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CHIEF OF POLICE OF THE CITY OF WORCESTER v. HOLDEN

No. SJC-11682.

470 Mass. 845 (2015)

CHIEF OF POLICE OF THE CITY OF WORCESTER v. RAYMOND J. HOLDEN, JR.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Worcester.

March 11, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mel L. Greenberg for the defendant.

Kevin M. Gould , Assistant City Solicitor ( David M. Moore , City Solicitor, with him) for the plaintiff.

Julia Kobick , Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth, amicus curiae.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Jonathan E. Lowy , Kelly Sampson , Elizabeth Burke , Jonathan L. Diesenhaus , James W. Clayton , & Anna M. Kelly , of the District of Columbia, & Kathy B. Weinman for Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

Ben T. Clements & Lila E. Slovak for Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association, Inc., & others.

Edward F. George, Jr. , & Susan Chu for Gun Owners' Action League, Inc.

Karen L. MacNutt for Commonwealth Second Amendment, Inc.

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

This case mounts a challenge under the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution1 to the constitutionality of the "suitable person" standard in G. L. c. 140, § 131 (d) and (f), as amended through St. 1998, c. 180, § 41, by which licenses...

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