GOAL’s Summary of H.4885 by Subject Matter

(Formerly HD.4420)

Updated: July 29, 2024

Note: The legislature has provided NO funding to the government agencies for any part of this bill.

Official Bill Text H.4885 signed into law July 19, 2024

The "section #s represent the section of the bill that the information is gained from. H.4885

This represents just an initial summary by subject matter. There is still a lot of detail that needs to be analyzed.

 

Ammunition

• SECTION 3.
• Ammunition retailer licenses have been rolled into the firearm retailer section. This will require ammunition sellers to maintain a place of business that is not a residence.
• The new bill allows for the unlimited private transfers of ammunition.
• All ammunition purchases through a Massachusetts licensed retailer shall be recorded by the retailer and the purchasing license holder must personally enter their information in the register.
• All retailers experiencing ammunition theft or loss must be reported to the state.

 

Antique Firearms

• SECTION 15. Creates a separate definition for “Antique Firearm”. Clarifies where a license is required to possess antiques/muzzle loaders. Any that use a modern primer may be considered a modern firearm. 

 

Assault Weapons & Large Capacity Magazines

• SECTION 16. Assault Style Firearms

• “Two feature test” is distorted by adding “shroud, fore grip” essentially banning every firearm that is semi-automatic centerfire utilizing a detachable magazine.
• Bans any firearm recommended by Firearm Control Advisory Board that they believe should the listed on the assault-style firearm roster.

 

“Assault-style firearm” - Grandfathering

Grandfathering - Lawfully Possessed is the key phrase. What is is it and when was it "lawfully possessed?

Chapter 140, 131M has been changed from “lawfully possessed” to “lawfully possessed in Massachusetts”. The importance of this change is that after August 1, 2024, any firearm meeting the new Assault Style Firearm definition is banned from being imported into Massachusetts. This includes the “pre-ban” firearms pre-September 13, 1994.



Because of the terminology used, it appears that the only guns grandfathered after the July 20, 2016 are the those that meet the new two feature test, such as the Tavor. So, because of the “lawfully possessed” and how that will be interpreted, it appears that there are now three different groups of guns with two different dates that must be dealt with.

 

1. Copies and duplicates of the enumerated list are only grandfathered if they were acquired prior to July 20, 2016.
2. Any gun that is not on the enumerated list, or their copies and duplicates, but now meets the new two feature test and is lawfully possessed in Massachusetts on August 1, 2024. We believe this group also includes the pre-September 13, 1994 assault weapons.

 

SECTION 71. Assault Style Firearms -

• August 1, 2024 Assault Style Firearms and Large Capacity Feeding Devices - bans: possess, own, offer for sale, sell or otherwise transfer in the commonwealth or import into the commonwealth that was not lawfully possessed in the state prior to August 2, 2024.

• September 13, 1994 only grandfathers large capacity feeding devices that are:
• Kept on private property and only controlled by the owner.
• Not on private property open to the public without the expressed permission of the property owner.
• While at a retailer or gunsmith, but only for repairs.
• At a licensed shooting range or competition venue.
• Must be stored unloaded in a secured locked container.
• Can only transfer to heir or a person outside of the state.

• To qualify for the exemption for the grandfathering the items must have been owned by an LTC Holder or a licensed retailer.
• This includes most, if not all, semi-automatic rifles and shotguns under the new definition.
• Mandatory registration.
• No, there are no exemptions for rimfire in the assault weapon law.
• Large capacity feeding devices does not include .22 rimfire tubular magazines.

 

Covert Weapons

SECTION 72. Covert Weapons – amend the law to include:

• No person shall knowingly possess, own, sell, offer for sale, transfer, manufacture assemble, repair or import any firearm capable of discharging a bullet or shot that is a covert firearm or an undetectable firearm.

 

Crime

• Section 134: Replaces ch. 269 § 101 with language that would punish anyone who brings a firearm into MA for the purposes of committing a crime with no less than 5 years or more than 10 years in prison.
• Whomever transports a gun into MA to give to a prohibited person shall be punished with no less than 10 years or more than 20 years in prison.
• If that unlawfully transferred gun leads to the death of a person the punishment shall be no less than 20 years

• Section 137: Amends ch. 269 § 11B to add if someone has an untraceable gun in their possession during the commission of a crime the shall be in prison for no less than 2 ½ years.

