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State gun storage law is argued before Massachusetts SJC
Boston, MA (Boston Globe) The Middlesex district attorney’s office
argued before the state Supreme Judicial Court yesterday that a law
that requires guns to be stored in locked containers or outfitted with
trigger locks is valid.
But
the attorney for a Billerica man charged with keeping a gun in an
unlocked carrying case said the law is negated by a recent decision of
the US Supreme Court.
While
the Supreme Court struck down a tough handgun ban last year in the
District of Columbia, the court “went out of its way to make clear that
the right to bear arms, like all rights, is not unlimited,’’ said
Assistant District Attorney Loretta M. Lillios. “It can be curtailed by
regulatory measures.
The
SJC is being asked to rule in a case in which Richard Runyan of
Billerica was charged in April 2008 with improper gun storage.
A
Lowell District Court judge threw out the charge, citing the June 2008
Supreme Court ruling in a case called District of Columbia v. Heller.
Prosecutors appealed.
Attorney
Brenden J. McMahon, representing Runyan, said the Supreme Court ruling
held not only that the district’s “wholesale ban on guns is
unconstitutional and violates the Second Amendment,’’ but that
provisions requiring trigger locks were invalid.
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