STEARNS, D.J.
The Petition, as originally filed by Henry Ibanez on July 16, 2013, challenged on Second Amendment grounds the requirement of Mass. Gen. Laws, ch. 278, § 7, that a person charged with the illegal possession of a firearm produce "some evidence" at trial that he is licensed to do so, or suffer an adverse inference to the contrary. See Commonwealth v. Jones, 372 Mass. 403, 409, 361 N.E.2d 1308 (1977); Commonwealth v. Powell, 459 Mass. 572, 582, 946 N.E.2d 114 (2011). Ibanez argued that the section 7 presumption amounted to an unconstitutional shifting of the burden of proof by failing to treat the absence of a license to carry firearms as an element of the offense (rather than as an affirmative defense). On January 8, 2014, Magistrate Judge Collings stayed further proceedings on the petition after a hearing at which the court and the parties recognized that the same legal issue was pending before the First Circuit in the case of Powell v. Tompkins.
Ordinarily, that would have ended the matter. However, on April 13, 2016, Petitioner filed a Supplemental Memorandum with this court suggesting that a very recent Supreme Court decision could be read to expand the Second Amendment right to possess firearms in defense of "hearth and home" that the Court had recognized in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570, 579, 128 S.Ct. 2783, 171 L.Ed.2d 637 (2008).
Defining the contours of the right to possess a firearm outside of the home is a work in progress. This court, for example, has previously held that a Massachusetts citizen without a firearms license, who nonetheless has been issued a valid Firearm Identification Card, has the right to transport an otherwise legally possessed firearm outside of his or her home for purposes of target practice. See Wesson v. Town of Salisbury, 13 F.Supp.3d 171, 178 (D.Mass.2014) (ordering the defendant Chiefs of Police "to give prompt consideration to any application of plaintiffs for the necessary and/or licenses to maintain firearms for self-defense in their homes and, subject to such reasonable restrictions as the licensing authorities may decide to impose, to transport them to lawful locations for the purposes of practice shooting.").
This, however, is a habeas case. Under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, "a federal court may not issue a habeas petition `with respect to any claim that was adjudicated on the merits in State court proceedings' unless the state court decision: 1) `was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States;' or 2) `was based on an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence presented in the State court proceeding.'" McCambridge v. Hall, 303 F.3d 24, 34 (1st Cir.2002), quoting 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) (Supp. II 1996). A decision is "contrary to" clearly established federal law "if the state court arrives at a conclusion opposite to that reached by [the Supreme Court] on a question of law or if the state court decides a case differently than [the Supreme Court] has on a set of materially indistinguishable facts." Williams v. Taylor, 529 U.S. 362, 412-413, 120 S.Ct. 1495, 146 L.Ed.2d 389 (2000). A decision represents an "unreasonable application" of clearly established federal law "if the state court identifies the correct governing principle from [the Supreme Court's] decisions but unreasonably applies that principle to the facts of the prisoner's case." Id. at 413, 120 S.Ct. 1495. The focus in determining "clearly established federal law" is the time of the last adjudication on the merits in state court, and not at the point at which the petitioner's conviction became final. Greene v. Fisher, ___ U.S. ___, 132 S.Ct. 38, 44-45, 181 L.Ed.2d 336 (2011).
SO ORDERED.