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 July 9th editionGun Owners' Action League. |
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In This
Issue.
- News
Bytes. Select Local and National News Stories
- H.4102 Deval Patrick's "Lawful Citizens Imprisonment Act" back in play.
- Dog Days of Summer Fundraiser, win 2 AR Modern Sporting Rifles!
- H.4102 Is Governor Patrick now in favor of profiling?
- McDonald v. Chicago, Civil Rights Prevail!
- SCOTUS Drops the Hammer on Anti-Civil Rights Arguments
- H.4102 Deval Patrick's "One Gun A Month" bill
- GOAL's "Freedom Will Prevail" 2010 a Great
time!
- GOAL's Executive Director Jim Wallace to run for NRA Board
- Gun Trace Data.. Or Deception?
- Candidate
information needed!
- Spring
Fling Raffle winners!
- 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
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News/Editorials and other tidbits from the Web.
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- GOAL Video News Friday July 9, 2010
FID/LTC Permits issued down in MA this year?
The number of gun permits issued locally and statewide in 2009 was
roughly one-third the total granted two years earlier, but the dramatic
figures may not add up to much, police, activists and business owners
say.
Argument against proposed "Gun Bill" - Yes
folks, it's true. Governor Deval Patrick is pushing his
one-gun-a-month bill again, known as House Bill H4102, which would
imprison lawfully-licensed citizens for purchasing more than one gun in a
30-day period.
Five Gun Salute, the High Court's four liberals are
holding out to overturn Heller this suggests that the
liberals have decided to bide their time and wait for a fifth vote so
they can overturn both Heller and McDonald. This means that the matter
of Second Amendment rights is far from settled, and the National
Rifle Association and other advocates had better keep their legal
guard up. - More video! from WGBH, Rep George Peterson and Rep David Lynsky discuss both sides of the "Lawful Citizens Imprisonment Act" proposed by Governor Patrick. (Scroll down to June 30th story)
Argument against proposed "Gun Bill" - Yes
folks, it's true. Governor Deval Patrick is pushing his
one-gun-a-month bill again, known as House Bill H4102, which would
imprison lawfully-licensed citizens for purchasing more than one gun in a
30-day period. -
Guns Save Lives The
National Academy of Sciences reviewed dozens of studies and could not
find a single gun regulation that clearly led to reduced violent
crime or murder.
- Read more Local stories on goalnews.org-local here
- Read more National stories on goalnews.org-national here
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H.4102 "Lawful Citizens Imprisonment Act" back in play.
|  GOAL has learned that the
House Ways and Means Committee has begun to poll its members on the
Governor's Bill, H.4102. As you know, if passed, this bill will make it
illegal to purchase more than one gun in a one-month period, make
private sales/transfers obsolete, etc.
Please call the House Ways and Means Committee members and urge
them not to support the Governor's "Lawful Citizens Imprisonment Act"
and instead, support GOAL's Bill, H.2259.
Click here for contact information of the House Ways and Means Committee
Also, please
contact your State Representative as well and urge them to contact
the Committee Members with the same message.
Click here for a line by line analysis about why H.4102 is such poor legislation.
Click here for contact information for your state Representative and
Senator
Click here to download talking points comparing
H.4102 & H.2259
We will continue to follow this bill and will keep our members
updated on the status as more information becomes available. For more information, click here to go to the GOAL web page about this bill
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Dog Days of Summer Fundraiser!
| 2010 Dog Days of Summer Fundraiser
GOAL's Annual Dog Days Fund Raiser is back! This year we have a great prize!
2 AR style Modern Sporting Rifles, a carbine, and a rifle, winner gets both!
For every $25 donation, you will receive a free entry to win both the AR-15 16"and AR-15 20"Rifles.
Winners will be announced at the First Annual GOAL "Shoot-B-Q" at the Harvard Sportsmen's Club on September 25, 2010 (check our events page for info)
Many thanks to Acme Armament and Remsport for their generous donations!
Click here to download the order form
We will have these available for purchase online soon!
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GOAL Executive Director Jim Wallace:
H.4102 is Governor Patrick now in favor of profiling?
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H.4102, is Massachusetts Governor now in Favor of
Profiling?
July 09, 2010
Since the beginning of Deval Patrick's term as Governor here
in the Commonwealth he has been touting the importance of his "Lawful Citizens
Imprisonment Act." The bill, H.4102, has been named that for some time as the
main emphasis of the legislation is to imprison lawfully licensed citizens for
exercising their civil rights.
With everything that is required of a citizen in
Massachusetts to become a licensed gun owner and to actually purchase, take
home, and store any kind of firearm (33 steps to accomplish that task), the Governor's
solution to crime is to put us in prison for doing it twice. This victimless,
made up crime that is being proposed is bad enough, but does it represent a
major policy shift for the Governor?
In his nearly four years in office, the Governor has given
countless interviews regarding "profiling". Just this past May when the state
of Arizona passed a state law in an attempt to deal with the growing dangers on
their border, Governor Patrick slammed Arizona for "profiling". Most citizens
in Arizona disagree with his opinion on the law, but the Governor insists it is
bad law because it is a profiling law. Setting aside the debate over the
Arizona law, let us take a closer look at Governor Patrick's position on
profiling.
Read the rest on GOAL.org
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McDonald v. Chicago. Civil Rights Prevail!
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 Statement from GOAL Executive Director Jim Wallace.
Second Amendment IS a Civil Right
On Monday, June 28, 2010 the Supreme Court
of the United States released a landmark civil rights decision in the
case of McDonald
v. City of Chicago. In the 5 - 4 ruling the Court's
decision was very simple, "...we hold that the Second Amendment right is
fully applicable to the states. We therefore hold that the Due Process
Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates the Second Amendment
right recognized in Heller."
"The citizens of Massachusetts should all be
joining together in celebration over this ruling," said Jim Wallace
Executive Director of Gun Owners' Action League. "Both the lawful gun
owner and those living in high crime areas will finally get relief from
the misguided laws and policies regarding firearms in Massachusetts.
This ruling will finally force the political leaders of the
Commonwealth to give up on the failed social experiment of gun control.
It will also force them to roll up their sleeves and start doing the
hard work of going after the human criminal element, a job some have so
far strove to put off."
Read the rest on GOAL.org
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GOAL's Executive Director to Run for NRA Board
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Let's get one of our own on the board!
Jim Wallace, Executive Director of Gun Owners' Action League is
announcing his intention to run for the Board of Directors of the
National Rifle Association.
"I have spent nearly ten years now professionally representing the
interests of lawful gun owners and sportsmen in Massachusetts in what is
certainly a Second Amendment battle ground state," said Jim Wallace.
"In that time I believe I have gained the knowledge and experience that
could be of value to the NRA on the national front."
For those who would like to support Jim in his campaign for NRA Board of
Directors there are nomination forms in this month's NRA magazines. The
deadline for submission is on the form. For the information needed to
fill out the form, please email Jim at: jimwallace@goal.org.
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Gun Trace Data.. or Deception?
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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.
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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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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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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!
Full Schedule of courses here!
email or call Tara @ GOAL to sign up or for more information.
508-393-5333 x203
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Gunsmiths 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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GOAL Communications Manager
Gun Owners' Action League
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