CHARDIN v. POLICE COMMISSIONER OF BOSTON

No. SJC-11196.

465 Mass. 314 (2013)

MIRKO CHARDIN v. POLICE COMMISSIONER OF BOSTON & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 4, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward F. George, Jr. , for the plaintiff.

Keith G. Langer for Commonwealth Second Amendment, Inc., amicus curiae.

William W. Porter , Assistant Attorney General, for the intervener.

Amanda E. Wall , for the defendant, was present but did not argue.

Present: IRELAND, C.J., SPINA, CORDY, BOTSFORD, GANTS, DUFFLY, & LENK, JJ.


SPINA, J.

In this case, here on a reservation and report by a single justice of this court, we consider whether the Massachusetts firearms licensing statute, G. L. c. 140, § 131 (d) (i), infringes on Mirko Chardin's right to keep and bear arms under the Second and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution because it precludes him from ever obtaining a license to carry firearms where, in 1995, he...

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