Not that you'll believe this, but the Fed Ban from 1994-2004 was codified in MGL in 1998, so MA has effectively had the ban in place since 1994.
I'm outta here! I try to educate people that want to learn, I gave up arguing with people who don't want to learn a number of years ago.
all i know about is the fed ban and the romney ban, i've already said in this thread i don't know what went on in MA before '04 WRT a state ban...
please educate me, show me where a pump action shotgun with a tube capacity of more than 5 rounds is exempted.
because i've been up and down chapter 140 and i can't find it.
just because dealers sell them, doesn't mean anything, how many threads on this forum do members tell other members to not look to dealers or law enforcement for what's legal and what isn't legal? hey, i can show you five guys at the next Plymouth gun show selling brand new cproducts 30 round AR mags that are "pre ban"
i'm not saying i'm the only one who knows what the law is, maybe i'm the only one
not saying "hell, no one has been prosecuted for this, must be GTG"
maybe G.O.A.L. should work on getting this issue resolved before someone IS prosecuted under it? because i'd hate for it to be me.....
ETA: and not to get away from the point of why i originally posted tonight....
i don't want to tell a guy his gun is legal when according to the letter of the law, it isn't....
shotgun holds more than 5 rounds, bought brand new at k-mart in '98 (along with some 200 count cotton sheets and some nice corningware i'm sure) all the fudd gun shops in MA selling them to this day aren't going to change what's written in the law....