He needs a permit in his own home for what reason?
New York is that way also. You need a permit just to view and touch a gun at a gun store, or to fire a pistol at a range.
Because it's the land of overtaxed peons, Massachusetts. This might actually make a decent second amendment case, at least on the illegal possession charge.
The same thought crossed my mind. He wasn't carrying outside the home. Something's not right with this reporting, or the victim is suddenly the perp because it's Massa-2-sh_ts, home of the Swimmer.