Need a green card to shoot a MG in MA - citation please

[MachineHead]

How does this work with MA FFLs where the license says “License to Sell, Rent or Lease Firearms, Rifles, Shotguns, or Machine Guns” sans green card? It’s pretty tough to sell, rent, or lease any of these without at least some form of possession. Levitation?

 

[Tackdriver VillenTactical]

How does this work with MA FFLs where the license says “License to Sell, Rent or Lease Firearms, Rifles, Shotguns, or Machine Guns” sans green card? It’s pretty tough to sell, rent, or lease any of these without at least some form of possession. Levitation?

Are you looking for clarity and consistency on Mass gun laws??

DM

 

[MetalgodZ]

Machine guns, rifles, and shotguns are not firearms under MGL. Handguns, SBRs, short barreled shotguns and sawed off shotguns are. (but sawed off shotguns are specifically banned).

OT from the OP completely at this point, so feel free to PM or tell me to take it to another thread, but with regards to SBRs and short barreled shotguns...

1) With the recent "guidance" regarding SBRs, where does this leave them in terms of legality? Is the consensus now that they are not "assault weapons" based on the fact that the AW definition says (IIRC) "pistol" or "handgun" and not "firearm?"

2) I'm sure you're aware of how certain firearms are manufactured in this state, resulting in things that can't be transferred by dealers. Would this not also cover the construction of a federal "firearm" similar to the Shockwave, assembled in the same way?

 

[JohnZ]

If you read it carefully it says that an unlicensed person can shoot handguns, rifles, shotguns under direct supervision of a person who possesses a LTC. Since a LTC isn't adequate to own/possess a MG, that's why MG isn't in that list and how the AG has ruled even touching one on the wall in a gun shop is a crime . . . punishable by up to life in prison!

Would she have to prove that you knew it was FA before you touched it? Is there something visible on an M16 that distinguishes it from an AR?