Urge Committee Members - Vote "Ought Not To Pass"
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Here's how YOU can help today - Please call every member of the House Ways & Means Committee TODAY and ask them to vote "Ought Not To Pass" as written - ask that they work with GOAL and draft new legislation that everyone can support!
Points to discuss:
- It's time to throw away the term "unsuitable" in our legislation. Work with GOAL and use the "prohibited person" language - it is unconscionable to restrict the civil rights of an individual based on "suitability" - the burden of proof for denial should always be on the government. Denial based on an arbitrary "suitability" decision is discrimination at it's finest.
- Changing the issuance of FID cards from "shall issue" to "may issue" - this would give MA Chiefs of Police final say over who can legally own firearms even if the person has a perfect record! Possession of a shotgun or bolt action rifle could be illegal!
- Banning the private sale of firearms from licensed individual to licensed individual is ridiculous at best. MA residents who are issued FID/LTC permits are among the most highly vetted individuals in the Commonwealth. There is no reason to change the already restrictive laws regarding private sales.
- Granting the Attorney General even more power over which common use firearms can be legally transferred in MA is nothing but harassment of law abiding gun owners in MA. Those that deal in illegal arms sales do not pay attention to the list!
- Expanding the list of automatic disqualifiers and giving the issuing authority ability to deny a firearms license to individuals with minor misdemeanor convictions of up to 1 year is ridiculous, please see Representative Beaton's testimony from yesterday's hearing regarding this issue.
Please call every member of the House Ways & Means Committee TODAY and ask them to oppose the legislation as written - ask that they work with GOAL and draft new legislation that everyone can support!
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