Ben Cartwright SASS
US Veteran
I am not sure if this is the forum to post this in so will also try another forum as well. I am trying to find out what the law might be for C&R guns, specifically old revolvers. I hope I explain myself well.
I have a C&R FFL and have purchased several Smith and Wesson Victory Model Revolvers at Mass Gun Shows, I would like to get a S&W 1917 Army, made in 1918 on GunBroker but it is not on the approved list, for that matter there are not S&W Victory Models on the State approved list, does that mean unless they were in the state before 1994 I cannot purchase them on my C&R? Massachusetts has a restriction that unless a firearm is on the state approved list or was owned in the state before 1994 (?) you cannot buy it from a FFL.
Does the Federal FFL law as far as C&R guns mean that I can, or cannot, buy a C&R S&W 1917 Army Revolver from a dealer in another state, while I am living here in Mass? Does Mass law supersede Federal law?
Also the C&R regs say I can sell a gun to a resident of the state I live in that is legally able to own a gun, but that hold true for the state of Mass?
NOVEMBER 11th
I just talked to a large dealer here in Mass, and I was wrong about the dates, it is for Used Firearms before Oct 1998. They have to be show documentation that they were owned or under a dealers license before Oct 1998 or they cannot be purchased by a Mass Resident. MGL c140
However the C&R, per the dealer, is a FFL and can buy firearms interstate that were not here before Oct 1998, but they cannot be sold to a private citizen due to the law stated above, also in Mass a C&R cannot sell to a private party unless you have a dealers license issued by Mass, so you have to go to a 01 FFL, but even they cannot sell prohibited firearms as stated above.
They said that certain firearms are manufactured by a very large company located in Massachusetts and therefore are under that dealers license in Mass before being sold elsewhere, so I am lucky since I am specializing in their victory revolvers. But at least I could add an Enfield No 2 revolver or a Colt if I wanted to, I just can't sell it to a Mass resident.
I have a C&R FFL and have purchased several Smith and Wesson Victory Model Revolvers at Mass Gun Shows, I would like to get a S&W 1917 Army, made in 1918 on GunBroker but it is not on the approved list, for that matter there are not S&W Victory Models on the State approved list, does that mean unless they were in the state before 1994 I cannot purchase them on my C&R? Massachusetts has a restriction that unless a firearm is on the state approved list or was owned in the state before 1994 (?) you cannot buy it from a FFL.
Does the Federal FFL law as far as C&R guns mean that I can, or cannot, buy a C&R S&W 1917 Army Revolver from a dealer in another state, while I am living here in Mass? Does Mass law supersede Federal law?
Also the C&R regs say I can sell a gun to a resident of the state I live in that is legally able to own a gun, but that hold true for the state of Mass?
NOVEMBER 11th
I just talked to a large dealer here in Mass, and I was wrong about the dates, it is for Used Firearms before Oct 1998. They have to be show documentation that they were owned or under a dealers license before Oct 1998 or they cannot be purchased by a Mass Resident. MGL c140
However the C&R, per the dealer, is a FFL and can buy firearms interstate that were not here before Oct 1998, but they cannot be sold to a private citizen due to the law stated above, also in Mass a C&R cannot sell to a private party unless you have a dealers license issued by Mass, so you have to go to a 01 FFL, but even they cannot sell prohibited firearms as stated above.
They said that certain firearms are manufactured by a very large company located in Massachusetts and therefore are under that dealers license in Mass before being sold elsewhere, so I am lucky since I am specializing in their victory revolvers. But at least I could add an Enfield No 2 revolver or a Colt if I wanted to, I just can't sell it to a Mass resident.
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