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New Hampshire residents passing through Massachusetts should be allowed to carry their legally owned guns without being charged with a crime, Attorney General John Formella sought to persuade a Bay State court last year.

It didn’t work. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled its state’s laws should apply to two New Hampshire residents who were charged with carrying unlicensed firearms.

Now, Formella is trying to convince the nation’s highest bench to take on the case

He filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday alongside 24 other states, arguing that non-Massachusetts residents can’t be reasonably expected

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