Guide to gun rights in your Massachusetts town

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Here is a town list, type your town and the color and someone will make the edit. Although we will do our best to keep this list accurate and updated as always your local issuing officer has the last say. This list is compiled from the experiences of NES members.

Bold Green usually Issue "Class A" "All Lawful Purposes"

Bold Red May Issue and/or are difficult to obtain a "Class A" "All Lawful Purposes" usually give out restricted such as "Sport and Target"

Cities in Bold Black are almost Impossible or impossible to Obtain a "Class A" usually issue a "Class B" or "FID"

Cities in Blue are still awaiting member feedback at this time.

Cities in Orange have conflicting or inconsistent information or experiences.

***Important*** If you did a search on your town, the software will default it's color to RED (this is the softwares way of highlighting it). Please don't use the forum software to search a town.


Abington
Acton
Acushnet Formerly red
Adams May give out ALP on renewal.
Agawam
Alford
Amesbury
Amherst
Andover
Aquinnah
Arlington
Ashburnham
Ashby
Ashfield
Ashland
Athol
Attleboro
Auburn
Avon
Ayer
Barnstable
Barre
Becket
Bedford
Belchertown
Bellingham
Belmont
Berkley
Berlin
Bernardston
Beverly
Billerica
Blackstone
Blandford
Bolton
Bourne
Boxboro
Boxford
Boylston
Braintree
Brewster
Bridgewater Formaly red Read this And this and this too
Brimfield
Brockton
Brookfield
Brookline
Buckland
Burlington
Cambridge
Canton
Carlisle
Carver
Charlemont
Charlton
Chatham
Chelmsford
Chelsea
Cheshire
Chester
Chesterfield
Chicopee
Chilmark
Clarksburg
Clinton
Cohasset
Colrain
Concord
Conway
Cummington
Dalton
Danvers (May issue A or B for first time apps)
Dartmouth
Dedham
Deerfield
Dennis
Dighton
Douglas
Dover
Dracut
Dudley
Dunstable
Duxbury
East Bridgewater
East Brookfield
East Longmeadow
Eastham
Easthampton
Easton
Edgartown
Egremont
Erving
Essex
Everett
Fairhaven
Fall River
Falmouth
Fitchburg Unknown at present
Florida
Foxborough
Framingham
Franklin
Freetown
Gardner
Georgetown
Gill
Gloucester
Goshen
Gosnold
Grafton
Granby
Granville
Great Barrington
Greenfield
Groton
Groveland
Hadley
Halifax
Hamilton
Hampden
Hancock
Hanover
Hanson
Hardwick
Harvard
Harwich
Haverhill
Hatfield
Hawley
Heath
Hingham
Hinsdale
Holbrook
Holden
Holland
Holliston
Holyoke
Hopedale
Hopkinton
Hubbardston
Hudson
Hull read this
Huntington
Ipswich
Kingston
Lakeville
Lancaster
Lanesborough
Lawrence
Lee
Leicester
Lenox
Leominster
Leverett
Lexington
Leyden
Lincoln
Littleton
Longmeadow
Lowell
Ludlow
Lunenburg
Lynn
Lynnfield
Malden
Manchester-by-the-Sea
Mansfield
Marblehead
Marion
Marlborough
Marshfield
Mashpee
Mattapoisett
Maynard
Medfield
Medford
Medway
Melrose
Mendon
Merrimac
Methuen
Middleborough
Middlefield
Middleton Red at best
Milford
Millbury
Millis
Millville May issue a restricted LTC the first go around
Milton
Monroe
Monson
Montague
Monterey
Montgomery
Mount Washington
Nahant
Nantucket
Natick
Needham
New Ashford
New Bedford At the moment we have conflicting information on this town
New Braintree
New Marlborough
New Salem
Newbury
Newburyport
NEWTON
Norfolk
North Andover
North Attleborough
North Brookfield
North Reading
Northborough
Northbridge
Northfield
Northampton
Norton
Norwell
Norwood
Oak Bluffs
Oakham
Orange
Orleans
Otis
Oxford
Palmer
Paxton
Peabody
Pelham
Pembroke
Pepperell
Peru
Petersham
Phillipston
Pittsfield
Plainfield
Plainville
Plymouth
Plympton
Princeton
Provincetown
Quincy
Randolph
Raynham
Reading
Rehoboth
Revere Inconsistent info on this city
Richmond
Ripton
Rochester
Rockland
Rockport
Rowe
Rowley Issues B to first time applicants.
Royalston
Russell
Rutland
Salem
Salisbury
Sandisfield
Sandwich
Saugus
Savoy
Scituate
Seekonk
Sharon
Sheffield
Shelburne
Sherborn
Shirley
Shrewsbury
Shutesbury
Somerset
Somerville
Southbridge
South Hadley
Southampton
Southborough
Spencer
Southwick
Springfield
Sterling
Stockbridge
Stoneham
Stoughton
Stow
Sturbridge
Sudbury
Sunderland
Sutton
Swampscott
Swansea
Taunton
Templeton
Tewksbury
Tisbury
Tolland
Topsfield
Townsend
Truro
Tyngsborough
Tyringham
Upton
Uxbridge
Wakefield
Wales
Walpole
Waltham
Ware
Warren
Wareham
Warwick
Washington
Watertown
Wayland
Webster
Wellesley
Wellfleet May give out restricted Class A's for young & first time applicants
Wendell
Wenham
West Boylston
West Bridgewater
West Brookfield
West Newbury
West Stockbridge
West Springfield
West Tisbury
Westborough
Westfield
Westford
Westhampton
Westminster
Weston
Westport
Westwood
Weymouth
Whately
Whitman
Wilbraham
Williamsburg
Williamstown
Wilmington
Winchendon
Winchester
Windsor
Winthrop
Woburn
Worcester
Worthington
Wrentham
Yarmouth

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Leominster -- Green

[Weer'd Beard]

Belmont, Red (possibly Black: I was TOLD that when I renew they MIGHT grant an ALP...but you know how far I trust that)

[C-pher]

Ok, everyone in North Attleboro that I know...they only put ALP on thier app and they've all gotten it, including myself.

So I would say that we're green as well.

[daceman63]

Maynard renewed me ALP no problem all the time ( July 2004 and it's still the same chief and SGTs) but I have no idea of new applicants.

[DR]

First, a request: can the folks supplying their experience state when it happened? It would be good to know how up to date the data are.

I had no trouble in Bedford. First license, no extraneous crap required, and the only reason I listed was "All Lawful Purposes". This was in January 2004.

[C-pher]

Well, just renewed in April and still only listed ALP. So I would say pretty up to date for North.

[tele_mark]

I got my LTC-ALP last December, first try, first time applying.

Oh -- my sister got hers in Hubbardston -- ALP -- so Hubbardston is green also.

[dreppucci007]

Burlington is most certainly Green

[Chris]

Bolton First application in the town must meet with the chief.

My Very first LTC under the Chapter 180 rules came from Acton (I was so lucky to have my old one expire at just the right time. At that time Acton was Green and the License Authority said that to keep things simple it was Class A ALP or nothing. Things might have changed. BTW, that first LTC was number 103.

Before that I was in Ashland, but Tom Kinder was my Football coach, and Robert Gonfrade used to hang out and hunt with my best friend's dad. (^_^) Kinda made the whole license thing a moot point. (^_^) So glad i'm not in that town now, I hear that Melnik is as corrupt as mumbles.