Acushnet Police Department

Firearms Laws

General Laws of Massachusetts

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140-121	Firearms sales, definitions, antiques firearms, application of law; exceptions
140 - 121A	Identification of firearms, certificate by ballistics expert as prima facie evidence
140 - 122	Licenses; contents; fingerprints of applicants, procedure on refusal of license, fee, punishment for improper issuance
140 - 122A	Record of licenses; notice to criminal history systems board; sales record books
140 - 122B	Sale of ammunition; licenses; fees; rules and regulations; refusal, suspension or revocation of license; judicial review; penalties
140 - 123	Conditions of licenses
140 - 124	Terms of licenses
140 - 125	Forfeiture or suspension of licenses; notice
140 - 126	Placards, signs or advertisements; prima facie evidence that weapons are kept for sale
140 - 127	Transfer of licenses
140 - 128	Penalty for violation of statue on selling, renting or leasing weapons; evidence on sale of machine gun
140 - 128A	Application of section 128
140 - 128B	Unauthorized purchase of firearms; report to commissioner; penalties
140 - 129	Fictitious name or address and other false information; penalties
140 - 129A	Repealed, 1945, 254
140 - 129B	Firearms identification cards; form; conditions; applications; fee; denial; revocation; judicial review
140 - 129C	Application of section 128B; ownership or possession of firearms or ammunition; transfers; report to executive director; exemptions; exhibiting license to carry, etc. on demand
140 - 129D	Surrender of firearms and ammunition to licensing authority upon denial of application for, or revocation of, identification card or license; right to transfer; sale by colonel of state police; rules and regulations
140 - 130	Sale or furnishing weapons or ammunition to aliens or minors; penalties; exceptions
140 - 130A	Repealed, 1957, 688, Sec 14
140 - 131	License to carry or possess firearms
140 - 131A	Permits to purchase, rent or lease firearms, or to purchase ammunition; fee; penalties
140 - 131B	Penalty for loan of money secured by weapons
140 - 131C	Carrying of firearms in a vehicle
140 - 131D	Repealed, 1954, 672, Sec 7
140 - 131E	Purchase by residents; licenses; firearm identification cards; purchase for use of another; penalties; revocation of licenses or cards; re-issuance
140 - 131F	Non-residents or aliens; temporary license to carry firearms or ammunition
140 - 131F½	Theatrical productions; carrying firearms and blank ammunition
140 - 131G	Carrying of firearms by non-residents; conditions
140 - 131H	Ownership or possession of firearms by aliens; penalties; seizure and disposition
140 - 131I	Falsifying firearm license or identification card; penalty
140 - 131J	Sale or possession of electrical weapons; penalties
140 - 131L	Security of weapons; penalties; MUST be secured (This is new to the firearms law - Click here)
269 - 10	Carrying dangerous weapons, possession of machine gun or sawed-off shotgun
269 - 10H	Carrying a firearm under the influence; loaded firearm (This is new to the firearms law - Click here)
269 - 11B	Possession or control of firearm with serial or identification number removed or mutilated
269 - 11C	Removal or mutilation of serial or identification numbers of firearms
269 - 11E	Serial identification numbers on firearms; penalties
269 - 12A	Selling or furnishing an air rifle to minor
269 - 12B	Possession of air rifle by minor under eighteen; shooting air rifle
269 - 12E	Discharge of firearm within 500 feet of dwelling or other building in use