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| 2 | 2 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 499 FILED ON: 1/13/2023 |
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| 3 | 3 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 2307 |
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| 4 | 4 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 5 | 5 | | _________________ |
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| 6 | 6 | | PRESENTED BY: |
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| 7 | 7 | | Marjorie C. Decker |
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| 8 | 8 | | _________________ |
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| 9 | 9 | | To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General |
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| 10 | 10 | | Court assembled: |
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| 11 | 11 | | The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill: |
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| 12 | 12 | | An Act relative to crime gun data reporting and analysis. |
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| 13 | 13 | | _______________ |
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| 14 | 14 | | PETITION OF: |
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| 15 | 15 | | NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :DATE ADDED:Marjorie C. Decker25th Middlesex1/10/2023Manny Cruz7th Essex1/23/2023Meghan Kilcoyne12th Worcester2/1/2023James C. Arena-DeRosa8th Middlesex2/10/2023Patrick M. O'ConnorFirst Plymouth and Norfolk3/9/2023 1 of 2 |
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| 16 | 16 | | HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 499 FILED ON: 1/13/2023 |
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| 17 | 17 | | HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 2307 |
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| 18 | 18 | | By Representative Decker of Cambridge, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2307) of |
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| 19 | 19 | | Marjorie C. Decker and others relative to crime gun data reporting and analysis. Public Safety |
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| 20 | 20 | | and Homeland Security. |
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| 21 | 21 | | [SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION |
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| 22 | 22 | | SEE HOUSE, NO. 2437 OF 2021-2022.] |
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| 23 | 23 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 24 | 24 | | _______________ |
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| 25 | 25 | | In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court |
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| 26 | 26 | | (2023-2024) |
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| 27 | 27 | | _______________ |
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| 28 | 28 | | An Act relative to crime gun data reporting and analysis. |
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| 29 | 29 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority |
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| 30 | 30 | | of the same, as follows: |
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| 31 | 31 | | 1 SECTION 1. Section 18 ¾ of Chapter 6A of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2020 |
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| 32 | 32 | | 2Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking paragraph (10) and inserting in place thereof the |
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| 33 | 33 | | 3following paragraph:- |
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| 34 | 34 | | 4 (10) to develop or solicit proposals for a university or nonprofit to develop a biennial |
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| 35 | 35 | | 5report analyzing the firearms trace data collected under section 131Q of chapter 140 of the |
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| 36 | 36 | | 6General Laws and non-identifying gun sales transaction data held by the firearms records bureau. |
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| 37 | 37 | | 7Such report shall be sent to the clerks of the house of representatives and senate, the house and |
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| 38 | 38 | | 8senate committees on ways and means and the house and senate chairs of the joint committee on |
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| 39 | 39 | | 9public safety and homeland security not later than March 1 of every even-numbered year. The |
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| 40 | 40 | | 10report shall contain, but not be limited to, the following information: (i) statistics related to 2 of 2 |
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| 41 | 41 | | 11firearms crimes; (ii) arrests and prosecutions of firearms-related offenses, to serve as an |
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| 42 | 42 | | 12examination of the effectiveness of the commonwealth’s firearms-related regulations; (iii) |
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| 43 | 43 | | 13aggregate data on the source of firearms that have been confiscated and identified as being used |
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| 44 | 44 | | 14in a crime or in an attempted or completed suicide during the report period, including aggregate |
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| 45 | 45 | | 15information on the manufacturer, state of origin and last known point of sale, transfer, loss or |
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| 46 | 46 | | 16theft of such firearms; (iv) an explanation of substantial changes in state and federal firearms- |
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| 47 | 47 | | 17related laws and firearms-related statistics in the commonwealth; (v) the effectiveness of section |
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| 48 | 48 | | 18128B of chapter 140; (vi) the effectiveness of current reporting mechanisms for lost and stolen |
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| 49 | 49 | | 19guns, including identifying the number of guns traced to crime that were determined to have |
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| 50 | 50 | | 20been lost or stolen and, of these, how many were reported lost or stolen prior to their use in the |
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| 51 | 51 | | 21commission of a crime; and (vii) firearm purchase and sales patterns as they relate to firearms |
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| 52 | 52 | | 22traced to crime, including an analysis of the number of guns traced to a crime that were |
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| 53 | 53 | | 23originally purchased from each licensed gun dealer in the commonwealth or purchased through a |
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| 54 | 54 | | 24secondary private seller; and (viii) an analysis of whether the license number used for the |
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| 55 | 55 | | 25purchase or transfer of any firearm used in a crime was associated with the purchase or transfer |
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| 56 | 56 | | 26of any other firearms, in this or any other jurisdiction, within a 12 month period prior or |
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| 57 | 57 | | 27subsequent to the sale of the recovered firearm and the total number of such firearms purchased |
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| 58 | 58 | | 28or transferred by that license holder and whether any of such firearms were also used in crime. |
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| 59 | 59 | | 29Provided, further that, all data referenced herein or relied upon in compiling the report shall |
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| 60 | 60 | | 30accompany the report in an aggregate and non-identifying format. " |
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| 61 | 61 | | 31 SECTION 2. The initial report required by this act shall include an analysis and |
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| 62 | 62 | | 32compilation of all relevant data as of August 11, 2023. |
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