• Section 138: Strikes and replaces ch. 269 § 11C with language that anyone who knowingly participates in the creation, transfer or possession of an untraceable firearm shall be imprisoned for no less than 12 months or more than 2 ½ years.
• Effectively bans new “untraceable firearms” completely.

• Section 141: Strikes and replaces ch. 269 § 12E with language would punish someone for discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a dwelling or other building in use with a fine of $500 to $1000 or imprisonment in jail or HOC for up to 3 months
• Will not apply to lawful defense of life and property, law enforcement or other categories
• Does not apply to gun ranges
• Section 143: Inserts new section 12G into ch. 269 that would punish intentional reckless discharge of a firearm for 2 ½ years and up to 5 years or a fine of up to $10,000.
• Will not apply to lawful defense of life or property or law enforcement.
• Does not apply to gun ranges

Data

• SECTION 7. Changes information protection law to allow Department of Criminal Justice Information Services access to the data.
• SECTION 11. Records of substance alcohol and substance commitments can be shared with NICs.
• SECTION 12. Records of substance alcohol and substance commitments can be shared with law enforcement for background checks.

Data Collection

• Non-personally identifying data accessible to the general public through the publication of an online dashboard updated at least quarterly.
• The data will include an extensive wide range of information.

• SECTION 75. Tracing of firearms by law enforcement – creates a huge data collection on the misuse of firearms.

 

ERPO – Red Flag

• SECTION 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85. Extreme Risk Protection Orders
• ERPOS can now be used on anyone, not just license gun owners, but it appears that the only a court can do is revoke a firearm license?
• Technical change strikes the words “the provisions of”.
• Massive language outlining the process and confiscation of property.
• Adds health care providers to eligible petitioners and allows them to disclose protected health care information. They can also be forced by the court to disclose the information.
• Detailed reporting of ERPOs issued.

 

Firearm Control Advisory Board

• SECTION 50. Firearm Control Advisory Board
• Formerly the Gun Control Advisory
• Adds members to the Board to include:
• A person appointed by the speaker of the House that has demonstrated knowledge or expertise in firearm safety, law or technology.
• A person appointed by the Senate President that has demonstrated knowledge or expertise in firearm safety, law or technology
• The board shall also advise the executive office of public safety and security on training needs and materials for licensing authorities and licensees.
• The new “Assault Style Firearm” law seems to allow the Board to determine what can be banned under that new section.

Firearm Retailers

• SECTION 1. Retailer Employees
• Broadens the scope of background checks for prospective employees.

• SECTION 33. Retail Licenses

 

• Appears to roll gunsmith, firearm and ammunition retail licenses into one license.
• Appears to allow a retail applicant to use their LTC information for application.
• A retailer license cannot act as a license to carry.
• Must complete online training.
• SECTION 37. Retailers
• Requires retailers to confiscate and report expired, suspended, revoked LTCs or FIDs if presented to them.
• Must keep an on-site or electronic record of all firearm and ammunition transactions. Does MIRCs cover this?
• Records shall be open at all times to the inspection of the police. (Without warrant?)
• Bans internet sales of firearms and ammunition unless the items are transferred in person.
• Annual inspections can be done by state police if the local authority opts out.
• The state must develop signage and have it available for download.
• The retailer shall make and keep an on-site or electronic record of all firearm & ammunition transactions.
• Records shall be open at all times to the inspection of the police. (Presumably without warrant.)
• Before transfer or delivery of any sold, rented, leased or otherwise transferred firearm or ammunition, a legible entry in the on-site or electronic record shall be made and kept specifying:

o  The complete description of the firearm and ammunition transferred, including the make, serial number, type of firearm and designation as a large capacity firearm, if applicable.

o  Whether the firearm or ammunition has been sold, rented or leased and the date of such transaction.

o  The license, permit or card identification number of the person acquiring the firearm, or ammunition along with their sex, residence address and occupation.

o  The purchaser, renter or lessee’s name as personally written by said person in the sales record book and as confirmed by valid state or federal identification.

