CrackPot
NES Member
I was reading MGL 140 131F on temporary license (aka non resident LTC) and noticed the following language at the end
"A license, otherwise in accordance with provisions of this section, may be issued to a nonresident employee, whose application is endorsed by his employer, of a federally licensed Massachusetts manufacturer of machine guns to possess within the commonwealth a machine gun for the purpose of transporting or testing relative to the manufacture of machine guns, and the license shall be marked ''temporary license to possess a machine gun'' and may be issued for any term not to exceed two years and shall expire in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred and thirty-one."
This is very interesting. If I am my own employer and move to NH I can still get a machine gun license in MA. It is also interesting in that it allows one to get a machine gun license because of being a manufacturer of machine guns. This is not true for a resident but is for a non-resident.
MGL 140 131 says "(o) No person shall be issued a license to carry or possess a machine gun in the commonwealth, except that a licensing authority or the colonel of state police may issue a machine gun license to:
(i) a firearm instructor certified by the municipal police training committee for the sole purpose of firearm instruction to police personnel;
(ii) a bona fide collector of firearms upon application or upon application for renewal of such license."
So if you are a resident you can get a machine gun license from the town in which you reside if you are a bona fide collector. If you are a 07/SOT that is not a reason. But if you are a non-resident, your employer who is a 07/SOT can give you a letter and you can get a non-resident machine gun license.
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"A license, otherwise in accordance with provisions of this section, may be issued to a nonresident employee, whose application is endorsed by his employer, of a federally licensed Massachusetts manufacturer of machine guns to possess within the commonwealth a machine gun for the purpose of transporting or testing relative to the manufacture of machine guns, and the license shall be marked ''temporary license to possess a machine gun'' and may be issued for any term not to exceed two years and shall expire in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred and thirty-one."
This is very interesting. If I am my own employer and move to NH I can still get a machine gun license in MA. It is also interesting in that it allows one to get a machine gun license because of being a manufacturer of machine guns. This is not true for a resident but is for a non-resident.
MGL 140 131 says "(o) No person shall be issued a license to carry or possess a machine gun in the commonwealth, except that a licensing authority or the colonel of state police may issue a machine gun license to:
(i) a firearm instructor certified by the municipal police training committee for the sole purpose of firearm instruction to police personnel;
(ii) a bona fide collector of firearms upon application or upon application for renewal of such license."
So if you are a resident you can get a machine gun license from the town in which you reside if you are a bona fide collector. If you are a 07/SOT that is not a reason. But if you are a non-resident, your employer who is a 07/SOT can give you a letter and you can get a non-resident machine gun license.
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