The Bartley-Fox Law, enacted in Massachusetts in April, 1975, was intended to reduce the incidence of gun related crimes and illicit carrying of firearms. Investigation of crime statistics to assess the effect of the law requires the isolation of exogenous factors and...
The 1975 Massachusetts mandatory gun law, known as the (Bartley-Fox Law, removed judicial discretion and was designed to halt the drift toward lenient sentencing. The law imposed a mandatory 1-year sentence for unlicensed persons to carry a firearm away from home or...
By making the illicit carrying of a firearm punishable with a one-year “mandatory” prison term, the Massachusetts (Bartley-Fox) gun law intervenes at what ap pears to be a critical juncture—from the standpoint of deterrent effectiveness and political...
