3rd Generation Frame, MA Legal Question

[Dave C]

1- My understanding is that the frame, not the slide is "the gun". That is, if the frame is pre-ban then the gun is pre-ban, regardless of the manufacturing date of the slide or barrel. This is relevant to me in that I sent a slide back to Glock that had broken (where the recoil spring sets in the front of the slide, the circular part below the barrel hole). I assume they can send me a new slide manufactured whenever. Is this true?

2- I have a chance to buy a 3rd generation G19 frame with a 1989 manufactured slide. The frame is post ban owned by a private party. Apparently the owner had a cracked frame and Glock sent him a post ban frame. I am surprised because I had a G23 with a cracked frame and they told me they WOULD HAVE sent me a new frame except I was in MA, so they sent me a re-built G23 MA compliant. I know I could not buy this frame from a FFD, but is it legal for me to buy it from a private party? Are state troopers going to show up at my door in two years when the paper work crosses over the wrong persons desk?

I'm sorry to sound so paranoid, but those of you from MA understand my nervousness about the laws here. I certainly don't want to risk losing my LTC for a frame. I live in a very gun-un-friendly town and as much as I'd like the gun, I won't risk any crossing the line activity that puts my license at risk.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[lens]

Dave,

The law affects ONLY FFL transfers. They can't transfer any Glock made post-10/21/98 to any non-LEO in MA under any circumstances.

The law has nothing to do with private ownership or private transfers.

The frame is a gun as far as the Feds are concerned, but MA being run by the stupidest excuses for human waste "on the hill" defines a "gun" as something ready to be fired. Thus, a frame is NOT a gun as far as MA is concerned under MGL. However convincing Glock (at the highest levels in the US) of this has been a futile effort that both I and another well-known to Glock person have undertaken.

Thus, Glock could have replaced your G23 frame with a brand new G23 Gen 3 frame HAD THEY WANTED TO DO SO (all within the law). After a prior battle with the MA AG, Glock has turned tail and hidden in their underground bunker and thus will refuse service to MA gun owners in some circumstances . . . but this is strictly a corporate decision and not one based on MGL.

BTW, there are no such things as "MA compliant Glocks" only those exempt from the regs/law due to age or the fact that they were sold to LEOs.

99.99% of MA LEOs have no idea what is banned, what can be sold/purchased or who can sell/own what when it comes to gun laws. I wouldn't worry about the Gestapo at your door . . . except in the City of Boston where it will be led by Mumbles Menino . . . just insist on a translator if he comes to your door! :rofl: