Posted on 11/30/2018 11:55:24 AM PST by SleeperCatcher
Privacy Violation: A Massachusetts landlord has asked a Harvard University graduate student to move out of her apartment after her roommates pilfered through her belongings and found her legally-owned handguns.
As reported by the Washington Free Beacon, the student, Leyla Pirnie, says that Dave Lewis, president of Avid Management, asked her to move because now her roomies feel “uncomfortable” knowing there are guns about.
“Since it’s clear that Leyla wants to keep her firearms, it would be best for all parties if she finds another place to live,” he told the website in an email.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenationalsentinel.com ...
Ditto Michigan since the 1970s. We did recently update our handgun purchase law so that you no longer need a purchase permit if you buy from an FFL, you just need to turn in the registration slip after the purchase. (Yes, Michigan also registers all handguns.)
If you buy a handgun face to face from an individual, and you do not have a CPL, then you still need to acquire a purchase permit from the police ahead of time.
Sounds like an odd arrangement, where the landlord has separate lease agreements with multiple roommates who apparently aren’t friends. This sounds more like a boarding house than an apartment building.
After the SCOTUS decision in Caetano v Massachusetts I wonder how long *that* requirement would last in the Federal courts.
That’s good to know. Our chief out here suggested that carrying in Boston was probably not a good idea.
The Free Beacon story is a little better. The gun owner locked her bedroom while away. Her roommates broke into her room and rummaged through her things and found the guns. The chief of police told the gun owner to buy a safe to store her guns, in which she did. Her roommates said either the guns go or we will move out. The landlord said if the gun owner stays by herself with her guns then she has to pay the whole rent.
It has been stopped by the USSC. Right to possess a working handgun in your home DC v Heller.
I know people who have LTC and do often while in Boston. Never an issue.
Harvard is.
The second amendment "gave" you nothing.
The ones I know are either generally amoral money-grubbing Wall Street hacks who will mouth whatever slogans they need to, or outright leftist ideologues, mostly in government.
Maybe I need a much larger sample to find some conservative ones.
“The landlord owns the property. It is his business.
I thought businesses could ban guns on their property.”
Owning a business or property does not give you the right to violate someone’s constitutional rights. If it is in the lease, that is one thing.
“Owning a business or property does not give you the right to violate someone’s constitutional rights.”
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What about theaters that ban firearms?
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There are four types of invasion of privacy claims recognized in Massachusetts: (1) intrusion of a person’s physical solitude or seclusion;...
In the Commonwealth, this right is controlled by a statute which states that “a person shall have a right against unreasonable, substantial or serious interference with his privacy. The superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity to enforce such right and in connection therewith to award damages.”
The first claim, intrusion of a person’s physical solitude or seclusion, must have the following elements: an intentional intrusion; upon the seclusion, solitude or private affairs of another; which would be highly offensive to a reasonable person. Specifically, interference with the plaintiff’s seclusion or intrusion into “must be substantial and of a kind that would be highly offensive and objectionable to the ordinary reasonable man.”
Landlords and businesses have a right to declare their spaces a gun free zone and if someone commits a crime on that property, folks hurt cannot sue the owners because they maintain the victims did not have to live or do business there... really sucks. Best advice is to avoid those places if possible otherwise get in and get out quickly. Wouldn’t it be ironic those girls still living there were attacked because of there public stance?
My daughter rents a house with two other girls. One of them found out my daughter owns a pistol and went all snowflakey.
She said that she would buy my daughter a lockbox since the very presence of the gun made her feel unsafe.
My daughter told her roommate she would use the box provided she be able to give the roommate a short handgun orientation and safety session.
Her roommate bought the box but it sits unopened since she never kept up the other side of the bargain.
“Your police are infringing on a right given to you recognized by the Constitution.
“The second amendment “gave” you nothing.”
So sorry to step on your toes with the term “given.”/S
But I’ll step harder about your term “recognized.”
The term in the Preamble is “ do ordain and establish,” I don’t find recognized.
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