But any of the three have to meet: which has substantially similar requirements to those in section 11 of chapter 131, as determined by the colonel of the state police
No...don't think so, again..its how you read it. There is nothing that i can see with OR being in there that says all 3 have to pass colonel of state police scrutiny, just the last one.
First off a NR hunting license and Resident Hunting License are EXACTLY the same except for pricing.....non one can refute that and it would pass any Statie COP scrutiny easily.
You can argue B wouldn't be the same as a MA resident hunting license...but......again...it is NOT worded that way. And How the F would Statie COP know how to figure that one out??
To me it reads this way......
A. Non Resident Hunting license OR
B. Resident Hunting License State of Residence OR
C Permit lawfully issued from State of Residence which has substantially similar requirements to those in section 11 of Chapter 131 as determined by colonel of the state police.
So if you have C....like I have a FL CCW........Id go with it might not be any good unless Mr State Police bigshot OK's it. Since to my knowlege there is no OK for any other state permits to carry in MA and there is no reciprocity, nor do I see them going out of their way to get any.............. yeah...your probably not gonna go with C. However, amazingly I do think the intent of this wording is for the State Police to OK you if you do have an out of state CCW. Not that is likely to happen, but the door is open for it.
Reality is....how this is worded if you have A OR B your fine, or A AND B....your fine and this whole thing is pantshitting due to reading failure. The only reason I give slight Fxck about this is because Im a non resident who MIGHT hunt there.