Legislative Action needed!
Please call the members of the Joint Committee on the Judiciary and ask them to OPPOSE the Governor's Bill, H.4102! (Click here for the bill summary)
As you know, the Governor has been pushing his anti-civil rights bill, "An Act to Reduce Firearm Violence" in every media outlet possible this past week, and blaming the "gun lobby" for the bill not moving forward. GOAL has just learned that the Joint Committee on the Judiciary is polling their members in order to try to release this bill favorably to the House of Representatives. Although GOAL has been trying to get the Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security to release our pro-civil rights bill, H.2259 for months, the Governor seems to have twisted the arms of the Judiciary Committee to take action on his bill.
Please contact the Committee members and urge them to reject any further "gun control" bills and OPPOSE H.4102.
If passed, H.4102 will create the following changes:
·Allow licensed firearms dealers to access the names and addresses of firearms owners, which as of right now is NOT public information. (This language is part of the "one gun a month law" and would involve licensed firearms dealers in the prosecution of lawful citizens.)
·Allow the State Police to destroy confiscated guns. ·Limit lawful gun owners to purchase one gun a month. ·Do away face to face sales/transfers-which means all sales/transfers would need to go through a licensed dealer. ·Create dangerousness hearings, holding citizens in jail without bail for simple unlicensed possession of a firearm. (This is the same language that the House just rejected last week in the CORI bill H.4703, because it would have been in violation of a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling.)
Please contact the Joint Committee members by calling their State House office and/or their District Office at the telephone numbers below:
Senator Cynthia Stone-Creem 617.722.1639
Senator Steven Baddour 617.722.1604
Senator Gale Candaras 617.722.1291 District Telephone 413.599.4785
Senator John Hart 617.722.1150
Senator Thomas McGee 617.722.1350
Senator Bruce Tarr 617.722.1600
Rep. Eugene O'Flaherty 617.722.2396 District Telephone 617.884.3350
Rep. Christopher Speranzo 617.722.2396 District Telephone 413.447.7225
Rep. James Fagan 617.722.2430 District Telephone 508.824.7000
Rep. Colleen Garry 617.722.2380
Rep. Marie St. Fleur 617.722.2030
Rep. John Fernandes 617.722.2396 District Telephone 508.473.3063
Rep. Katherine Clark 617.722.2220
Rep. Danielle Gregoire 617.722.2080
Rep. James Dwyer 617.722.2014
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