FIREARMS LICENSING AND RENEWALS
Items required to obtain a license
are:
A completed
application form.
A check for $100.00 made out to the Town of
For new licenses, a certificate showing completion of the appropriate Basic Firearms Safety course for the type of license applied for (License to Carry or Firearms Identification Card). The Hunter Safety course sponsored by the Environmental Police is sufficient for the FID. Not required for renewals.
The photographs needed will be taken at the New Braintree Police Department at no charge.
Fingerprints will be taken for new licenses and renewals of licenses with numbers that do not end with a letter.
Safety courses are offered by:
North Brookfield Sportsmen's Club
Call Don Fedler at 508-867-6645 for information and registration.
John Kozlowski
413-967-4461
kozlow@massed.net
For laws, safety classes and other information: http://www.goal.org/
Question #
10 on the
application
Have you ever appeared in any court as a defendant for any
criminal or criminal traffic offense? You do not have to put down non-criminal
traffic offenses (Key word, appeared, not necessarily
arrested)
Having been arrested and convicted of a crime does not necessarily
prohibit you from getting a L T C or F I D. Not putting it
down does.
Understand that “ever appeared” includes all adult and juvenile
appearances. It does not matter if you were found not guilty or if the
charges
were dismissed or continued without a finding;
you have to put it down. If you do not answer truthfully we will find out, no
matter how long
ago. If you have a sealed record, let us know.
(you do not have to tell us what is in the sealed
record) We do get notified of sealed record disqualifiers.
We will not accept “I forgot,” “They told me it would not show up,” “It
never showed up before” or “That was so long ago.”
Make any changes now.
Remember you are signing under the penalties of perjury and you will be denied a
license for that and face court prosecution for perjury.
Although I have applications forms at the office, you might find it most convenient to download them from the Firearms Record Bureau site: http://www.state.ma.us/chsb/frb.html.