WESSON v. TOWN OF SALISBURY

Civil Action No. 13-10469-RGS.

13 F.Supp.3d 171 (2014)

Michael WESSON, Thomas Woods, and Commonwealth Second Amendment, Inc. v. TOWN OF SALISBURY and Thomas Fowler, in his official capacity as Chief of the Salisbury Police Department and Town of Natick and James G. Hicks, in his official capacity as Chief of the Natick Police Department and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as Intervenor-Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

Signed April 18, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey T. Scrimo , Lynch Scrimo , Lenox, MA, for Michael Wesson, Thomas Woods, and Commonwealth Second Amendment, Inc.

Thomas W. McEnaney , Gregg J. Corbo , Janelle M. Austin , Kopelman and Paige, PC, Boston, MA, Geoffrey P. Wermuth , Murphy, Hesse, Toomey & Lehane, LLP, Quincy, MA, for Town of Salisbury, Thomas Fowler, Town of Natick, and James G. Hicks.

William W. Porter , Attorney General's Office, Boston, MA, for Intervenor-Defendant.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

STEARNS, District Judge.

This case raises a Second Amendment challenge to the licensing scheme of the Massachusetts Gun Control Act of 1998. The essential facts are not in dispute. Plaintiff Michael Wesson is a sixty-five-year-old resident of Salisbury, Massachusetts. In 1973, Wesson was convicted in Maine of misdemeanor possession of a small amount of marihuana (a "joint") and paid a $300 fine...

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