The state governments of Massachusetts and California both have lists of allowed firearms and criteria - 'moonbat' or not - that firearms must meet to be legally owned within these states.
Both have large populations of relatively wealthy families. (Lots of not-so-wealthy citizens also, of course, but they don't have as much of a say in "how things shall be".)
You have to wonder why firearms laws are so bizarre in these two states, relative to the other 48.
I see no particular reason to relocate to either state, if you do not already live there. (There are perfectly wonderful graduate schools in many other states that have far more rational firearms laws...)
Best to all of you who are sentenced by fate to live in one of the two "Democratic People's Republics of..."