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 Local News - Top Stories Updated 5/16/2012 Full listing of stories here

matt signingGOAL Sponsors 3rd Annual Cabin Fever Dinner Dance. This past Saturday night, May 12, 2012 GOAL was lucky enough to once again be a sponsor of the 3rd Annual Cabin Fever Dinner Dance held at the Ron Burton Training Village in Hubbardston MA. The event which raised money for New England Patriot – Matt Light’s Light Foundation, Ducks Unlimited, and the Ron Burton Training Village was a resounding success.

GOAL President Jay Beard was a driving force in the event, ensuring it was well organized, and flawlessly produced. Jay was also the guest auctioneer and helped emcee the event. This was great as Jay on numerous occasions spoke of GOAL and our mission to protect and defend the Second Amendment Rights of the citizens of Massachusetts.

Woman Training with GOALMartha's Vineyard women join a national trend to gun ownership. Jon Green, who conducts training classes in Northboro for the Gun Owners Action League (GOAL), a state advocacy group, confirmed that many more women are signing up for training. "I'm seeing more and more of that," he said in a telephone interview.

He said his six-student basic firearms safety course often include more women than men, which has not always been true. "Now I see it more and more," he said.

GOAL also offers instruction programs in cooperation with other organizations. A prime example is the National Rifle Association's "Women On Target" programs.

Senator BrewerSenator Brewer takes heat - stands for citizens & our basic right to defend ourselves from those that intend harm. State Sen. Stephen Brewer has the gun-control lobby fuming over his proposal for a “stand your ground” self-defense law

Brewer’s bill removes all civil and criminal liability from people who use deadly force against their attackers in public, and it frees them from having to first try to escape the situation. The bill has 27 co-sponsors.

“We’re not trying to return to Dodge City,” Brewer said. “Quite honestly, we’re Americans and we ought to be able to stand our ground. We stood our ground in Concord and Lexington, and we seem to be losing that.”

Magnum3/21/12 The Boston Globe: "A safer society with guns". By now there’s so much evidence that higher rates of gun ownership lead to lower rates of crime that it isn’t hard to fathom why fewer and fewer Americans want to ban handguns.

According to Gallup, just 26 percent of the public now thinks the private possession of handguns should be illegal — that’s down from 60 percent half a century ago. Roughly 1 of every 4 Americans reports keeping a gun to protect themselves or their homes. Having a gun makes many people — for good reason — feel safer.

NICS Bill3/6/12 "NICS Bill" Has Public Hearing at State House. On March 6, 2012 the Joint Committee on the Judiciary held a public hearing on Governor Patrick's "NICS" bill H.3569 "An Act Relative to the Transmission of Firearms Background Check Information" The premise of the legislation is to bring Massachusetts in compliance with the latest Federal laws regarding the National Instant Check System. There are a lot of concerns with the legislation both with its premise and its actual language and clearly GOAL is not supporting it.
National News: Top Stories Updated 5/4/2012 Full listing of stories here

"Fast & Furious - BATFE - Obama Administration Scandal

Issa investigates fast and furious5/4/12 Issa releases blistering memo supporting Holder contempt citation. House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa has issued a blistering memorandum detailing his case for issuing a Contempt of Congress citation against Attorney General Eric Holder for the Justice Department’s stonewalling and cover-up on the investigation of Operation Fast and Furious. The memorandum alleges that, “For over a year, the Department has issued false denials, given answers intended to misdirect investigators, sought to intimidate witnesses, unlawfully withheld subpoenaed documents, and waited to be confronted with indisputable evidence before acknowledging uncomfortable facts.”

US Capitol4/19/12 House Passes ‘Sportsmen’s Heritage Act’ The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry, hailed today’s passage of the Sportsmen’s Heritage Act of 2012 (H.R. 4089). The bill passed the House with a 274-146 vote.

Sponsored by Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.), the bill combines four legislative priorities that will expand recreational hunting, shooting and fishing opportunities and also reaffirms existing law and heads off determined bureaucratic efforts to deny hunters and shooters from using traditional ammunition. This important legislation is supported by more than 35 national conservation and sportsmen’s groups.

“NSSF thanks Rep. Miller for his exceptional leadership in helping to expand access and opportunities for sportsmen and in protecting and preserving America’s hunting and shooting heritage,” said Lawrence G. Keane, NSSF senior vice president and general counsel. “We look forward to seeking passage of the bill in the Senate.”

Firearms Sales are up!4/19/12 Firearms Industry Helps Lead Economic Recovery; New Study Shows Growth in Jobs, Taxes Paid and Sales. Earlier today, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry, released a newly commissioned report detailing double-digit gains in jobs and other data showing the industry has been a leader in the nation’s economic recovery. The report can be viewed at http://nssf.org/impact. Firearms industry members were briefed on such remarkable statistics as the 30.6 percent increase in jobs between 2008 and 2011, a 66.5 percent increase in economic impact and a 66.5 percent increase in federal taxes paid by industry companies. Armed with the good news of the report and recognizing that jobs and the economy are of major importance in the November elections, industry executives are scheduled to meet today with elected officials during the NSSF-sponsored Congressional Fly-In.
Will other states right to carry be recognized in MA?

“Respecting States’ Rights and Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act” Introduced in U.S. Senate For the second time in as many weeks, a national Right-to-Carry reciprocity bill has been introduced in the U.S. Senate. On March 20, U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) introduced Senate Bill 2213, the “Respecting States’ Rights and Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act.” NRA strongly supports this measure. Under this self-defense bill, an individual who has met the requirements for a carry permit, or who is otherwise allowed by state law to carry a handgun, would be authorized to carry a handgun in any other state that issues such permits or does not prohibit concealed carry, subject to the laws of the state in which it is carried.

Click Here To Follow the progress - For Full Text of HR.822 Including the Amendments.

Click Here for facts about H.R.822. Click Here for more information about the amendments

President Obama - Second Amendment Issues
Obama 5/8/12 Obama Administration threatens veto over important NRA-backed provision!It comes as no surprise that the Obama Administration put out a Statement of Administration Policy saying that President Obama’s senior advisors would recommend that he veto H.R. 5326. (FY2013 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations bill). To see the statement, please click here.

Apparently, one of the reasons the President would veto H.R. 5326 is because of a NRA-backed general provision preventing funding for the new and unauthorized multiple sales reporting and registration plan proposed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE). On Thursday, April 26, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations approved this general provision offered by Congressman Rehberg (R-Mont.), by a vote of 30-19.

Without this funding restriction, the BATFE could continue to circumvent the will of Congress by collecting information on multiple-sales of long guns by Executive Branch mandate and then, centralizing records of thousands of Americans’ gun purchases, without any legal authority.

Please contact your member of Congress and tell them to leave this important provision in the bill. You can contact your member of Congress at (202) 225-3121 or by email.

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