Gunsmiths

• Gunsmiths shall keep records of their work together with the names and addresses of their customers.
• Gunsmiths are now licensed under the retailer law.
• Exemption: Shall not apply to a gunsmith for:
• Repair or remodeling or servicing of firearms., but must keep records of work done and for who.

 

• SECTION 38.
• Retailer applicant training:

o  Uniform standards of security for business premises

o  Employee background check and training requirements

o  Information on requirements and conditions contained in laws and regulations   

 

• SECTION 40. Retailer License (Now includes ammunition and gun smithing.)
• Removes mandatory minimum sentencing for unlawful transfer.
• Gives the option to courts to provide jail time for up to 2 ½ years instead of prison time.
• Gun smiths and ammunition retailers must meet all requirements previously applying retailers. This includes the mandate of having a permanent place of business that is not a residence or dwelling wherein all transactions described in this section shall be conducted and wherein all records required to be kept under this section shall be so kept.

Frames and Receivers

• There is nothing in the new law that references 80% lowers, it simply refers to “unfinished” frames and receivers.
• All frames and/or receivers (unfinished or otherwise) that could be considered a copy or duplicate of an enumerated Assault Weapon must have been lawfully possessed and registered in Massachusetts on or before July 19, 2016.
• Any frames or receivers (unfinished or otherwise), not on the enumerated ban list, but meet the new features test must be possessed and registered in Massachusetts on or before August 1, 2024.
• Private builds for any firearm that would fall under the new semi-automatic Assault Style Firearm definitions are prohibited after August 1, 2024

 

Ghost Guns

• 3-D Printers and Milling Machines
• Must have a License to Carry in order to use 3-dimensional printer or computer numerical control milling machine to manufacture or assemble any firearm.
• Bans the sale of 3-D printers and CNC milling machines that have the primary or intended function of manufacturing or assembling firearms.
• Federally licensed manufacturers are exempt.

 

Juniors

• Bans youth non-resident hunting. (Under 18)
• SECTION 45. Bans non-resident youth hunting. (Under 18)
• SECTION 47. Strikes the section of the law for furnishing firearms to minors and aliens.

Large Capacity Feeding Devices

Must have been lawfully possessed on, or before, September 13, 1994. (It does not specify possessed in Massachusetts, but the Attorney General will likely have a say in that.)

• On private property owned or legally controlled by the person in possession of the large capacity feeding device.
• On private property that is not open to the public with the express permission of the property owner.
• While on the premises of a licensed firearms dealer or gunsmith for the purpose of lawful repair.
• At a licensed firing range or sports shooting competition venue.
  
• When traveling to and from the “permitted” locations they must be stored unloaded and secured in a locked container in compliance with the storage and transportation laws.
  
• It is unlawful to “import” any LCFDs into Massachusetts.
  
• Transfers are limited to heirs, someone outside the State, or to a retailer. We have not yet found an exemption for retailers to transfer to persons inside the commonwealth.

Legal Exemptions

• SECTION 45. Exemptions
• Reduces the exemption time for inheriting firearms from 180 days to 60 days.
• Common carriers are required to comply with storage and transportation laws.
• Confusing contradicting language concerning furnishing persons under 21 with firearms and ammunition.
• Bans non-resident hunters from possessing semi-automatic firearms.
• Bans non-resident youth hunting.
• Seems to allow unlicensed non-residents to carry a firearm while in a vehicle traveling through the state. If not under their direct control they must comply with “locked container” laws.
• Non-residents possessing guns for any purpose, other then traveling through, must register and serialize their firearms.

 

Licensing

• Licensing – Seems to combine all licensing language in regard to who is eligible in one section.
• Business owners can no longer apply for an LTC in the town where the business is. This also means that non-resident business owners must acquire a non-resident temporary license if they wish to possess a firearm in Massachusetts. Those firearms must be registered.

 

• Adds “Section 12” mental health evaluation records.
• It seems to allow the Commissioner of Probation, Commissioner of Mental Health, and the State Domestic Violence system to determine “suitability” in regard to involuntary commitments.
• Licensing Authorities must keep records on: License and card applications, receipts, fees, affidavits, license location transfers and training certificates, issued licenses and cards, and denials, revocations and suspensions of the same, decisions of the firearm licensing review board, firearm transfers, including deliveries, seizures, surrenders, loss or theft or disposals.
• The state must notify the local authority of a pending expiration.

