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Friday News!
May 7th edition
Gun Owners' Action League.
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In This Issue.- News Bytes. Select Local and National News Stories
- Support State Representative Richard Ross
- GOAL Succeeds in protecting Massachusetts Fish and Wildlife funding.
- GOAL Affiliated Club Events
- GOAL Summer Banquet with New England Patriot Matt Light
- A special request
- Candidate information needed!
- Spring Fling Raffle
- GOAL Cup News
- Women on Target, for Ladies only, sign up today!
- Sign up for a great class at GOAL
- Note About Forwarding The Friday News
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News/Editorials and other tidbits from the Web.
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- S.1580 Receives an extension order. GOAL's "An Act Relative to the Common
Defense"
Bill, S.1580 has received an extension order from the Judiciary
Committee to June 30th. Please continue to call and ask for this bill
to be released with a favorable report.
- MA. Deer population is thriving. It's hard to ignore the presence of white-tailed deer in Massachusetts
when they outnumber the populations of Abington, Braintree, Halifax,
Duxbury and Cohasset combined.
FA 10 Firearms transfer issues 4/30 update: MA EOPS
has now updated their website with a "Temporary FA10" form that is a
downloadable PDF. According to their website
Billerica Town Meeting Alert! Gun Owners' Action
League (GOAL) has recently been made aware of an article in the Town
Warrant to be brought before the Town Meeting May 13th 2010.
Mass Chiefs Openly Discuss Licensing Abuse "Liability is only increased by
failing to comply with the statutory licensing requirements or
exceeding one's authority regarding how those licenses are issued or
regulated."
- CSU lifts gun ban. Colorado State University-Pueblo's recently approved weapons policy,
which banned concealed weapons, was shelved Wednesday by the system's
Board of Governors.
Federal Judge rules against Heller decision. The gun grabbers in Washington are celebrating a
federal ruling handed down Friday that upheld the tangle of rules that
effectively prohibit District residents from owning firearms for the
purpose of home defense.
- H2259 Gets an extension 3/17/10. According to Joint Rule 10 of the
Massachusetts legislature all joint committees must act on bills by mid
March. GOAL's bill is within the Joint Committee on Public Safety and
Homeland Security.
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Support State Representative Richard Ross for Senate!
|  SPECIAL ELECTION MAY 11TH! This will be to fill the MA State Senate seat representing Norfolk, Bristol, & Middlesex Counties left vacant by Scott Brown.
GOAL is officially endorsing State Representative Richard Ross. Representative Ross is rated "A+" by GOAL. During the 2008 legislative session Representative Ross voted with GOAL on 3 separate occasions including H.5029 (see quote from bill below)
"Resolved, That the Massachusetts House of Representatives joins in the opinion of the United States Supreme Court and officially recognizes that the Second Amendment to the Constitution does protect an individual civil right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia and protects an individual civil right to use arms for traditionally lawful purposes and protects the lawful use of arms for self-defense within the home and officially recognizes that the core lawful purpose of the Second Amendment to the Constitution is self defense; and be it further Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded by the Clerk of the House of Representatives to Gun Owners' Action League.
This Document"
If you live in Norfolk, Bristol, or Middlesex Counties please give Representative Ross all of your support
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GOAL Succeeds in Protecting Fish and Wildlife Funding
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 April 30, 2010
During the last week of
April 2010 the Massachusetts House of Representatives debated the fiscal year
2011 state budget. Prior to the debates taking place, the House members were required
to submit any proposed amendments to the budget. When these amendments were
posted for the general public Gun Owners' Action League (GOAL) alerted our
members to several threats to professional wildlife management here in the
Commonwealth. We are pleased to say that the calls from our members and the
hard work of friendly legislators were successful!
Two amendments were filed
to the FY2011 House budget that would have diverted millions of dollars from
the Inland Fisheries and Game Fund. The
proposed amendments, #149 and #152 filed by Representative James Murphy of the
4th Norfolk District were ultimately defeated! More.... |
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Upcoming Events
| GOAL Affiliated Club Events:
If your club is
officially affiliated with Gun Owners' Action League and is running an event of some sort, here is where you can advertise it.
