throughout all history, where the average person was made safer by restricting access to handheld weapons?

I don’t expect people to try and answer that question. Or answer it directly.
Only 17% of weapon that are taken from the drug cartels are traced back to the US.

The ATF has said the 90% of the guns that are given to them from Mexico to trace are from the US. But that is about 18% of the total guns recovered and most are handguns. The other 72% don’t have American markings or American serial numbers.
Therefore that 72% is never given to the ATF to trace because it is obvious they don’t come from America.
And before someone calls it out my mistake its 82% of the total seized guns that are known to not be American.

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Curious if anyone has ever purchased a firearm online, if so what website? What process do you have to go through? I’m a little confused on the whole get your FFL dealer to fax their license with your name on it to the website. Any help is appreciated.

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Gun Control, law concerning limits on the possession and use of firearms. All countries have restrictions on some firearms, which vary according to the history of the nation and its circumstances: in the United States, for example, its constitution provides for the right to bear arms. Though American legal scholars dispute the meaning of the constitutional provision, it has been used—together with a long history of private gun ownership—to resist strict firearms control in the United States. European countries have stricter laws. In the United Kingdom the police are generally unarmed and guns are seen to have little place in civilian life, except for some leisure purposes.

In the United Kingdom it is an offence to possess a firearm or a shotgun without a certificate from the police. Firearms certificates are granted if the applicant has good reason to have one, and presents no danger to public safety or the peace. People who have been sentenced to three years or more in prison, and those of intemperate habits or unsound mind, may not be granted certificates; a certificate may also be refused on any other reasonable grounds. Shotgun certificates are more easily obtainable, but the applicant still needs a good reason for having one: they are most usually used in shooting sports. An applicant refused a certificate may appeal to the Crown Court.

Certain particularly dangerous firearms are prohibited, such as most rifle weapons with automatic function or loading, all kinds of explosive or noxious munitions, and disguised firearms. Authority to hold such weapons may be granted by a government minister, most commonly to those involved in theatre and cinema productions, for signalling flares on ships and aeroplanes, or to certified museum curators. Significant restrictions are placed on their movement and storage.

There are a number of weapons for which no certificate is required, such as starting pistols for athletics, miniature rifles on fairgrounds, and air weapons up to a certain power. In certain circumstances it is not an offence to use a shotgun lawfully held by somebody else, for example, when shooting on private property.

Other firearms offences that may be committed regardless of whether the offender holds a certificate or not include carrying a loaded shotgun or air weapon in a public place, and carrying a firearm together with ammunition, whether or not the firearm is actually loaded. Shortening the barrel of a shotgun is illegal: “sawn-off” shotguns are a favoured weapon of bank robbers. Dealing in firearms is only permitted by a licensed dealer, who must have

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I’m a United States citizen, raised in Massachusetts, lived most recently in California. I have a valid California driver’s license but I now go to school in Louisiana. Do I need to get a Louisiana ID before I can purchase I firearm? Or is it just as easy as walking into any gun dealer in Louisiana with my California ID and buying a gun? I’ve never owned a gun before, so I’m new to this whole thing.

What about get a concealed firearms license?
Or transport it around in a car?
Or even carry it around?

I know it’s not legal for a FFL dealer to sell you a handgun unless you are 21, but I have heard that your dad or grandpa could sell you one, or even a friend could sell you one.

I have passed a firearms safety course also.

I can’t seem to find anything on it in the RCW:

http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=9.41

Thanks!!!

He opposes raising taxes, but has no problem raising "fees." Some high lights or low lights depending on who you ask include or would have included…
Also under Romney’s plan, the state Department of Mental Retardation would have charged a fee of 0 to determine a client’s eligibility and the Department of Public Health would have charged for initial tuberculosis tests. Another 0 fee would have been assessed for those who tested positive. Those proposals were ultimately rejected.
Prisoners also would have paid more. Romney’s plan would have hiked the cost of a phone call from behind bars to from 86 cents. The price is still 86 cents.
Under Romney’s plan for Massachusetts, the cost of registering firearms would have jumped from to . He also called for increases in the cost of firearm identification cards, application fees for a license to carry firearms, and gun dealer fees.
In all, then-Gov. Romney proposed creating 33 new fees and increasing 57 others — enough, he said, to pull in an extra million for the cash-strapped state.

"It’s a shell game," said Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. "He can still say he didn’t raise taxes, but fees are taxes by another name. It’s a trick."

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