 

• Adds to “prohibited person”:
• Adds harassment orders.
• Maintains and increases the range “suitability”.
• Renewals must include an affidavit concerning any loss or theft of firearms.
• Appeals can go through the Colonel of the State Police or a court.

• SECTION 44. FID Cards
• Seems to allow a holder of an FID card, regardless to purchase, transfer, possess and carry ammunition, rifles and shotguns that are not large capacity or semi-automatic.
• An FID card holder is banned from possessing a semi-atomic outside of an officially incorporated club or licensed range. Must be under the supervision of an LTC holder.

• SECTION 49. License to Carry
• Bans the possession of large capacity firearms and semi-automatic firearms.
• Replaces LTC section in its entirety.
• LTC holders must comply with the new “Assault Style Firearm” laws.
• Change of address must be done electronically.
• Machine gun license holders are banned from possessing newly defined automatic devices or automatic parts.

• SECTION 55. Provides certain protections unlicensed non-residents carrying or transporting firearms while traveling through Massachusetts in the transportation law.

• SECTION 61 & 62. Non-resident licensing – confusing language
• Strikes out “alien that resides outside the commonwealth” and replaces it with: a citizen or national of the United States or a person who maintains legal permanent residency.
• Technical change to include renumbered licensing section.

• SECTION 92, 93. Harassment Orders
• Includes language to immediately suspend firearm licenses.
• Mandates the surrender of firearms and ammunition.
• Law enforcement can only transfer surrendered property to a licensed retailer

 

Non-residents

• All non-residents must register their firearm/s prior to entering the state for any use other than traveling through.
• Are no longer exempt for possessing handguns and any semi-automatic firearms for any purpose.
• Bans youth non-resident hunting. (Under 18)
• Bans the possession for non-residents of semi-automatic firearms for hunting under 21 years of age.
• SECTION 63. Bans the possession of large capacity feeding devices by licensed non-residents.

Off Road Vehicles

• SECTION 8. Technical change to off road vehicle laws firearm possession to include new term of “firearm”.
• SECTION 9. Amends the off-road vehicle law to now allow the carrying of firearms. It puts the section of law in line with general transportation laws.
  

Pepper Spray

• Adds permit may be issued to a person at least 12 years of age but less than 15 years with permission of parent or guardian.
• Reduces permit time to only valid for 3 years.

 

Possession of a Firearm While Intoxicated

 

• SECTION 13. Sets an objective standard OUI at 0.08 blood alcohol content in the hunting laws to include target shooting.

 

 

Private Transfers

• SECTION 41. Private Transfers
• Bans the transfer of semi-automatic firearms to those who hold an FID card.
• FID Card holders are banned from transferring semi-automatic firearms.
• Keeps four transfers per calendar year.
• Appears anyone under 21 that owns a semi-automatic firearm must surrender it.
• Appears to legalize the private sale of ammunition with no quantity limits.

Prohibited Areas

• Section 124: Prohibited Areas
• Inserts a subsection to ch. 269 § 10 that would punish anyone who knowingly possesses a firearm in a prohibited area with a fine up to $1,000 and/or imprisonment in the HOC for up to 2 ½ years.
• Defines prohibited areas as:
• Any place owned, leased or controlled by the state, county or municipal government used for gov admin, judicial or court admin proceedings, or correctional services including the building, grounds including parking lots (excludes public land available for hunting)
• Any place used for polling, while being used for polling, also qualifies including within 150 feet of that building
• Allows municipalities to exempt their buildings from the statute
• LTC, FID and Temporary LTC holders can store their firearm in a locked container in a vehicle within the prohibited area.

• Law enforcement are exempt

Registration

Special Note: Previously there was no requirement for citizens moving into Massachusetts to register their firearms. It now appears that they will have to do so retroactively back to the date they moved in. It may also be the case that they would then have to report any transfers they have done since then. Otherwise the firearms would still be registered in their name.

