Massachusetts Gun Registry Deadline Lands Six Days Before the Question 9 Vote

Massachusetts set its gun registry deadline for Oct. 28, six days before Question 9 asks voters whether to keep the 2024 law behind it, and the repeal is led by a gun-shop owner, Toby Leary. Healey's emergency provision, which put the law in force two years before the vote, has turned compliance itself into the repeal side's best argument. The timing has made the registry the face of the measure, even though the assault-style ban expansion matters more to what dealers can put on the shelf.