How to transport a gun through Massachusetts?

[theQman23]

Hello guys,
The Mass police FINALLY sent the gun back to MD, after a four week run - around involving my having to write letters to release the gun, paying their favorite local in MAss the FFL fees and shipping money, requiring the letter be notarized, etc. etc. etc. It cost me ANOTHER $150 in expenses to get my own gun back. Then, when I went to pick the thing up in MD, my gun dealer told me I don't have to wait another seven days because I already owned the gun, but he had to call in a nics check before he could hand it over. No sweat I thought, the case has been dismissed, and was disposed on Dec 17th. So he called in the nics check, and they delayed me. They didn't turn me down, they "delayed" my pickup of the gun. Any ideas what is going on with this?
Thanks
-Quentin

 

[SSN Vet]

Checked the NH non-resident permit lately....

it's $100 bucks there as well

but that gets you 4 years

 

[xmanpike]

You people are all nuts. Move to TX, AR, AL, IN, AZ etc etc etc. No worries then mate.

 

[NinjaFeint]

You people are all nuts. Move to TX, AR, AL, IN, AZ etc etc etc. No worries then mate.

Except for the part where I don't have a desire to live in those states...

I bring my guns to the S&W range to shoot and have never had an issue. People in CT have been saying the MA cops are on a rampage with people transporting firearms lately. I will probably bite the bullet and get a MA permit. The issue is the 10 hour class required not the money. I can justify the 100 bucks a year and add it to my 140 dollar membership for S&W and call it $240 dollars a year to have unlimited use of a real nice indoor range.

 

[zoom6zoom]

Checked the NH non-resident permit lately....

it's $100 bucks there as well

but that gets you 4 years

It was only twenty bucks until they raised it this summer.

 

[theQman23]

Hello everyone, am I glad to report that I FINALLY GOT MY GUN BACK!!!! My baby Glock is back in my night stand, and safe and sound. The ATF people called the libs in MASS and said, "hey, is he cleared, or not?" and of course they had to legally release me, because no conviction could be stuck. So the ATF and/or the nics people, (I'm not sure of the legal relationship between them, or if they are the same folks or not,) but anyway they called my gun shop and told them to release it to me yesterday. I would have came straight home to bragg to the whole world, that YES, if you are a lawful gun owner and have followed the laws, it IS IN FACT possible to get the MASS state police to return a confiscated gun, but instead I went to the range to shoot my old trusted sidearm. She felt so good in my hands.
I received the gun in fairly nice condition. They did shoot it, there were powder marks in the barrel, but they replaced the little plastic slide cover with a brand new one. There were magic marker numbers all over everything and they obviously shot it to get ballistics and/or case info off of it, but that is of no consequence to me. I just wanted it back in good condition. Though they irritated me to no end, and were rude to hold my gun as long as they possibly could with hoop after hoop after hoop of bull-ya, the end result is that I did finally get it back, it was in as good or better shape than I left it, and she shoots exactly as she did before.
I still incurred a few thousand dollars in legal expenses, and another $150 to get my own property back, but in the end, my name was cleared, and they had to return my gun. The legal system worked, justice was done, even though I realize that financially nothing gets done for free and it was a very, very expensive lesson.
I pray God Bless, and you all shoot safe.
-Quentin

 

[NinjaFeint]

Good to hear. I would have to the range too if I had just got my Glock back after such an extended absence.

 

[LenS]

I bring my guns to the S&W range to shoot and have never had an issue. People in CT have been saying the MA cops are on a rampage with people transporting firearms lately. I will probably bite the bullet and get a MA permit. The issue is the 10 hour class required not the money.

NinjaFeint,

As the other gentleman in this thread found out, MA is NOT very gun-friendly. MGLs do NOT allow someone to bring handguns INTO MA (not transversing the state) for purposes of going to a gun range (exception allows for a "competition" but it must be an organized event) UNLESS you possess a MA NR LTC. It's a felony otherwise that you are risking.

The training requirement does NOT demand a 10 hour course. There is a list of state-approved courses and Home Firearms Safety is one of them . . . this typically runs 4 hours with the MA law supplement included. The course is a "one-time thing" needed only to get your first LTC. HOWEVER last Fall they implemented a program that REQUIRES a personal interview in Chelsea MA in order to process your NR LTC. It is currently unknown if this is a "one-time thing" or will have to be repeated for each renewal. My suspicions are that it will be required each year, but only time will tell.

 

[SSN Vet]

Quentin,

Thankyou for sharing your experiences with the failed state of Massachusettes. You serve your Lord well and give them more grace than they merit.

Massachusettes serves as a snapshot of everything that is wrong in this country.

My wife has several relatives that live near Boston and the whole culture seems to be one of working the system and finding a way to suck of the govenrments fountain of taxpayer money.

Unfortunately, many, many MA residents are moving to NH and ME where the economy is better (due the the lack of socialism) but then they bring with them their brain dead, misguided MA ways and work to make northern New England as rotten as the failed state they fled from.

There is a "special" name used around these parts for MA transplants. I don't use it myself as it is rather vulgar. But I understand why others do.

My symphathies to those trapped in the western two thirds of MA. Perhaps Boston will some day be cut adrift into the sea and you'll be free again.

 

[Zip7]

Here's a more heartwarming story. Some years ago, I was driving through Mississippi on I-20. I am a resident of LA, but I pass through MS all the time going to visit my mother. This particular time, it was not during hunting season, so I didn't have an arsenal with me - just an old ruger single six - loaded - under the drivers seat in a holster.

So I'm driving down the interstate in the right lane about to take the next exit when a local police patrol car pulls up in the left lane on my bumper and stays there for a half mile. When my exit came up I took it, and he swerved in behind me and pulled me over.

Well, he asked me for my license, etc. and asked if I minded if he looked in my vehicle. I was driving an older single cab pickup. I said I didn't mind, but heads up - there is a pistol under the driver's seat and it's loaded. He takes it out, out of the holster, fiddles with it a minute and tells me that the hand needs replacing. I reply that I know that, but it shoots fine if you are reasonably careful with it. I told him I planned to send it back to ruger, etc... we talked about the gun for a few minutes, how old it was etc. He hands it back to me and I put it back under the seat.

Then he tells me that the reason he pulled me over was that they had some kind of tip on someone they were looking for that was driving the same type of vehicle I had, and when I took my exit without a turn signal, that was kind of suspicious. But, he said once he saw from my license that I was from Louisiana, the no turn signal thing made sense - he bid me good day and I went on about my business.

And that is why these stories about MA and NJ just seem so totally whacked out to me. Where I live you can ride around with a loaded glock on the dash if you want to. I have at least one handgun in my vehicle about everywhere I go. The south is just awesome.