• SECTION 32. Creates new registration mandates. – No Funding Provided
• Creates a new section of law, Chapter 140 Section 121B
• Appears to include retailer inventory. Does this prevent MA retailers from keeping “non-compliant” inventory?
• Creates a full registration scheme and system.
• The name and address of the source from which the firearm was obtained, including the name and address of the prior registrant if applicable.
• Whether the firearm is a privately made firearm.
• A statement signed by the registrant that they are properly licensed, permitted or exempted under the laws of the commonwealth and are not otherwise prohibited from owning or possessing a firearm. 
• Anyone moving into the state will have to register firearms. (not previously required.)
• To include, but not limited to, all purchases, sales, rentals, leases, loans or other transfers shall be reported to the electronic firearms registration system.
• All firearm transactions shall be reported by all parties.
• No report shall be required for a loan of a firearm to a duly licensed or exempted person for a period of less than 7 days. 
• Failure to report loss or theft: $1,000 - $10,000 and prison.

 

• SECTION 42. Non-resident registration.
• Non-residents are prohibited from purchasing firearms or ammunition, but must register it if they do?
• Exemptions – Registration
• Being delivered to law enforcement for the sole purpose of their destruction.
• Possessed by common carriers and their duly authorized employees and agents while performing the regular and ordinary transport of firearms as merchandise for customers licensed to permit such transport.
• Possessed by individuals lawfully traveling through the commonwealth in the care and custody of a nonresident owner provided that the firearms are stored in accordance with sections 131C and 131L.
• That are the property of the government of the United States.
• Produced by federally licensed manufacturers not for sale in the commonwealth.
• Firearms manufactured prior to October 22, 1968 do not have to be serialized.

 

Reports

• SECTION 2. Mandates an annual report on the “effectiveness” on new registration requirements. 
• Section 152: Effective implementation of live fire training mandate
• Recommendations for cost, resources and facilities availability
• 2 public hearings in different regions to help implement
• due 9 months from the effective date

 

Rosters

• It appears that all types of firearms, rifles, shotguns, etc. are now subject to the same testing requirements that previously only to handguns sold by retailers.

• SECTION 51. Rosters
• Rosters for Assaults style firearms and approved firearms must be reviewed, updated and published three times a year.
• Requires licensing authorities to provide information about the rosters to license applicants or renewals.
• Grants authority to the Secretary of EOPPS to add or delete firearms from any roster at their discretion.

• SECTION 51. Rosters
• Rosters for Assaults style firearms and approved firearms must be reviewed, updated and published three times a year.
• Requires licensing authorities to provide information about the rosters to license applicants or renewals.
• Grants authority to the Secretary of EOPPS to add or delete firearms from any roster at their discretion.

Semi-Automatics

• Complete prohibition for FID card holder regardless of age. A holder of an FID card is prohibited from: owning, possessing, purchasing or transferring (including to retailers) rifles and shotguns that are large capacity or semi-automatic (even rimfire).
• As for LTC holders, the new semi-automatic laws are very expansive and there are several sections that must be referenced in order to determine what is banned and who is banned from possessing them.
• The new laws also appear to give full authority to the Secretary of EOPSS to amend the rosters for any and all firearms including semi-automatic firearms. We won’t know what will be “approved” or banned for quite some time.

 

Serialization

• Mandatory Serialization of Firearms. Firearms manufactured prior to October 22, 1968 do not have to be serialized

 

• All firearms, frames and receivers must have a serial number.
• Serial numbers must be placed in a manner not susceptible of being readily obliterated, altered or removed.
• Firearms, frames and receivers made from non-metallic materials shall be accomplished by using a metal plate permanently embedded in the material of the frame or receiver. 
• Any firearm, frame or receiver transferred, inherited, etc. into the state must in compliance within 60 days.
• Firearms dealers, gunsmiths, distributors or manufacturers shall be serialized within 7 days of import or acquisition. 
• Privately made firearms:

o  Must obtain a unique serial number prior to manufacture or assembly.

o  Serialize the firearm with the obtained serial number during manufacture or assembly.

o  Register the firearm within 7 days.

• The state shall develop and maintain a serial number request system to electronically receive, record and process requests.
• All data on privately made firearms is available for data collection.
• Serial number requests include:

o  Whether the request is for a privately made firearm.

o  The type of firearm to be serialized.

o   If privately made.

o   The means and manner of its production. 

