Bill Text: MA H1311 | 2009-2010 | 186th General Court | Introduced
Bill Title: Penalties for breaking and entering a firearm retail wholesaler or manufacturer
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-01-20 - Public Hearing date 7/14 at 12:00 PM in Gardner Auditorium [H1311 Detail]
Download: Massachusetts-2009-H1311-Introduced.html
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PRESENTED BY:
Christine E. Canavan
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To the
Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:
The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the passage of the accompanying bill:
An Act regarding breaking and entering of a firearm retailer, wholesaler or manufacturer.
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PETITION OF:
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Name: |
District/Address: |
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Gale D. Candaras |
First Hampden and Hampshire |
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Linda Dorcena Forry |
12th Suffolk |
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Michael Brady |
9th Plymouth |
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David L. Flynn |
8th Plymouth |
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George N. Peterson, Jr. |
9th Worcester |
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Todd M. Smola |
1st Hampden |
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Susan Williams Gifford |
2nd Plymouth |
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Bradley H. Jones, Jr. |
20th Middlesex |
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Stephen R. Canessa |
12th Bristol |
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Stephen M. Brewer |
Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin |
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Lida E. Harkins |
13th Norfolk |
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Carlo P. Basile |
1st Suffolk |
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Denis E. Guyer |
2nd Berkshire |
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Robert M. Koczera |
11th Bristol |
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Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr. |
12th Hampden |
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John J. Binienda |
17th Worcester |
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Frank I. Smizik |
15th Norfolk |
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Bruce E. Tarr |
First Essex and Middlesex |
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James E. Timilty |
Bristol and Norfolk |
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Elizabeth Poirier |
14th Bristol |
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Anne M. Gobi |
5th Worcester |
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Cory Atkins |
14th Middlesex |
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Jennifer M. Callahan |
18th Worcester |
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John W. Scibak |
2nd Hampshire |
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John F. Quinn |
9th Bristol |
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Louis L. Kafka |
8th Norfolk |
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Paul McMurtry |
11th Norfolk |
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William G. Greene, Jr. |
22nd Middlesex |
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Karyn E. Polito |
11th Worcester |
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Peter v. Kocot |
1st Hampshire |
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Donald F. Humason, Jr. |
4th Hampden |
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Harold P. Naughton, Jr. |
12th Worcester |
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David B. Sullivan |
6th Bristol |
The Commonwealth of
Massachusetts
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In the Year Two Thousand and Nine
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An Act regarding breaking and entering of a firearm retailer,
wholesaler or manufacturer.
Be
it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court
assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Chapter 269 of the Massachusetts General Laws shall be amended by inserting the following section:
Section 10F. Breaking and Entering of a Firearm Retailer, Wholesaler or Manufacturer
(A) Whoever in the nighttime or the daytime breaks and enters any building in which a firearm retailer, wholesaler or manufacturer conducts business shall be subject to a fine of not less than $5,000 nor more than $10,000 or by imprisonment for not less than five years nor more than ten years or by both such fine and imprisonment.
(B) Whoever in the nighttime or the daytime breaks and enters any building in which a firearm retailer, wholesaler or manufacturer conducts business with the intent to unlawfully obtain a firearm, rifle, shotgun, machinegun or ammunition shall be subject to a fine of not less than $5,000 nor more than $10,000 or by imprisonment for not less than five years nor more than ten years or by both such fine and imprisonment.
(C) Whoever unlawfully obtains a firearm, rifle, shotgun, machinegun or ammunition by means of breaking and entering, in the nighttime or the daytime, any building in which a firearm retailer, wholesaler or manufacturer conducts business and who unlawfully distributes said firearm, rifle, shotgun, machinegun or ammunition shall be subject to a fine of not less than $10,000 or by imprisonment for not less than ten years nor more than twenty years or by both such fine and imprisonment.
