Mass. school bus driver arrested after students find gun on seat

[Wendell]

NORFOLK, Mass. — A school bus driver in Norfolk was arrested Friday after students found a handgun that police say he had accidentally dropped. David Tripp, 65, of Norfolk, faces charges including reckless endangerment of a child and carrying a firearm on a school campus. Police said the gun had fallen out of Tripp’s pocket while he was cleaning the bus. Police already confiscated the handgun and said it was loaded with seven rounds. Tripp’s license to carry a firearm has been suspended and any guns he owns are being seized. He was being held by Norfolk police and is expected to be arraigned Monday.
https://bangordailynews.com/2021/05/...d-gun-on-seat/

[Lex Luthier]

Once again, it is the Estimable @Tamara with the money quote:

"Massachusetts, the cradle (and grave) of liberty."

[Totem Polar]

Once again, it is the Estimable @Tamara with the money quote:

"Massachusetts, the cradle (and grave) of liberty."

I have to agree, if the part about seizing all his guns is correct. The job’s a job: he deserved to get fired, and I can see the powers that be suspending his CCW under the circumstances, harsh though it may be.

But how this gets turned into confiscating all his guns is a concept that escapes me.

[Moylan]

In NC, bringing a gun onto school property is a felony, so around here he'd definitely lose much more than his job and permit. Still, I have no idea if they confiscate guns from someone merely charged with a felony, and don't see how they could. But the ways of leviathan are not well known to me.

[JCN]

Phlster Enigma would have prevented this....

[Ed L]

I have to agree, if the part about seizing all his guns is correct. The job’s a job: he deserved to get fired, and I can see the powers that be suspending his CCW under the circumstances, harsh though it may be.

But how this gets turned into confiscating all his guns is a concept that escapes me.

In Massachusetts you need a permit to own or possess any firearms. There are different classes of licenses, some of which allow the carry of firearms. If your license is suspended or revoked, any firearms you own are confiscated.. Also, in Massachusetts if you break certain laws, you loose your firearms license and all of your guns are confiscated.

[Totem Polar]

I get that explanation, thanks for the detail, but it’s still a *concept* that escapes me.

[GyroF-16]

I get that explanation, thanks for the detail, but it’s still a *concept* that escapes me.

+1

This is the stuff that keeps the Sons of Liberty spinning in their graves.

[LittleLebowski]

Phlster Enigma would have prevented this....

Training/proficiency would have prevented this.

[Hot Sauce]

Places Off-Limits Even With a Permit/License
Elementary/Secondary Schools - College/Universities
MGL 269.10 (j) For the purposes of this paragraph, ''firearm'' shall mean any pistol, revolver, rifle or smoothbore arm from which a shot, bullet or pellet can be discharged.

Whoever, not being a law enforcement officer and notwithstanding any license obtained by the person pursuant to chapter 140, carries on the person a firearm, loaded or unloaded, or other dangerous weapon in any building or on the grounds of any elementary or secondary school, college or university without the written authorization of the board or officer in charge of the elementary or secondary school, college or university shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000 or by imprisonment for not more than 2 years or both. A law enforcement officer may arrest without a warrant and detain a person found carrying a firearm in violation of this paragraph.