Gun License Revocation For Gun Owner At Dedham Party Reversed

DEDHAM, MA — A Boston man who lost his license to carry because he took his gun out during a party in Dedham has his license back, but Boston Police Commissioner William B. Evans is appealing that decision in Suffolk Superior Court.

The man, who has not been identified, had his gun in his car when he went to a party in Dedham in November 2016. After gunshots went off, the man took out the gun from his trunk and placed it in his driver's side door, according to the Boston Herald.

The gun was confiscated by Dedham Police and Boston Police revoked the man's license. The decision to revoke was successfully appealed in West Roxbury District Court, where a judge ruled that the man "did what most people would have done in the same circumstances” and called the decision to revoke "arbitrary and capricious."

Evans' appeal reads that the decision to reinstate the license affects the interests of the public in "limiting the access irresponsible persons have to deadly weapons,"

Neither Evans or a court spokesperson commented further.

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