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Massachusetts High Court Upholds Restriction on Gun Permits
By jjie.org - James Swift
Published: 06/06/2013

On Tuesday, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts shot down a petitioner’s claim that a state law — forbidding the issuance of firearm carry permits to individuals who, as juveniles, committed felonies — was unconstitutional.

Mirko Chardin, now 33, was adjudicated as a delinquent for carrying an unlicensed pistol when he was 14. Because of that charge, he was denied a permit in 2010. Later that year, Chardin filed a judicial review complaint in the Boston Municipal Court, with a judge ordering a dismissal in favor of the Police Commissioner in March 2011. Chardin was eventually granted a full court hearing in April 2012.

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