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Good Evening,

The Department understands the need to provide access to Basic Firearm Safety courses to citizens of the Commonwealth seeking to obtain a license to carry a firearm.  We are working with the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security (EOPSS) to clarify the statutory interpretation of the new firearms law.  Regarding the basic safety firearms courses, and concerns related to the opportunity to obtain a License to Carry before the effective date of the law, individuals will not be required to take the new course called for under the law, including the live-fire requirement, until the law goes into effect. Please be advised that you are free to offer Basic Firearms Safety courses in their current format.   

Please note, the Department will be sharing additional guidance as it becomes available.

Sincerely,

Kristin

Kristin M. Ryan

Firearms Licensing

Massachusetts State Police

470 Worcester Road

Framingham, MA 01702

www.mafirearmsafety.com

Mark Shean

Recently a representative of the Ma State Police contacted all state firearm instructors about participating in adding suicide prevention to the class curriculum. I will get back to that in a moment.

The House of representatives drafted and voted/passed gun control bill 4420 last year that, in its entirety, for anyone reading it, was unconstitutional on many levels. It was so bad that Law Enforcement all over the state openly said that if it was enacted, that they would not enforce it. The bill was forwarded to the state Senate, where they should have abandoned the the bill completely. Instead, the Senate decided to try to make it more palatable to law enforcement by toning it down somewhat. It will remain unconstitutional on many levels, just not quite as much so.

The revised bill is supposed to be voted on and enacted sometime this year, (2024) before the legislature takes its recess. That being said, the curriculum firearm instructors currently give will dramatically change. And in my opinion, not for the better. I will get back to that in a moment.

Now, back to the suicide prevention that instructors are being asked to consider addressing in their classes. Firearms instructors are being asked to become quasi mental health professionals. When a class is given, and the information involving current laws, and longer standing firearm safety practices explained, no one can know for sure what is in the hearts and minds of people, or what circumstances may impact them in the future to cause them to harm themselves or others. That is well beyond the purview/control of any class or firearm instructor.

A question arises, if someone who takes a class, and down the road at some point in the future unfortunately kills himself, will the firearm instructor be held liable? Will the family of the suicide victim hold the state liable? Or both?

Part of the bill being considered by the Senate now, is that people must shoot during the class. That is not currently a requirement for good cause/reason, liability. The police will not issue a firearm license in Ma without first doing a lengthy background check, this can take on average 4 months. They do this to make sure a person is a ‘good’ responsible person. Firearm instructors do not have the ability/authority to vet people by doing background checks, yet the legislature somehow thinks that it would be a good idea for instructors to hand unvetted people firearms to shoot as part of a class. If the person is injured somehow, who will be held liable? The state or the firearm instructor? Or both? If made mandatory, it has LIABILITY in capital letters written all over it.

Or worse, we cannot know what is in someone’s heart, their intensions may be to get a firearm to shoot themselves or everyone around them in a terrorist inspired act. Who is liable? Having unvetted people shooting as part of the class not only endangers the instructor(s), but everyone in the class. Our representatives certainly/obviously did not think this through. The way it is currently is much safer for instructors and the public. In my opinion.

Law Enforcement takes an oath, in part they swear to uphold the public trust, they also swear to uphold the Constitution. One cannot be disregarded without disregarding both. This concept seems lost on politicians as a whole.

Mark Shean

After going through the 116 pages of logs there are questions that stand out. Under the law for private and commercial flights, 49 U.S. Code 44909, Passenger Manifests, there are up to 6 criteria that must be followed. A. Full name, B. Passport # if international flight, C. A contact name and phone # D. sex, E. Date of birth, F. Visa # or resident alien card # if applicable. And it must be correct accurate and complete, given to the Customs Service upon request.

Knowing these REQUIREMENTS, and after carefully looking at all 116 pages, from 11-17-1995 through 12-28-2015, I found that on 215 log entries, instead of names there were question marks given (?) as a passenger! In another 86 entries there were only initials, partial names, or ‘staff’, ‘nanny’, ‘unknown’, ‘illegible’ given where a full name is REQUIRED by law! So this made 301 ILLEGAL log entries in the time frame shown!

Were many of these entries abducted children? Where was the Customs Service? Were they really this incompetent or were they complicit in child sex trafficking’s? On ALL pages of these logs, not once was all the criteria followed that was REQUIRED information by LAW! NONE of the criteria was followed! Many flights were international! Was this part of a world wide child sex operation?! And Customs officials were involved, looking the other way!? The complete lack or protocol/laws followed point in that direction!

Part 8, Epstein Flight logs, (final) starting on page 109 to last page 116.
On page 109 two (?) instead of names, more initials listed and three new names up to page 110. Alan Dershowitz shows up on four flights going from Ma. to Quebec and from Ma. to NJ, but never south to the Virgin Islands. There are six (?) on page 111. From page 112 through 116, dates from 3-3-06 all the way through 12-28-2015 it becomes very disturbing, not one name listed at all on the logs, only 117 (?) listed, from flights all around the US and a few international, mainly going to the St. Thomas Virgin Islands???? ARE THESE ALL CHILDREN!!? There are dozens of (?) listed up to page 112, but then it explodes! I will put out a summary tomorrow that will probably lead to the Custom Service and their HUGE failures under the law concerning these logs. I will cite the laws.

