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Firearms Licensing Application Procedure
Please email all applications to our firearms licensing email address.
After satisfying the below requirements for the type of license you are applying for, please contact the Firearms Licensing Office to arrange for an appointment to process your application:
Firearms Licensing
Phone: 508-653-2424
Email Firearms Licensing
The Firearms Licensing Officer will contact you about arranging a time to come to the Sherborn Police station and process your application. Please plan on spending at least thirty minutes at the station for photographs and fingerprints where applicable.
Note: Appointments are subject to last minute cancellation due to emergency call prioritization. Please call the front desk at 508-653-2424 approximately 15 minutes prior to arriving at the station to confirm.
Requirements
Completed Commonwealth of Massachusetts Firearms Licensing Application referenced above. Applicants may pick up the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Firearms Licensing Application at the front desk of the Sherborn Police Department 24 hours a day or may be downloaded.
- Applicants for firearms licensing must be residents of Sherborn or own a business in Sherborn.
- Applicants must submit the following photocopies:
- Birth Certificate or Citizenship Papers (whichever applies)
- MA Drivers License or ID card with current address on front
- License to Carry applicants for Class A or Class B or Class E (License to Possess a Machine Gun) must be twenty-one (21) years of age.
- First time applicants must provide a copy of an approved Firearms Safety Certificate with the application.
Application Fees
- License to Carry Class A and Class B and Class E (Machine Gun License) are $100, payable through Unibank.
- The application fee is non-refundable.
All applicants will be reviewed and evaluated by licensing authority.
If requested for employment purposes, a letter from employer on company letterhead requesting issuance and reason for request must accompany the application.
Renewals
- Renewal applicants are eligible to submit their application within 90 days of the expiration of their current license.
- Completed Commonwealth of Massachusetts Firearms Licensing Application referenced above. Applicants may pick up the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Firearms Licensing Application at the front desk of the Sherborn Police Department 24 hours a day or may download online.
- Application Fees
- License to Carry Class A and Class E (Machine Gun License) are $100, payable by Unibank. Applicants over the age of 70 have no fee for Class A and Class B license applications.
- Note: The application fee is non-refundable.
- All applicants will be reviewed and evaluated by licensing authority.
- All renewals need to submit an affidavit (PDF) that they have not lost or had any firearms stolen.
- If requested for employment purposes, a letter from employer on company letterhead requesting issuance and reason for request must accompany the application.
Requirements
- Completed Commonwealth of Massachusetts Firearms licensing Application referenced above. Applicants may pick up the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Firearms Licensing Application at the front desk of the Sherborn Police Department 24 hours a day or may download online.
- Applicants for firearms licensing must be residents of Sherborn or own a business in Sherborn.
- Applicants must submit the following photocopies:
- Birth Certificate or Citizenship Papers (whichever applies)
- MA Drivers License or ID card with current address on front
- Firearms Identification Card applicants must be at least fifteen (15) years of age. Applicants between the ages of fifteen and eighteen must provide a letter granting permission from a parent or legal guardian.
- First time applicants for Firearms Identification Card (Class C) must provide a copy of an approved Firearms Safety Certificate with the application.
- Application Fees
- Firearms Identification Card Class C is $100, payable by Unibank.
- Note: The application fee is non-refundable.
- All applicants will be reviewed and evaluated by licensing authority.
- If requested for employment purposes, a letter from employer on company letterhead requesting issuance and reason for request must accompany the application.
Renewals
- Renewal applicants are eligible to submit their application within 90 days of the expiration of their current license.
- Completed Commonwealth of Massachusetts Firearms Licensing Application referenced above. Applicants may pick up the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Firearms Licensing Application at the front desk of the Sherborn Police Department 24 hours a day or may download online.
- Application Fees:
- Firearms Identification Card Class C is $100. Payable by Unibank.
- Applicants over the age of 70 have no fee for Class A and Class B license applications.
- Note: The application fee is non-refundable.
- All applicants will be reviewed and evaluated by licensing authority.
- If requested for employment purposes, a letter from employer on company letterhead requesting issuance and reason for request must accompany the application.