Constitutional Law

LICENSE TO CARRY AND FIREARM IDENTIFICATION APPLICATION QUESTION TO PAY ATTENTION

MASSACHUSETTS RESIDENT LTC/FID/MACHINE GUN APPLICATION FOR NEW/RENEWAL OF A FIREARMS IDENTIFICATION contains question No. 4. which asks: “Have you ever been arrested or appeared in court as a defendant for any criminal offense?” This means that if you, as an applicant, EVER appeared in front of a judge or a magistrate in ANY jurisdiction as …

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Firearm Laws and Complications From Possessing Firearms!

In October, 2013, when Shaneen Allen was charged for possessing a firearm in her car in New Jersey the arrest came as a surprising shock.  According to the Philly.com report, a single mom of two, who resides in Philadelphia, obtained a license-to-carry permit and lawfully purchased .380 Bersa Thunder handgun for self defense purposes.   The …

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Monitoring of Sensitive Information, Warrants and Legal Response!

In a recent US v. Jones, (January 2012) decision the US Supreme Court held that “the Government’s attachment of the GPS device to the vehicle, and its use of that device to monitor the vehicle’s movements, constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment.”  In Jones, the police obtained the warrant but didn’t quite properly execute …

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