AMERICAN SHOOTING SPORTS COUNCIL, INC. v. ATTORNEY GENERAL


429 Mass. 871 (1999)

AMERICAN SHOOTING SPORTS COUNCIL, INC., & others v. ATTORNEY GENERAL.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 30, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glenn Kaplan, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.

Frank A. Libby, Jr., for the plaintiffs.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Michael E. Malamut for Associated Industries of Massachusetts.

John A. Wortmann, Jr., & Michael Paris for Center to Prevent Handgun Violence & others.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, GREANEY, FRIED, MARSHALL, & IRELAND, JJ.


GREANEY, J.

We are asked to determine whether the Attorney General lacked authority under G. L. c. 93A, § 2 (c), to promulgate 940 Code Mass. Regs. §§ 16.00 et seq. (1997), in particular, §§ 16.03, 16.04, 16.05, 16.06(3), and 16.07, which define deceptive or unfair acts or practices in the transfer, or offer to transfer, of certain types of handguns to a consumer in the Commonwealth. The regulations...

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