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Website in MA to view guns you own?
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You have to download the from from the Licensing Bearou - print it out. Get it notorized. Send it in.
They'll mail you what they have on file.
I would never break the law but if it's not on the list - they don't know you own it.
If it's on the list you may not own it either.
When they come to confiscate and your unknown guns are in NH at the Chalet - contact a lawyer before bringing them back to Massachusetts to deliver to the police.
I am not a lawyer.
They'll mail you what they have on file.
I would never break the law but if it's not on the list - they don't know you own it.
If it's on the list you may not own it either.
When they come to confiscate and your unknown guns are in NH at the Chalet - contact a lawyer before bringing them back to Massachusetts to deliver to the police.
I am not a lawyer.
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I was just curious I thought we were discussing this I was curious cause I logged on to the licensing one and it wasn’t there. I probably dreamed it up.
I think I was thinking about how they all got leaked or maybe it was the gun owners and what they have. I don’t remember.
namedpipes
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There was a database "leak" a couple years ago. With some supplementary databases that are available to law enforcement, it's pretty easy to get a solid picture of your ownership.
Whether any LE agency would bother to is another debate. If they want to know about you, they know about you.
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Wow, that was incredibly easy. The hardest thing was to get my printer to work.. wonder what response time will be no rush.
That was the leak I was referring to if I remembered it was accurate for some, but the older you were or the more transfers you were involved in the less it was
I do a lot of reading on a lot of things I find interesting but I don’t store it in the old brain bucket.
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Solid picture of your ownership
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....Im not in MA anymore but say I was.....do they have taken off the list the 20 or so guns I traded/sold to KTP or wherever dealer thru the 35 years of living there as a licensed gun owner.Nothing solid about any list MA has. Us old timers have guns that would probably show up on that list that we sold/traded/disposed of years ago, that we probably forgot we ever owned. Its a joke. Ownership to me...means I own it currently....not had owned it...and don't own it....yet its still on the list that I own it? That's wrong.
All that list shows is that you bought a gun in MA, and maybe if you sold it/traded it to an in state dealer, or person in state via FA-10...MAYBE it takes you off as an owner.....not even sure of that. They probably keep both of you owning it for christ sake.
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Agnotology
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If you have friends in your local PD who don't mind doing you a favor, have them run your driver's license. They will see every gun you've ever had "transacted" to you, since calling it EFA-10's a registration is technically wrong.
Dennis in MA
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Solid picture of your ownership
Nothing solid about any list MA has. Us old timers have guns that would probably show up on that list that we sold/traded/disposed of years ago, that we probably forgot we ever owned. Its a joke. Ownership to me...means I own it currently....not had owned it...and don't own it....yet its still on the list that I own it? That's wrong.
All that list shows is that you bought a gun in MA, and maybe if you sold it/traded it to an in state dealer, or person in state via FA-10...MAYBE it takes you off as an owner.....not even sure of that. They probably keep both of you owning it for christ sake.
That's why the NEW law is a registration. You HAVE TO tell them what you own. Now, a process to remove them if you KTP them??? Yeah, the Wealth of the UnCommons will still jam you up even if KTP could prove they bought the gun from you. LOL
Oh, and F them. Their stupid registration (and the current system) are unconstitutional. They'll lose BOTH when the new law is challenged (and appealed, etc.,. . . . or hte SC rules first) in federal court.
I tried requesting it once. After waiting a month they sent the paperwork back stating I needed to send a check. They must have lost it. You could still see the holes from the staple that held my check to the paperwork. 
JDL
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Nothing gets removed. My 30 years of gun purchases except for the ones on paper and I am not talking about FA10's the pre FA10 paper all show up. I have hundreds of gun transfers listed under my name and none that were sold in state person to person, in state FFL's and out of state FFL sales are not removed.Solid picture of your ownership
Nothing solid about any list MA has. Us old timers have guns that would probably show up on that list that we sold/traded/disposed of years ago, that we probably forgot we ever owned. Its a joke. Ownership to me...means I own it currently....not had owned it...and don't own it....yet its still on the list that I own it? That's wrong.
