Commonwealth v. Parzick

A jury found the defendant, Stephen Parzick, guilty of improper storage of a firearm in violation of G. L. c. 140, § 131L, and possession of a firearm without a valid firearm identification (FID) card, in violation of G. L. c. 269, § 10(A). In his appeal, the defendant contends that guns stored in an unlocked bedroom closet within a locked bedroom are “secured *847in a locked container,” as required by G. L. c. 140, § 131L. He also claims that (1) the licensing authority’s failure to notify him of the denial of his license renewal application entitled him to assume that his expired license…