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Lol. No. I was expecting that.Is your “friend’s” name Maura by any chance?
Ahh, so there IS a registry!A friend is doing an audit of his firearm collection. Is there a way for him to find all his guns in the MA registry?
A friend is doing an audit of his firearm collection. Is there a way for him to find all his guns in the MA registry?
1. Yes.A friend is doing an audit of his firearm collection. Is there a way for him to find all his guns in the MA registry?
If you know how many guns you have, it means you need to buy more.If he doesn't know how many guns he has...
He belongs on NES.
Just get your ltc suspended and you'll find out what the state thinks you have. No charge.
Exactly! I say it a little differently: "If you can name every gun you own, you probably don't have enough"!If you know how many guns you have, it means you need to buy more.
I thought if you moved into MA, you could bring most things (off-register, but not outright prohibited) but you had to "register" them?OP ... for your "friend" and anyone else that might be wondering... here is why the records are wrong:
Example 1:
- sell a gun, later you buy it back. The record might show you own the gun twice.
Example 2:
- move to MA with 20 guns. Buy 3 guns in MA. Now you own 23 guns, the records show you own 3.
Example 3:
- buy 1 gun in MA. Move out of MA and buy 5 guns. Sell the gun you bought in MA, move back to MA with the 5 guns you still own. The record shows you own 1 gun you don't really own and because you sold it in a free state, there is no proof of the sale.
Example 4:
Maybe you registered a build with caliber X, then decided caliber X was lame and used the lower for caliber Y. The record shows you own a gun with caliber X not Y.
I can keep going ...
So, as I said above, stop worrying about what the MA database shows.
If "your friend" is pretty sure he lost a gun, he needs to contact an attorney ASAP.
You don't need to register anything when moving to MA.I thought if you moved into MA, you could bring most things (off-register, but not outright prohibited) but you had to "register" them?
Ha!!! Len has posted on this in the past. Rumors of the number of blue cards destroyed have been greatly exaggerated.Another example, you are old enough to have had guns sold to you on the old "blue card" and the records were lost in a flood at a state building decades ago. I still have a few "onion skins" in my files.
Who among you are old enough to know what that is?
The state “allows you” to register them if you choose to. There is no requirement to do soI thought if you moved into MA, you could bring most things (off-register, but not outright prohibited) but you had to "register" them?
No change. Since you MUST register guns within 7 days of the gun coming into MA . . . and it takes MONTHS to get a LTC (so that you could register those guns), they made an exemption whereby you do NOT have to EVER register the guns you moved into MA with!You don't need to register anything when moving to MA.
Did that change?
I still have onion skins as well. You are off-track however wrt destroyed records.Another example, you are old enough to have had guns sold to you on the old "blue card" and the records were lost in a flood at a state building decades ago. I still have a few "onion skins" in my files.
Who among you are old enough to know what that is?
Yes, I spoke to none other than the first director of what became FRB, Ham Perkins (who is also a gun person) and got the straight scoop from him in a FTF conversation some years ago. 30K blue cards destroyed and over 1Million records computerized. I'll leave it to others to figure the odds on this.Ha!!! Len has posted on this in the past. Rumors of the number of blue cards destroyed have been greatly exaggerated.
Nothing personal to anyone here, but the stupidist thing one can do is to register what isn't required by law or trying to correct errors in their database.The state “allows you” to register them if you choose to. There is no requirement to do so
Here’s something to think about.Lol. No. I was expecting that.