Part 7, Epstein Flight logs, starting on page 100 to 108. Six new/additional names appear as ‘guests’, so 146 so far. One new pilot appears, a Bill Murphy, that makes 7 pilots listed since 1995 to 2005. Pilots should have some tales to tell under oath I would suspect. From 100-108 there are many more incomplete log entries. No less than 15 question marks (?) where names should be, why so many (?), children perhaps? Many more initials listed and partial names listed, what are these people afraid of? Part 8 will go to the end of the pages, (116) tomorrow. Part 9 will be an initial summary of all this on Monday. After that a dive into each name to find out who these people are/were. NOTE: A Sarah Kellen is a frequent flyer since the beginning, she loves the Islands?

Part 6, Epstein Flight logs, starting on page 89 to 100. Twenty new/additional names pop up, so now there are about 140 total people, oblivious to what Epstein and Maxwell are up to? Personally I doubt that so many of these jet setter types are that naïve. From page 89-100 there are many entries into the flight logs that are coded, why? or make no sense at all. Where a name should be, there are initials or partial names or simply a question mark (?). A new pilot shows up on page 99. Nanny shows up twice on 97, nanny for who? Are flight logs supposed to be official? Are they supposed to be regulated for accurate content? Who is supposed to be responsible in maintaining flight logs if anyone? Good questions to ask. Are the coded entries, initials, and (?) marks all children? If everything is legitimate, these logs should not be riddled throughout with faulty entries! Part 7 tomorrow starting on page 101.

Part 5, Epstein Flight logs, starting on page 82 to 88. There are three mor (?) question marks where names should be on pages 82 and 83, children?
On 11-4-03 Bill Clinton and 4 secret service are logged on, from the 4th to the 11th they go to Oslo Norway, to Stockholm Sweden, to Novosibirsk Russia, to Hong Kong, to Chengdu China, to Beijing China, to Anchorage Alaska, on page 84, busy bees…..
A ‘Carolina’, no last name, child? No full names for an LC and AM? Children? Alan Dershowitz gets on and hops from Ma. to NJ and NJ to West Palm Beach on 2-5-2004. Nothing suspicious? Just getting a lift. Another incomplete name, ‘AM’/ going to the Virgin Islands, a child? There are and additional 11 names that are new to me, so this brings Jeff’s ‘friends to around 121 names so far…
Tomorrow will be part 6.

Part 4, Epstein Flight logs, starting on page 76 forward to 81. An additional 16 new names show up, this is only up into 2003 so far. On pages 77-81 Brent Tindell is listed as ‘Chef’, Larry Morrison, Barry Massion, and Gary Roxburgh are all listed as ‘Pilots’ for the first time. As far as I am concerned, they all probably have some interesting tales to tell if put under oath… There is an E.M. and a J.K. listed on 5-20-03, and a Julie K. listed on 5-30-03 to the Virgin Islands, same person as J.K.? A (?) listed to the Virgin Islands on 5-5-03, a child? Four entries from 7-18-19-29-2003 all listed as (?), going to Virgin Islands, more children? Two strange entries on page 81, MACKLA and MYLENE ? Why the code names? Who enters the names into the logs? Is it the Pilot, who? That person should be subpoenaed under oath.
More tomorrow. These people are disgusting, I get no good vibes from this.

Part 3 Epstein flight logs. Starting on page 68-75 24 new names appear, along with reoccurring names from the beginning. So, up through page 75 there are are 94 names so far, going to the Virgin Islands and other far flung places. Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacy appear beginning on pg. 68 forward starting on 9-21-02 with at least 12 others trough 9-29-02. They go to Santa Maria Portugal, then Ghana, Nigeria, Kigali Rwanda, Maputo Mozambique, Cape Town South Africa, Johannesburg Africa, back to Accra Ghana. All in a 10 day period. Are these places children are bought and sold? Page 70-75, many entries show simply “passenger” or ‘male’ or ‘female’ or ‘staff’ or strangely, “reposition” going to St. Thomas Virgin Islands, it makes my sixth sense crawl with dread, and my blood boil for these ‘unknowns’. I will start on page 75 tomorrow. There are 116 pages in all, but this takes time.

Epstein Flight log’s part 2. Previously I had gone to page 45, in this I go 45-68. Of the 46 reoccurring names going to the Virgin Islands and the Bahamas, there are 14 additional names up to page 59, names I am not familiar with, non the less. From pages 61-68 it starts getting curious, there are 10 more new names, (24) all together, but the destinations are intriguing, the flights start going to the Philippines, Hong Cong, Japan, China, Indonesia, back to the Great Exuma Bahamas. On the flight logs, instead of names being listed, you see ‘female’, ‘male’, ‘passenger’, or only a first name, sometimes just a question mark,? I have to seriously wonder if these are children being abducted from these far off places? Tomorrow, it starts getting really interesting with names that I do recognize.