In Massachusetts, off-duty LE is exempt from the 10-round mag restriction.
Presumably, yes, due to statewide jurisdiction, state LEOs were able to carry, everywhere. It was municipal and county folks who had to be careful.
Things have evolved, thankfully. By the time I was sworn-in, in early 1984, as a Houston PD officer, I could carry in every jurisdiction, in Texas, but had to be careful in places where that certain element of LEOs were slow learners, and even then, it was merely a “defense to prosecution,” rather than an affirmative defense or exception to prosecution. We do have to be watchful, with every legislative session, for silliness such as “exception” being changed back to “a defense to prosecution,” as happened once, already. (It was fixed, in the next session.)
That is why I am extremely concerned by the occurrence of such events as the Dallas PD officer entering the wrong apartment, and shooting her neighbor. Legislators remember things like that.
Not all of these harmful changes are necessarily anti-LEO or anti-gun; sometimes it is a failure in proofreading, such as the session during which legislators were trying to better-define sex crimes, which resulted in language that seemed to prohibit virtually all sexual activity, even between consenting adults. The birth rate was unaffected, so presumably plenty of sex crimes occurred during that two-year period, until sex became legal again. (The Texas legislature meets in odd-numbered years.)
Last edited by Rex G; 02-23-2019 at 08:39 AM.
When I was going up to NYC last year for a wedding, I did my research beforehand and determined that you could only carry larger capacity magazines in NYC if you retired from LE while working in NY. Otherwise you were limited to 10 round mags.
To clarify, in NY state, both possession of a handgun and carrying a handgun requires a license and most jurisdictions will not issue a license to active LEOs.
The vast majority of retiring LEOs in NY obtain a NYS /NYC handgun license endorsed for carry with a specific endorsement for retired LEO.
As a practical matter I would assume they are relying on the NY retired LEO carry permit to determine who “retired from LE while working in NY.”