Massachusetts Legislature Suspends New Training Requirements

SBR said:
They will say it is to hard to figure out who has had new training and who hasn’t. Due to this all renewals after (date they finally have a requirement) will need the new training to renew.
Just my opinion.
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It's six years until renewal.

I think there is a better-than-even chance this law will change drastically before six years have passed. I think it's likely those changes will come as the result of a SCOTUS ruling or two, but there could be other reasons too. Either way, I don't think it's a done deal that anyone will ever actually have to cross this mythical training hurdle.
 
I also received this email today. The intent is obvious if you were not licensed before 8/2/2024 and you took the current training and got your LTC or FID after 8/1/ 2024 you will have to take the new training if you want to renew your licence. It is just one more way the state can discourage gun ownership in the state. This is the worst screwing this state can do to new firearms licensee's give it to them and then a way to take it away.
 
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JDL said:
I also received this email today. The intent is obvious if you were not licensed before 8/2/2024 and you took the current training and got your LTC or FID after 8/1/ 2024 you will have to take the new training if you want to renew your licence.
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Respect for using the British English spelling of the noun form of "licence" (The verb form in British English is the same as the US spelling)

But you're wrong. If that's what the legislature (who actually makes the laws) meant, they would not have had the immediately following clause:

... provided, however, that persons possessing a firearms identification card or license to carry firearms prior to the
implementation of live firearms trainings as required in this section shall also be exempt from such requirement.
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There's clearly an exemption – the same exemption as the first group gets – for another group of people who get their LTC or FID before "live firearms trainings" are implemented.

The only reason this clause makes any sense at all, is with the assumption that there's a possibility that "live firearms trainings" might take longer to implement than all the rest of the crap that's in the new 131P.
 
Palladin said:
This says it all....these a$$holes passed a law, which would have demanded specialized training, without any clue if that training was even available at the time.
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I'm going to have to disagree because I personally informed them, at one of the "hearings," that no such training exists. I then explained to them that I could be so confident about this because, in another capacity, I work with folks who have trained MA LE on many of the topics they're looking to require us to teach.

They knew; they didn't care; they kept it in and passed it anyways.
 
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