Police Commissioner v. Robinson

For almost ten years the appellant Larry Robinson held a license to possess and carry firearms for the purpose of target practice. This case has its genesis in the Boston police commissioner’s revocation of that license on September 11, 1995, and in the notice the commissioner sent Robinson of that revocation. Under the pertinent provisions of G. L. c. 140, § 131, then in effect,2 the commissioner was required to send *768Robinson written notice of the revocation and his reason for revoking it. That notice was to be delivered “by hand or any other means necessary to effectuate notification to the…