Section 10A. Any person, other than a federally licensed firearms manufacturer, an authorized agent of the municipal police training committee, or a duly authorized sworn law enforcement officer while acting within the scope of official duties and under the direct authorization of the police chief or his designee, or the colonel of the state police, who sells or keeps for sale, or offers, or gives or disposes of by any means other than submitting to an authorized law enforcement agency, or uses or possesses any instrument, attachment, weapon or appliance for causing the firing of any gun, revolver, pistol or other firearm to be silent or intended to lessen or muffle the noise of the firing of any gun, revolver, pistol or other firearm, including any combination of parts designed or redesigned and intended for use in assembling or fabricating any such instrument, attachment, weapon or appliance and any part intended only for use in such assembly or fabrication, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than five years in state prison or for not more than two and one-half years in a jail or house of correction. Nothing contained herein shall be construed to prohibit a federally licensed firearms manufacturer from selling such instrument, attachment, weapon, appliance or parts to authorized law enforcement agencies for law enforcement purposes or to the municipal police training committee for law enforcement training. Upon conviction of a violation of this section, the instrument, attachment or other article shall be confiscated by the commonwealth and forwarded, by the authority of the written order of the court, to the colonel of the state police, who shall destroy said article.
Notes of Decisions
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1 in the last 5 years), 1996–2025 · leading case:
Commonwealth v. Forish, 812 N.E.2d 281 (Mass. App. Ct. 2004).
Commonwealth v. Forish, 812 N.E.2d 281 (Mass. App. Ct. 2004).
“The Commonwealth filed a nolle prosequi to an indictment for possession of a silencer (G. L. c. 269, § 10A). 2 At the bench trial, the Commonwealth and the defendant entered a stipulation of facts that, with certain differences immaterial to resolution of the appellate issues,…”
Commonwealth v. Green, 770 N.E.2d 995 (Mass. App. Ct. 2002).
“The defendant was also convicted of illegal possession of a firearm, G. L. c. 269, § 10A, and illegal possession of ammunition, G.”
Commonwealth v. Bachman, 673 N.E.2d 90 (Mass. App. Ct. 1996).
“269, *758 § 10(A), and one count of unlawful possession of a silencer, see G. L. c. 269 § 10A. The defendant makes no claim to an exemption from the application of the statutes relating to the possession of ammunition or a silencer.”
Commonwealth v. Golding, 86 Mass. App. Ct. 55 (Mass. App. Ct. 2014).
“269, § 10[c]), and possession of a silencer (G. L. c. 269, § 10A). 1 The judge found that the defendant had participated in an exchange of drugs for firearms with an undercover special agent of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).”
Commonwealth v. Manuel Burgos. (Mass. App. Ct. 2025).
· cites it 2× “269, § 10 (h) (1); selling, using, or possessing a firearm silencer, G. L. c. 269, § 10A; and carrying a firearm without a license, G.”
Commonwealth v. Golding, 104 N.E.3d 682 (Mass. App. Ct. 2018).
“269, § 10( c ) (charges 2-3), and possession of a silencer, G. L. c. 269, § 10A (charge 13). Sentencing on all charges occurred after the trial.”
Fisher v. Kew (D. Mass. 2019).
“) Plaintiff was indicted by a Middlesex County grand jury for knowingly having in his possession a large capacity weapon without a license, in violation of Mass. Gen. L. c. 269, § 10A and § 10M; being an armed career criminal, in violation of Mass.”
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