Please email me the
information (who, what, when, where, how much) or a link to your web page. For a full
listing of shooting competitions go to www.goalshooters.org.
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GOAL Summer Banquet, June 19th!
| Matt Light of the
New England Patriots will be a guest speaker | GOAL Summer Banquet!
Join us, Saturday June 19that the Boxborough Holiday Inn, Boxborough MA.
We are very pleased to announce the following guest speakers;
- Matt Light of the New England Patriots
- Alan Gottleib from Second Amendment Foundation
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A special request to Veterans and Family Members of.
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The GOAL Staff is putting together a special photo tribute to our Veterans.
This tribute will be shown at our Summer Banquet on June 19th (see above for details)
If you have a military photograph of yourself, a friend, or a family member that you would like to share, please email it to me, mike@goal.org.
Thank you all!
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We need help with Candidates!
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Help us, help you, make great decisions on election day!
One of the fantastic after effects of Scott Brown being elected is a new resurgence of people that are willing to not only get involved by working for campaigns, but also to run for office.
There are more new candidates running for office this November within Massachusetts than we can recall seeing for a long time. In order to sort through them we are asking for some help. If you are a candidate for a county, state, or national office, or if you know or work for a candidate, please ask them to fill out one of our new candidate questionnaires.
This will give us a great read on how much a candidate knows, and cares about Second Amendment Issues. After completing we will grade the questionnaire and post that grade on our Candidate Ratings Pages. (See below)
*Note: The U.S. Congress ratings are courtesy of the NRA. Also note that ALL of our current incumbents up for re-election have an "F" grade.
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Spring Fling Raffle!
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Spring is here and that means it's
time for the Spring Fling Raffle!
Support GOAL and enter for a
chance to win a great shopping trip at Kittery Trading Post!
The prizes are as follows:
- 1st Prize: $1,000.00
Kittery Trading Post Gift Card
- 2nd Prize: $500.00 Kittery
Trading Post Gift Card
- 3rd Prize: $250.00 Kittery
Trading Post Gift Card
Click here to purchase online
Click here to download a mailable order form
You can also purchase tickets
by phone @ 508-393-5333 or in person at the GOAL office
Thanks and best of luck all!
If you would like to see the
winners from our Annual Raffle,
click here
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GOAL Cup News
|  GOAL Cup Trap Shoot, Saturday April 17th, 2010 Wrap up of the days events, what a great day of shooting!
GOAL Cup Team Challenge Smallbore Competition at Harvard Sportsmen's Club Saturday May 15th. More info/Sign up!
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Women on Target!
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The GOAL Foundation presents Women On Target eventsall over
Massachusetts. If you are interested in a great day of fun and education
for ladies only check out our listing of scheduled events!
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Great Classes available at GOAL!
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New classes added at The GOAL Foundation! Powerpoint for Trainers, June 24th, brand new course, learn to make a great presentation!
NRA Coach Training Course - Smallbore & Air Rifle Learn to be a Junior level 1 coach! Full Schedule of courses here!
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AN IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT FORWARDING THE FRIDAY NEWS!
Dear subscribers, it has come to our attention that some of you have become "unsubscribed" from our e-mailings as of late.
This is due to the method used when forwarding this e-mail. PLEASE NOTE, if you would like to forward this e-mail, use the "forward" option at the bottom of this page.
Forwarding this email as you would any other could cause you to become unsubscribed should any of the recipients choose to "opt out".
If you ever do need to subscribe, or if you know anybody that would like to receive this, it is now easier than ever to get on our list, simply go to www.GOAL.org and scroll down to the bottom of any page, we have an automated subscription set up.
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Thanks to all for supporting GOAL!
Join/Support GOAL, Massachusett's Official Firearms Association of the National Rifle Association.
Protecting YOUR freedom begins here!
Sincerely,
Mike Sweeney
GOAL Communications Manager
Gun Owners' Action League
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