Before ANYONE moves ANYWHERE in this 'CommonPuke of LiberChusetts' based on the gun laws/rules/restrictions/etc etc in the town they're thinking of moving to, stop and consider this: What happens when Chief 'Green' in whatever town you're moving to retires, or moves to a job in another town, or had kissed the proper ass and/or made some 'wise contributions' during the last election cycle and gets appointed to some huge Fed job etc etc....and the new guy or gal the town hires is named 'Chief Red'... (and you've just spent your life savings moving, uprooted your family etc etc etc to get the hell out of the town where Chief Green retired)....
(As
@drgrant sez) the last I heard, in the PRM no town's chief
gets to enact a gun policy that's at strong variance
from the selectmens'/mayor's desires.
If the board are anti's, they won't hire a Green chief,
and they won't renew his contract if a Red chief
takes a Hillsdale College constitution course
and comes down with a severe case of Religion.
If the board are not doctrinaire,
and gun owners keep coming out of the woodwork
at Every Freaking Board Meeting to bleat about Mah Sivil Rites,
they're gonna tell the Chief to keep
his Nazi tendencies to himself
and stop making work for them, lest his contract be short and ugly.
My town's in the middle of a search for the replacement for
the second Green chief in a row (after the Reddest one you can imagine).
Perhaps as few as only one of the selectmen is a gun guy.
However a notorious former selectman failed in his re-election bid
after pushing for an assault weapon ban
because of ill-health: the voters got sick of him.
My fingers are crossed that the board knows a third rail when they step on it.
Most shit towns are shit because of a prevailing attitude by the mayors office or the PD etc.
^ This.
I have heard at least one LEO say a reason for not giving an unrestricted to someone who just moved in and is looking for a first license is to cut down on town shopping. I am not sure I believe most Chiefs worry that much about someone moving in for a year to get an unrestricted and then moving to the red town they want to live in, but it could happen.
That's just an excuse, or the chief is an empty chair who derives his self-worth
from what the other chiefs think of him at the MCPA "fraternity" meetings.
There are too many pure green towns for any chief with a spine not to flick off criticism
about unrestricted LTCs from whatever raging orifice tries to chat him up over it.
Has anyone had a license down graded from unrestricted to restricted in the same town?
It happened to me for two weeks in Somerville. They went to correct a misspelling of my name ...
(Sounds like Somerville outed themselves there).