HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2177        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2246

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to the expiration of a firearm identification card or gun license..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1.  Section 129B of chapter 140 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out the words “civil fine of not less than $500 nor more than $5,000” in lines 224 and 225 and inserting in place thereof the following:- fine of not less than $5,000 nor more than $10,000 or by imprisonment in a jail for not less than 6 months nor more than 1 year or by both such fine and imprisonment.

SECTION 2.  Section 131 of said chapter 140, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out the words:- “civil fine or not less than $500 nor more than $5,000” in lines 308 and 309 and inserting in place thereof the following:- fine of not less than $5,000 nor more than $10,000 or by imprisonment in a jail for not less than 6 months nor more than 1 year or by both such fine and imprisonment.

SECTION 3.  Said chapter 140 is herby further amended by inserting after section 131 the following section:-

Section 131 ¼ .  Any application for the renewal of a firearm identification card or a license to carry firearms shall be accompanied by a photograph of the said number of the weapon, or weapons, covered thereunder.