Massachusetts
firearm sales restrictions
long gun Restrictive
MA1010 — assault weapons ban
Citation:
Mass. Gen. Laws. Ch. 140 § 131M
No person shall sell, offer for sale, transfer or possess an assault weapon or a large capacity feeding device that was not otherwise lawfully possessed on September 13, 1994.
Effective:
1998-10-21
Massachusetts
firearm sales restrictions
handgun Restrictive
MA1011 — saturday night special ban
Citation:
Mass. Gen. Laws Ch. 140, § 123 (clauses Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-first)
Eighteenth, That no licensee shall sell, rent, lease, transfer or deliver or offer for sale, lease, transfer or delivery any firearm, to any purchaser in the commonwealth unless such sale is to a business entity that is primarily a firearm wholesaler and the sale, by its terms, prohibits the purchaser from reselling such firearm to a firearm retailer or consumer in the commonwealth if such firearm has a frame,...
Effective:
1998-10-21
Massachusetts
firearm sales restrictions
handgun Restrictive
MA1028 — assault weapons ban
Citation:
Mass. Gen. Laws. Ch. 140 § 131M
No person shall sell, offer for sale, transfer or possess an assault weapon or a large capacity feeding device that was not otherwise lawfully possessed on September 13, 1994.
Effective:
1998-10-21
Massachusetts
firearm sales restrictions
handgun and long gun Restrictive
MA1073 — ban on high capacity magazines
Citation:
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 140, §§ 131M
No person shall sell, offer for sale, transfer or possess an assault weapon or a large capacity feeding device that was not otherwise lawfully possessed on September 13, 1994.
Effective:
1998-10-22
Massachusetts
firearm sales restrictions
handgun and long gun Restrictive
MA1070 — assault weapons ban - Federal
Citation:
Pub. L. 103-322 Sec. 110102
This subtitle may be cited as the “Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act”. SEC. 110102. RESTRICTION ON MANUFACTURE, TRANSFER, AND POSSESSION OF CERTAIN SEMIAUTOMATIC ASSAULT WEAPONS.
Effective:
1994-09-13 Superseded:
2004-09-13
Massachusetts
firearm sales restrictions
handgun and long gun Restrictive
MA1072 — ban on high capacity magazines - federal
Citation:
Pub. L. 103-322 Sec. 110103
SEC. 110103. BAN OF LARGE CAPACITY AMMUNITION FEEDING DEVICES. << 18 USCA § 922 >> (a) PROHIBITION.-Section 922 of title 18, United States Code, as amended by section 110102(a), is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: “(w)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), it shall be unlawful for a person to transfer or possess a large capacity ammunition feeding device.
Effective:
1994-09-13 Superseded:
2004-09-13