·     Exemptions:

o  Being delivered to law enforcement for destruction.

o  Common carriers.

o  Non-residents traveling through the state, but the firearms must be stored and/or transported according to state law.

o  That are the property of the government of the United States.

o   Produced by federally licensed manufacturers not for sale in the commonwealth.

o  Manufactured prior to October 22, 1968. 

 

Storage & Transportation

• SECTION 54. References the FID card section in the transportation law.
• SECTION 57. Transportation
• Makes changes the law to include locked consoles and glove boxes in the definition of “Secured in a locked container”
• Changes the law to officially allow a firearm to be stored is a “Secured in a locked container” while the vehicle is unattended.
• Mandates common carriers in the course of the regular and ordinary transport of firearms, locked access to any area containing firearms.
• SECTION 70. Storage laws – now includes semi-automatics in the same category as large capacity firearms.

 

Special Funds & Commissions

• SECTION 5. Creates Violence Prevention Federal Reinvestment Trust Fund.
• Section 148: Establishes a special legislative commission to study emerging firearm technology including microstamping and “personalized firearms.”
• Section 149: Establishes a special legislative commission to study funding structures for violence prevention
• Section 150: Establishes a special legislative study commission to study the collection, maintenance, access, use and distribution of firearm data.
• Including tracking sales and transfers, registration, stolen and lost guns, sharing of data between state and federal agencies
• Section 151: Establishes an EOHSS task force to find federal funding for “community violence prevention” programs

 

Surrender of Firearms

• SECTION 46. Surrender of Firearms
• If a license is suspended/revoked all firearms can only be surrendered to law enforcement who can now only transfer them to a licensed retailer that is a bonded warehouse.
• If stored firearms are not returned to the owner shall be sold and the proceeds to go to the state.
• Mandates the licensing authority report the delivery or surrender or seizure of firearms and ammunition to the registration system.

• SECTION 92, 93. Harassment Orders
• Includes language to immediately suspend firearm licenses.
• Mandates the surrender of firearms and ammunition.
• Law enforcement can only transfer surrendered property to a licensed retailer

 

Training

• SECTION 38. Licensing Authority Training & Retailers – No Funding Provided

 

• Training seminars for l to include:

o  current laws, regulations and rules relating to this chapter

o  licensing responsibilities

o  record keeping obligations

o  firearm surrender, registration and tracing

o  annual inspection of retailers

o  electronic database use.

• Retailer applicant training:

o  Uniform standards of security for business premises

o  Employee background check and training requirements

o  Information on requirements and conditions contained in laws and regulations   

 

• SECTION 74. Training
• Limits Hunter Education certificate to an FID Card.
• Exempts those who hold an LTC or FID prior to August 1, 2024 for renewals
• The colonel of state police, in consultation with the municipal police training committee, shall create a new training curriculum. Must include:

o  Injury prevention.

o  Suicide prevention.

o  Disengagement tactics.

o  Live fire.

o  Completion of a written exam.

• The colonel shall create a written examination and establish minimum requirements to pass.             
• It appears that the state will send the certificate to successful students.
• Licensing authority must confirm with the state that a certificate has been issued prior to processing a license application.
• Requires the state police to produce and distribute public service announcements to encourage and educate the general public about safe storage and transportation of firearms and the importance of firearms safety education and training, including information on places and classes that a person may attend to obtain firearms safety education and training. (This was GOAL’s language that passed in 2014, but was never done.)
• The state shall develop materials that will be shared by instructors during classes:

o  Harm reduction

o  Suicide prevention through safe practices by firearms’ owners to reduce access to lethal means.

• The prevalence of suicide by firearm compared to other forms of firearms’ violence.
• Demographic trends
• The risks of injury and suicide that may be associated with household firearms
• Including the rate of survival for suicide attempts by firearms compared to other means of attempted suicide
• Best practices for identifying and reducing the risk of suicide involving household firearms
• Available resources to learn more about safe practices and suicide prevention
• Other information as mandated by the state.

 

Technical Changes

SECTION 4. Technical change to fee collections referencing the new sections of law.

SECTION 6. Technical change to firearm owner information protection. (Firearm)

SECTION 10. Technical change to alcohol and substance commitments to reflect new “Firearm” definition.

SECTION 14. Technical change in the hunting laws for the penalty clause for Hunting Under the Influence (HUI).

