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General Information
Massachusetts requires a state license for firearms dealers.
Massachusetts law covers many other areas, too numerous to mention in this brief review. For example, the following actions are prohibited:
discharging a gun within 150 feet of a state or hard-surfaced road or highway [Chapter 131, section 58];
discharging a gun within 500 feet of a building or dwelling in use without the permission of the resident;
selling a gun to a minor;
providing a handgun to a minor;
selling a gun to unlicensed persons;
trespassing on posted land with guns;
possession of an air rifle by a minor (unless in the presence of an adult) without a special permit; and
possession on any school grounds without prior written permission.
Chapter 269: Section 12B. Air rifles; possession by minors; shooting
Section 12B. No minor under the age of eighteen shall have an air rifle or so-called BB gun in his possession while in any place to which the public has a right of access unless he is accompanied by an adult or unless he is the holder of a sporting or hunting license and has on his person a permit from the chief of police of the town in which he resides granting him the right of such possession. No person shall discharge a BB shot, pellet or other object from an air rifle or so-called BB gun into, from or across any street, alley, public way or railroad or railway right of way, and no minor under the age of eighteen shall discharge a BB shot, pellet or other object from an air rifle or BB gun unless he is accompanied by an adult or is the holder of a sporting or hunting license. Whoever violates this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, and the air rifle or BB gun or other weapon shall be confiscated. Upon a conviction of a violation of this section the air rifle or BB gun or other weapon shall, by the written authority of the court, be forwarded to the colonel of the state police, who may dispose of said article in the same manner as prescribed in section ten.
Chapter 269: Section 12A. Air rifles; sale to minors
Section 12A. Whoever sells to a minor under the age of eighteen or whoever, not being the parent, guardian or adult teacher or instructor, furnishes to a minor under the age of eighteen an air rifle or so-called BB gun, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than six months.
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