All that list shows is that you bought a gun in MA, and maybe if you sold it/traded it to an in state dealer, or person in state via FA-10...MAYBE it takes you off as an owner.....not even sure of that. They probably keep both of you owning it for christ sake.
namedpipes
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Solid picture of your ownership
Nothing solid about any list MA has. Us old timers have guns that would probably show up on that list that we sold/traded/disposed of years ago, that we probably forgot we ever owned. Its a joke. Ownership to me...means I own it currently....not had owned it...and don't own it....yet its still on the list that I own it? That's wrong.
All that list shows is that you bought a gun in MA, and maybe if you sold it/traded it to an in state dealer, or person in state via FA-10...MAYBE it takes you off as an owner.....not even sure of that. They probably keep both of you owning it for christ sake.
Massachusetts does not CARE how many guns you own or even how many ghost guns you have hidden away. Just whether you have any at all. (no - transferring a gun out of your possession doesn't remove the fa10 record of transfer)
I'll bet they have a better picture of the guns in the population than we would care to realize and probably a much better picture than your neighbors.
DPR
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The leak a few years ago included a lot of info in it and it was fairly easy to put 2 and 2 together to map the data back to a person.
They have scrubbed some fields, but they still publish transfer/transactions
They have scrubbed some fields, but they still publish transfer/transactions
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This..there is no outbound at all, to dealer, or in state, or person to person. ..........so basically....FA-10 could essentially be called a record of purchases.....
For those that are doing a transfer and think they are outbounding........there is no real transfer taking place, the record now shows as 2 people owning the same firearm.
Of course this is all null and void once you and the firearms leave MA.
No, unfortunately, only shows your buys - not your sales. If you buy 25, and subsequently sell 10 over time, the listing will still show the 25 buys. No reflection/reduction of the 10 sold.Solid picture of your ownership
Nothing solid about any list MA has. Us old timers have guns that would probably show up on that list that we sold/traded/disposed of years ago, that we probably forgot we ever owned. Its a joke. Ownership to me...means I own it currently....not had owned it...and don't own it....yet its still on the list that I own it? That's wrong.
All that list shows is that you bought a gun in MA, and maybe if you sold it/traded it to an in state dealer, or person in state via FA-10...MAYBE it takes you off as an owner.....not even sure of that. They probably keep both of you owning it for christ sake.
El_Guapo77
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When this shit hole state doxed every gun owner a few years back you could get an excel file with information it didn't list your name but you could look up by town and what you efa 10'd up to that point
EJFudd
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... AND subsequent eFA-10's for guns you previously owned that were resold within MA if the transfer was recorded.
namedpipes
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If the gun was accurately described in the form and it was actually scanned and not lost in the flood, etc., then if they search the database by gun, they find two, dated transfers and discard the older (or prosecute both for the heck of it**). If they search your name they'll see the gun belonging to you and if they search by his name they'll also see the gun belonging to him.
** @Len-2A Training - didn't you once tell me a Tale of Two Murder Trials, where Mass convicted two different people of the same murder? Maybe it was a lesser crime or even a movie, but somehow, I remember hearing the story in your voice.
As mine did
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I don't recall any case like that.
namedpipes
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I'll chalk that up to my faulty recollection then
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But I'll bet Mass would TRY if they thought they could get away with it.
EJFudd
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It continues to fascinate me how smart people here (many with gobs of database experience) cannot figure out how the state could possibly figure out who last owned a gun that appears in the transfers database more than once. Baffling, isn't it?
Bigfudge16
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I always wondered what procedure was to get a weapon that is damaged beyond reasonable repair out of your name. Asked a few LEOs during license renewals and no one seemed to have an answer.
