Attorneys General Stand with Amicus Brief Challenging Massachusetts’s Firearm Licensing for Nonresidents

Florida, Tennessee, and Texas, along with 23 other states, have filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, urging it to invalidate Massachusetts’s firearm licensing requirements for nonresidents.

The coalition argues that these requirements violate the Second Amendment by creating an unconstitutional burden on out-of-state travelers.

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti said, “Tennesseans’ Second Amendment rights don’t just disappear when they visit Massachusetts.”

The brief supports a challenge to a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling that upheld the state’s license-to-carry regime, even when applied to law-abiding travelers from other states who cannot reas

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