UPDATED Legal Analysis of the Act Modernizing Firearm Laws Chapter 135 of the Acts of 2024 ONLINE WITH ZOOM FORMAT
2024-11-20
ONLINE with convenient ZOOM Platform
Instructor: Chief (Ret.) John Moore, Esq.
From 9:00am to 1:00pm
Registration: 9:00am
On July 25, 2024 Governor Healey signed into law a comprehensive firearms statute entitled, “An Act Modernizing Firearms Laws”. In this training the attendees will learn about all the changes and additions to our current laws relative to firearms, and suggestions on how to move forward under these new guidelines.
The training will address the following:
· New and changed definitions
· Changes to the licensing process (MGLc.140)
· Affects of the new law on public records
· Affects of the new law on our mental health statutes
· Information sharing practices under the new law
· Timelines for the effective dates of the new law
· Implications to restraining orders, and harassment orders
· Revisions to sections of Crimes Against Persons, Crimes Against Property, and Crimes Against Public Peace
· Affect on Bail Procedures to include Dangerousness Hearings
· Serialization practices
· Sales of firearms
· New DCJIS dashboard features
· Statutory and Suitability factors under the new law
· Appeals of Denials
· Nonresident Carry aspects
· Changes to Extreme Risk Protection Orders (“red flag law”)
· Task Forces and Studies that will be undertaken
· Timelines for regulations to follow from EOPSS, DCJIS, and the State Police
· How the U.S. Supreme Court Bruen Decision is squared with the law
· How the SJC Guardado Decision figures into the new law in regards to the prosecution’s burden of proving a lack of a firearms license, and the follow up case of Commonwealth v. Quentin Smith (to be argued before the SJC), which may further clarify Guardado
· How the cases of Comm. V. Donnell and Comm. V. Marquis (argued before the SJC on September 9, 2024) will affect the law regarding out of state constitutional carry incidents (Opinions expected in December of 2024)
· Discussion on how the new law will change administrative procedures at police agencies
· Expected Challenges from Second Amendment Groups, and eventually from aggrieved defendants appealing their results from the enforcement of the provisions under this law
· Initial guidance issued by MPTC, EOPSS, and the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association issued in October of 2024
· The impact of Governor Healey’s Emergency Preamble to the bill, signed October 2, 2024
· …and any other related subject matters brought up by attendees
Register Now» Offline registration: pheagney@policelegacy.com or call 508-989-9848
» Cost: $199 USD per official.