SECTION 31. Removes the definition “Weapon” and replaces it with “Firearm”.

SECTION 39. Technical change to use new definition of “Firearm”

SECTION 43. Technical change to “Firearm” definition.

SECTION 48. Technical change to “Firearm”

SECTION 52 & 53. Technical change for “Firearm” definition

SECTION 56. Technical change to the transportation law to include new “Firearm” Definition

SECTION 58. Technical change for the new definition of “Firearm”

SECTION 60. Technical change to non-resident licensing to include new “Firearm” definition.

SECTION 66. Technical change to include the new “Firearm” definition.

SECTION 67, 68 & 69. Technical change to the storage law to include the new definition of “Firearm”

SECTION 73. Technical change to the firearm surrender law to include the new definition of “Firearm”.

SECTION 87, 88, 88A, 89, 90, 91. Technical correction to restraining order law to include the new definition of “Firearm”.

SECTION 94. Technical correction to assault and battery with a firearm to include the new definition of “Firearm”.

SECTION 95, 96. Technical correction to armed robbery with a firearm to include the new definition of “Firearm”.

SECTION 97. Technical correction to attempt or murder law to include the new definition of “Firearm”.

SECTION 98. Technical correction to home invasion law.

SECTION 99, 100, 101, 102. Technical correction to firearms felony.

Section 103: Technical correction to ch. 265 § 21A

Section 104: Technical correction to ch. 265 § 22

Section 105: Technical correction to ch. 265 § 24

Section 106: Technical correction to ch. 265 § 24B

Section 107: Technical correction to ch. 265 § 26

Section 108: Technical correction to ch. 265 § 26

Section 109: Technical correction to ch. 265 § 39

Section 110: Technical correction to ch. 265 § 58

Section 111: Technical correction to ch. 266 § 14

Section 112: Technical correction to ch. 266 § 17

Section 113: Technical correction to ch. 266 § 18

Section 114: Technical correction to ch. 269 § 10

Section 115: Technical correction to ch. 269 § 10

Section 116: Technical correction to ch. 269 § 10

Section 117: Technical correction to ch. 269 § 10

Section 118: Technical correction to ch. 269 § 10

Section 119: ***OMITTED***

Section 120: Technical correction to ch. 269 § 10

Section 121: Technical correction to ch. 269 § 10

Section 122: Technical correction to ch. 269 § 10

Section 123: Technical correction to ch. 269 § 10

Section 125: Technical correction to ch. 269 § 10

Section 126: Technical correction to ch. 269 § 10

Section 127: Technical correction to ch. 269 § 10

Section 128: Technical correction to ch. 269 § 10

Section 129: Technical correction to ch. 269 § 10A

Section 130: Technical correction to ch. 269 § 10E

Section 131: Technical correction to ch. 269 § 10E

Section 132: Technical correction to ch. 269 § 10F

Section 133: Technical correction to ch. 269 § 10H

Section 135: Technical correction to ch. 269 § 10K

Section 136: Technical correction to ch. 269 § 11A

Section 140: Technical correction to ch. 269 § 12D

Section 142: Technical correction to ch. 269 § 12F

Section 144: Technical correction to ch. 269 § 14

Section 145: Technical correction to ch. 276 § 58A

Section 146: Technical correction to ch. 276 § 58A

Section 147: Technical correction to ch. 140 § 121

 

Misc.

SECTION 59. Repeals a right to purchase law - Section 131E. It seems to roll that language into other parts of the new laws.

SECTION 64. Repeals the non-resident carry law. It seems that most of it is rolled into other new sections.

SECTION 65. Repeals the Alien ownership and possession law.

Section 139: Repeals ch. 269 § 11E

 

Effective Dates of implementation

Section 154: 6 months – notification of updates to ch 140 §§ 121B and C to all LTC and FID holders

Section 155: (a) 6 months – regs from EOPSS for changes to ch 140 § 121B

                                   (b) 6 months – regs from EOPSS for changes to ch 140 §121C

Section 156: 1 year – DCJIS establish the online dashboard and publish firearm data from ch. 140 § 121E

Section 157: 1 year – DCJIS establish electronic firearms registration system

Section 158: 1 year – DCJIS establish serial number request system

Section 159: 18 months – sections 38 and 75 of the bill