Not quite ... never happened ...Alden said:Well, not criticizing you, but, you ARE in Massachusetts, the place that was the cradle of the Revolution and reenacts Lexington and Concord every year yet banned muzzleloading muskets for a while ...
But they did put through a "safety" law in 1998 that required trigger locks on BP arms even to the point that Col. Parker's musket that hung in the State House wore a ... wait for it ... trigger lock.
That provision has since been rescinded.