WILKINS, C.J.
In the Superior Court a judge found the defendant guilty of "unlawfully carry[ing] under her control in a motor vehicle a certain firearm without authority." G.L.c. 269, § 10. The case comes to us on report (G.L.c. 278, § 30) of two questions: (1) Whether knowledge, actual or constructive, is a necessary element of the crime. (2) If it is, whether the fact that the firearms were in a vehicle owned and being operated by the defendant creates...
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