Morin v. Lyver is a follow-up challenge to the lifetime ban on the issuance of a License to Carry to anyone conviction of a minor, non-violent misdemeanor if the offense involves a weapon or ammunition and where a term of imprisonment may be imposed… Dr. Morin has since applied for and was issued a Firearms Identification Card. However, his application for a Permit to Purchase was denied.
You can have the card but you can’t have the gun? Some Masshole government POS decided that? Really?
[Via Jess]
Just another catch 22 … brought to us by legions of insidious state apparatchiks making it up as they roll over us.
“Despite clear statutory language to the contrary, the court determined that Morin could possess a firearm in his home had he only applied for a Firearms Identification Card (FID) and a Permit to Purchase (PTP). ”
Idiot judge. The only way you can own a handgun (“firearm” in Massachusetts law means “handgun,” everything else is legally a “long gun”) in your home with an FID is by having moved into state with it and getting the FID before your grace period expires. Once you’ve lived there past the grace period, that avenue is closed to you; you need an LTC simply to POSSESS a handgun, never mind purchase one.