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Massachusetts Special Legislative Commission on Emerging Firearm Technology

March 10, 2025February 26, 2025 by Darwin Nercesian

A group created by sweeping gun control measures signed into law last July by Massachusetts Governer Maura Healey has convened to “investigate and study the status, feasibility, and utility of emerging firearm technologies, including, but not limited to, personalized firearm technology and microstamp technology.” The group includes politicians, law enforcement professionals, military backgrounds, a tech … Read more

NRA to Challenge Massachusetts’ New Firearms Law

March 10, 2025July 30, 2024 by Doug Howlett

The NRA announced plans to challenge Massachusetts’ new firearms law, signed by Governor Maura Healey last week. The law has sparked significant concern among gun owners out of a very real concern it will effectively ban common firearms. Governor Healey signed the bill on Thursday, introducing measures to combat ghost guns, expanding laws for the … Read more

Supreme Court Vacates Ruling Upholding Mass. Ban on Gun Purchases by Those Convicted of Gun Misdemeanors

March 5, 2025October 3, 2022 by John Boch

Massachusetts effectively blocks anyone convicted of a non-violent misdemeanor involving a firearm from purchasing handguns. A recent First District Court of Appeals ruling upheld the prohibition in Morin v. Lyver. Today the supreme court vacated the ruling and remanded the case back to the district court and told them to try again, using the Bruen … Read more

Vague and Arbitrary is No Way to Write Laws, But That Hasn’t Stopped Anti-Gun States So Far

March 6, 2025May 16, 2020 by Dan Zimmerman

Massachusetts’ “assault weapons” and “high capacity” magazine ban (Worman v. Healey) is just one of 10 Second Amendment cases the Supreme Court relisted last week. Fingers crossed that we’ll be getting some good news on one or more of these cases before the Court adjourns for the summer. Joyce Lee Malcolm, a law professor at … Read more

FPC to SCOTUS: MA Ban on Semi-Auto Firearms & Standard Capacity Magazines is Unconstitutional

October 25, 2019 by TTAG Contributor

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced the filing of an important Supreme Court brief in the case of Worman v. Healey, a challenge to Massachusetts’s ban on so-called “assault weapons” and “large-capacity” firearm magazines. The brief is available online at FPCLegal.org. “In holding that the Second Amendment protects arms ‘in common use’ in D.C. v. Heller, the … Read more

Mass. AG Healey Sued Over Denial of 3D Gun Information

September 19, 2018 by Dan Zimmerman

When it comes to gun control in Massachusetts, Attorney General Maura Healey is a law unto herself. Who needs a state legislature when you can impose your own laws like instituting an “assault weapons” ban and outlawing 3D-printed guns by diktat? Life’s so much easier as an elected official when you don’t have to muck … Read more

Healey’s Latest Diktat, ‘Undetectable’ and Gun Sense University — TTAG Daily Digest

August 12, 2018 by Dan Zimmerman

3D-printed guns are illegal in Mass., Healey says The Massachusetts AG is making up her own gun control laws…again . . . Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey and other top state law enforcement officials emphasized Thursday that 3D-printing of guns is illegal and poses a serious public safety risk. The officials issued a public safety notice to … Read more

BREAKING: Massachusetts’ Reinterpreted Assault Weapons Ban Upheld by US District Court

April 6, 2018 by Dan Zimmerman

“The AR-15 and its analogs, along with large capacity magazines, are simply not weapons within the original meaning of the individual constitutional rights to ‘bear arms.’” That’s the considered opinion of U.S. District Judge William Young in slapping down a challenge to Massachusetts’ reinterpreted “assault weapons” ban. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey was sued by a … Read more

Court Rules NSSF’s Massachusetts Assault Weapons Ban Suit Can Go Forward

March 20, 2018 by Dan Zimmerman

Regulatory over-reach, thy name is Massachusetts. You may remember that back in 2016 Bay State Attorney General Maura Healey unilaterally extended the state’s ban on “assault weapon” sales with a stroke of her pen. She accomplished this high-handed feat of autocracy by redefining the legal definition of what qualifies as an assault rifle, a move … Read more

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