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Actually, 269-10j contains the terms "on one's person" that provides a differentiation from the other possession sections. There have been cases where cases could not be successfully prosecuted because, for example, the gun was in the car and not on someone's person. The reasoning given to me by an attorney was that the presence of a differentiation within a different section of the very same law provides a very strong case that the two sections do, in fact, convey a different meaning. All usual cautions about "real world" implications apply.I listened to this shooting, blow by blow on the radio, where I was working at the time.
It was the impetus for banning all CCW on school property (including colleges). IIRC it was a Fed Law (or I might be confusing it with the 1000' law that was overturned and re-written). At any rate, some states allow CCW on college campuses, MA is NOT one of them (we have a specific MGL that forbids any firearms from any school property including colleges in MA).
Good luck getting the letter from the person in charge of the college in MA (the only exemption other than LE), it's damn near impossible. I once tried it at NU and got a polite "we don't allow it for anyone" letter. I was well known there personally to most admin and that included the President at that time.
I have hard that the feds encourages states to ban campus carry after the armed students took over the administration building at Cornell back in the sixties. Apparently, they would have not done so of carrying the guns they were threatening to kill people with was illegal.