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