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Friday News!
May 14th edition
Gun Owners' Action League.
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In This Issue.- News Bytes. Select Local and National News Stories
- Deval Patrick blames GOAL for lack of progress on his gun bill.
- Oppose S.2260 (formerly S.2245)
- 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
- Gunsmith's wanted
- Welcome new GOAL Staff Member Tara McGrath
- Note About Forwarding The Friday News
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News/Editorials and other tidbits from the Web.
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- H2259 Gets another extension 5/14/2010 update, H. 2259 has now been extended to 6/30/10 for
discussion. Please continue to contact the committee members and your
legislators and urge them to vote favorably on this bill.
- Billerica
Town Meeting Alert! May 14th
Update. We win again! GOAL has learned that article #38
has been withdrawn due to the amount of opposition it faced from law
abiding hunters and gun owners.
FA 10
Firearms transfer issues May 14th Update. As many of you know, the CHSB
uploaded the FA10 form onto their website on April 30th. We just now
noticed that they FINALLY updated it to a correct form that includes
instructions/codes etc...
- 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.
- Richard Ross wins Senate seat. Capitalizing
on a Republican resurgence, state Rep. Richard Ross won the state
Senate seat formerly held by his friend and political mentor Scott
Brown Tuesday by an overwhelming margin.
- 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.
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."
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.
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Deval Patrick blames GOAL for lack of progress on gun bill. GOAL responds.
| PATRICK TAGS GUN LOBBY WITH LACK OF PROGRESS ON
GUN BILL
By Jim O'Sullivan
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE
 STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, MAY 10, 2010...... Gov. Deval Patrick blamed
firearms lobbyists Monday for his gun control legislation's lack of
progress amid another murder of a child over the weekend, drawing a
quick rebuke from the Gun Owners Action League, who called Patrick's
bill flawed and ineffective.
Hours after speaking with the mother of Jaewon Martin, the
14-year-old murdered on a Boston basketball court Saturday, Patrick
told reporters, "Look, there's a lot of volume that the gun lobby has
in this building, but it seems to me that people in neighborhoods,
those mothers that are losing their children on the streets of our
cities, the law enforcement who are having to deal with the
proliferation of illegal firearms out there, used in the course of crime
- those voices need to be raised, and those voices are greater in
number, and I think at the end of the day greater in significance than
the gun lobby."
The state's top firearms policy group said Patrick had
mischaracterized lobbyists' work.
James Wallace, executive director of GOAL, replied, "My first
question is: Who's the gun lobby? ... I don't lobby for guns, I lobby for
people. That's one of the tools they use to dehumanize us. We lobby
for . . . civil rights and public safety."
More on GOAL.org
Watch GOAL Executive Director Jim Wallace's video reply here.
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Oppose S.2260 (formerly S.2245)
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 Please call your legislators today and let them know that you are opposed to this bill becoming law!
GOAL Executive Director Jim Wallace's letter in opposition
May 11, 2010
Re: Opposition
to S.2260 - "An Act Relative to Comprehensive Siting Reform for Land Based
Wind Projects"
Dear Member
of the Massachusetts House of Representatives,
It has come
to our attention that the House of Representatives may be taking up S.2260, the
Wind Siting Reform Act, as early as next week. On behalf of the members of Gun
Owners' Action League, I would like to take this opportunity to once again
express our deep concerns over this legislation. The premise of the legislation
is to create a fast track permitting system for an industry that has become
politically favored by certain groups and individuals.
Since the
summer of 2009 Gun Owners' Action League has continued to ask pertinent
questions regarding the need and the implications of the legislation.
To date
these critical questions have never been answered.
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Why
does this particular industry need a fast track permitting system?
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If
Massachusetts provides a means for this particular industry to bypass the
normal environmental permitting system, will this lead to legal and legislative
challenges from other industries demanding the same ability?
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If
so-called "green energy" can't pass the muster of the current environmental
laws, then how can it be called environmentally friendly?
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Should
not the challenge for "green" industry be that it should be able to set an
example for all other industries by easily passing any environmental challenge
set before it?
As
the state's leading conservationists, gun owners and sportsmen/women have led
the way in professional wildlife management and habitat protection. We have
carefully and purposefully carried out a series of historic and sustainable
programs that have withstood the test of science and time.
On
the national scale there is the Migratory Waterfowl Stamp and the
Pittman-Robinson program. These efforts by gun owners and sportsmen/women have
resulted in establishment of wildlife refuges and habitat programs throughout
the nation.
On
a more local level, we worked to establish and maintain the Inland Fisheries
and Game Fund and the Wildlands Stamp Acquisition program. Both of these are
almost completely funded by gun owners and sportsmen/women.
Read the rest on GOAL.org
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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! NRA Range Safety Officer Course @ Essex County
Sportsmen's Association
Full Schedule of courses here!
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Gunsmith's wanted!
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We are going to be adding a listing page of local gunsmith's to GOAL.org.
If you are a GOAL member and a gunsmith and would like to be added please email me your contact information and we will get you listed.
Please include.
- all pertinent contact info
- what types of guns you work on
- what you specialize in
- any other pertinent information.
Please email it to me. mike@goal.org.
Thanks
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Please welcome new GOAL Staff Member Tara McGrath
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 GOAL is pleased to announce that we have hired a new Staff Member.
Tara McGrath joins us as our new Assistant Director of Education and Training, and will be working closely with Jon Green.
Her job duties include overseeing class operations, networking with GOAL Affiliated Clubs, and organizing GOAL training events.
Please join us in welcoming Tara to the GOAL Staff, she can be reached via email at tara@goal.org or via phone at the GOAL office 508-393-5333 x203
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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.
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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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