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Mass Judge Rules Law Against Carrying Guns Across State Lines Unconstitutional - grayfox - 08-24-2023
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Massachusetts Judge Rules Law Against Carrying Guns Across State Lines Unconstitutional | The Reload
"A persons right to carry a firearm in public for self-defense does not end at state lines, a Massachusetts [State] trial judge has ruled.
Earlier this month, Lowell District Court Justice John F. Coffey dismissed a criminal case against a New Hampshire man charged with carrying a firearm without a license in Massachusetts. He found the states requirement that non-residents obtain a temporary license to carry in Massachusetts violates the Second Amendment.
An individual only loses a constitutional right if he commits an offense or is or has been engaged in certain behavior that is covered by 18 USC section 922, Judge Coffey wrote on August 3rd in Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Dean F. Donnell. He doesnt lose that right simply by traveling into an adjoining state whose statute mandates that residents of that state obtain a license prior to exercising their constitutional right. To hold otherwise would inexplicably treat Second Amendment rights differently than other individually held rights. Therefore, the Court finds that GL. 269, sec. (10a) is unconstitutional as applied to this particularly situated defendant and allows the motion to dismiss on that ground."