Friday News from Gun Owners' Action League

June 11th edition
Gun Owners' Action League.

In This Issue.

News Bytes. Select Local and National News Stories
H.2259 Alert! Please take action!
H.4102 Deval Patrick's "One Gun A Month" bill
Gun Trace Data.. Or Deception?
GOAL Summer Banquet with New England Patriot Matt Light
Veterans photos needed for special tribute
Candidate information needed!
Spring Fling Raffle
Upcoming Events
Women on Target, for Ladies only, sign up today!
Sign up for a great class at GOAL
Gunsmiths wanted
Note About Forwarding The Friday News

News/Editorials and other tidbits from the Web.

GOAL Video News Friday June 11, 2010
Lawmakers' snafu delays vote on Gov. Patrick gun bill A botched legislative vote today on Gov. Deval Patrick's gun crackdown in the Bay State means the bill is on hold once again.
Governor Patrick blames GOAL (again) for holding up his unconstitutional legislation."We haven't got any tools in place in terms of how we control the flow of illegal guns, how we deal with these dangerousness hearings, which is something we have proposed, for people who commit crimes using a gun...and the gun lobby is so prominent, so present up on Beacon Hill that we can't even have a conversation about it, a serious debate in the legislature about it and that bothers me..."
Victory again! 5/27/10 CORI Bill H. 4703, Proposed Anti Civil Rights Amendments defeated at State House
DEVAL PATRICK BLAMES GOAL FOR LACK OF PROGRESS ON GUN BILL 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
Oppose H.4687 Wind Energy Bill. GOAL members are well aware that we have been opposing the wind siting legislation that has been making its way through the legislature. The bill represents an enormous change in conservation and environmental permitting policy in Massachusetts for a narrowly defined politically favored industry.
Hillary Clinton and the U.N. Arms Treaty rumor. Contrary to this widely circulated e-mail, Hillary Clinton has not signed any small arms treaty. She could not have done so, in fact, because no such treaty has yet been negotiated.
Newest FBI data shows: More guns = less crime. The statistics indicate that between 2008 and 2009, as gun sales soared, the number of murders in our country decreased 7.2 percent.
Gunning for "Top Shot" Dover NH man finalist on new History Channel reality show.
Gun Rights could pose problem for Kagan. The Supreme Court nominee's stance isn't clear but the NRA has seen enough to be worried
Law Enforcement Officials hold out hope for stronger "Dangerousness" law Local law enforcement officials are hoping a bill the House passed this week to include gun felonies under the state's dangerousness statute will be strengthened when the proposal reaches a conference committee on Beacon Hill.
Brady Campaign's slipping relevancy underscored by NRA convention The Brady Campaign has not managed to push through a single piece of federal legislation in more than 15 years. Their attempt to sue the gun industry into bankruptcy using anti-gun mayors as their puppet proxies failed on legal merit and in the court of public opinion.
Civil rights and double standards: Gun owners are forced to "show papers," but media say illegal aliens shouldn't have to
SAF Accuses Brady Campaign of racism. "The Brady Campaign and their soul mates at the Violence Policy Center have consistently avoided discussing the racist underpinnings of gun control because they know it is a political minefield"
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.
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."

H.2259 Alert! Please take action!

GOAL's "Civil RIghts and Public Safety" Bill, H.2259
June 11 Update. Please take action!
As reported in May, H.2259 is extended until the end of this month. It would be a great disservice to the law abiding citizens of the Commonwealth if this bill is not released with a favorable report by the extension date.
Please see the links below for the contact information of the committee members on this bill. GOAL would like to ask all of our members, and anyone interested in making Massachusetts a safer place to live, to contact each of them and ask that they release H.2259 with a favorable report.
This bill will better enable law enforcement officers to prosecute criminals while respecting the rights of law abiding citizens.

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.

For more information about the bill please click the MassGunLawReform.com image above, or click here to go to the news information page about it on the GOAL website.

H.4102 Deval Patrick's "One Gun A Month" bill. 6/10/10 Update.

H.4102 Alert and Information Deval Patrick's "One gun a month bill"
June 10th 11:15 am update.

Update on H.4102 Judiciary Committee Action.

The vote is in, the bill was sent to the house with an "ought not to pass".

This is by no means the end of this legislation however as we now have three possible scenarios that could develop.

These are the three scenarios that could take place:

The House of Representatives can vote to accept the committee report, in which case the bill will not continue towards becoming law.

The report can be substituted for the actual bill, this would essentially disregard the "ought not to pass" report and put the bill back into play. The House could then vote on it, most likely in a formal session.

The House and the Senate could vote to send it back to the Judiciary Committee for discussion and another vote. This would take a positive majority vote from both the House and the Senate.

We will continue to follow this bill and will keep our members updated on the status.

For more information, click here to go to the GOAL webpage about this bill

Gun Trace Data.. or Deception?

The truth about gun trace data and how it is misconstrued by those that would infringe upon our Second Amendment Rights.

Editorial by GOAL Executive Director Jim Wallace.

Gun Trace Data... or Deception?

On June 7, 2010 Boston Globe blogger James Alan Fox posted an article/blog supporting Governor Patrick's gun control legislation, H.4102. The legislation includes the infamous one gun a month law, more commonly known as the "Lawful Citizens Imprisonment Act". The premise of the legislation is to imprison lawfully licensed citizens for merely purchasing more than one gun, or large capacity magazine, within a 30 day period.

Scenario under the bill: A lawfully licensed citizen follows all of the procedures for lawfully purchasing a rifle and a large capacity magazine (A very common lawful transaction.) The citizen lawfully transports the rifle and magazine back to their home and stores them according to Massachusetts law. The rifle and magazine were never loaded, never fired and never taken out of the box again. Under this scenario, the Governor's proposal would imprison the licensed purchaser for up to 2 ½ years and the licensed retailer for up to 2 ½ years.

It goes without saying that this proposal is simply a horrible idea and an insult to all lawful gun owners who are being labeled criminals by this bill.

In the blog the author uses 2009 ATF trace data to back his position or at least add supposed evidence for the need to stop lawful multiple firearm sales in a 30 day period. In his blog he states that according to this data"60% of guns associated with criminal activities within Massachusetts come from other states..." This information is supposedly evidence for the need of the proposed bill for Massachusetts and other states where guns are traced back to.

Read the rest on the goal blog http://blog.goal.org/2010/06/08/gun-trace-data-or-deception.aspx. We welcome comments!

GOAL Summer Banquet, June 19th!

Freedom Will Prevail 2010
Hurry! Ticket Sales will close on Monday June 14
Gun Owners' Action League
Summer Event June 19, 2010

By attending this special event you will help present a strong unified voice for all lawful Massachusetts gun owners. A voice that needs to be heard loud and clear on election day. Your attendance reflects the strength of our organization that just last week stopped several anti-civil rights actions at the State House.

Stand with us and be counted at "Freedom Will Prevail 2010"

Hello Everyone,

During this election year GOAL would like to invite you to join us at our "Freedom Will Prevail 2010" Summer Banquet on Saturday June 19th at the Boxborough Holiday Inn!

Purchase tickets here!

Here is why YOU should attend!

Meet great people, other GOAL members!
Have a great meal, couples stay the night at the hotel, make a weekend of it!
Guest speakers include Sandy Froman past president of the NRA, Allan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation, and Matt Light of the New England Patriots, and more!
You attendance will support GOAL in all that we do to represent your constitutional rights!
Meet and discuss Second Amendment issues with Massachusetts legislatures that will be in attendance.
Plus, by attending you will have a great chance of winning many great prizes! (see below)