In This Issue.
- News from the Web
- Firearms Bills To Be Heard May 12th
- Lowell City Council Proposal Could Result In Jail Time For Lawful Gun Owners
- Reminder, Vote May 10th!
- New Products Available
- Upcoming Events
- Donation - Volunteer Request
- The GOAL Foundation 2011 Course Schedule
- Affiliated Club Info
- Note for Facebook Users
- Note About Forwarding The Friday News
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News/Editorials and other tidbits from the Web.
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Firearms Bills To Be Heard May 12!
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Public Safety Committee Firearms Hearings May 12th.
We have the first committee hearing date, it is scheduled for May 12th at the State House at 1pm in room A2.
We do not know which room or bills will be considered at this time and will update as soon as we do.
Your presence at these committee meetings can and will make a difference.
Please click here for more information.
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Lowell City Council Proposal Could Result in Jail Time for Lawful Gun Owners.
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GOAL will closely follow the progress of this proposed legislation and will alert our members if and when there is a public hearing.
LOWELL -- When thieves broke into a home in the Acre neighborhood on a weekend in early January and stole about 40 guns from a homemade vault, police were not notified until the homeowner returned to his property early the next week.
Since then, two men have been indicted for their alleged roles in the crime, but just a handful of the guns stolen from 9 Dublin St. have been recovered.
"Those weapons are out on the street and in the hands of criminals," said Lowell Police Superintendent Kenneth Lavallee.
In order to prevent similar incidents in Lowell and the movement of guns from the hands of law-abiding citizens to lawbreakers, Lavallee, Middlesex District Attorney Gerard Leone and Rep. Kevin Murphy helped city officials craft a home-rule petition seeking the power to require owners of 10 or more firearms to notify police of the weapons' location within 24 hours of possessing them.
The proposed law would also require owners of more than 10 firearms to secure them in a locked safe or vault and install an alarm system with central monitoring that would notify police when the alarm is activated.
The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to send the home-rule petition to the state Legislature. If the proposal receives state approval, Lowell would be the only community in the state requiring residents who possess large numbers of firearms to tell the city of their location and install an alarm system, Lavallee and gun-owner advocates said.
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Reminder: Vote May 10th!
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 GOAL Would like to remind the residents of the 6th Worcester and 10th Middlesex districts of the state general election for the vacant house seats.
GOAL Endorses;
6th Worcester: Geraldo Alicea
10th Middlesex: James Dixon
If you live in either of these districts please get out and protect your civil rights by voting for these candidates!
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New Products Available!
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We have been working hard to improve the GOAL Online Store and have some new products available! Check them out!
 | | GOAL Shield Logo Pin $4.00 |
 | | GOAL Skinner Buck Knife $60.00 |
Check out the entire GOAL online store here!
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Donation - Volunteer Request
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 Can you help us out?
We need donated items to use as raffle prizes at our "Freedom Rising" Summer Banquet on Saturday June 18, 2011
These items should be new, but do not have to be firearms related, as a matter of fact non firearms related items often do very well.
If you have an item that you would like to donate, please contact Tara at the GOAL office 508-393-5333 x203. Thanks!
Also, if you would like to volunteer to help us out at the Banquet please send an email to Angela Fisher.
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The GOAL Foundation 2011 Course Schedule
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New classes added at The GOAL Foundation!
Click here for our 2011 Schedule! Open Classes, sign up soon, these will fill up fast! - Utah CCW
- Metallic Cartridge Reloading, *NEW ONE DAY CLASS*
- New! Special 2 Day Combat Focus Shooting with Rob Pincus Class July 9&10 2011, click here for more information
email or call Tara @ GOAL to sign up, or for more information.
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Notes for Affiliated Clubs
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Is your club affiliated with GOAL? If you don't know check out our listing of GOAL Affiliated Clubs here, if your club is not on the list please have your club officer contact Tara at the GOAL office.
Click here for more information about the benefits of being an affiliated club.
Sign your members up to get the Friday News Directly from GOAL!
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This way they get the news and our action alerts as they are sent.
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Also, please note! Some of our clubs have let their affiliation lapse. Please check out our Affiliated Club Listing page to see if your club is listed. If your club is not listed, and you think it should be, please have your club president/manager/GOAL rep contact Tara at the GOAL Office 508-393-5333 x203 or tara@goal.org
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Note for Facebook and Twitter users
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Check them out at the bottom of most pages on goal.org and on the rest of our family of websites going forward
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