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Annual Breakfast & Meeting of the Membership

GOAL’s Annual Meeting is mandated by our bylaws. We review our year from all aspects, this ensures full transparency for our membership.

All attendees must be members in good standing prior to the end of day – Friday, 2/15/19! Please note, there are no exceptions for this, if you want to bring a spouse, partner, friend, child, etc. they MUST be a GOAL Member.

Please note, the cost covers use of the facility and a buffet breakfast with coffee.

Date: February 17, 2019

Time: 9:00 AM Breakfast with meeting to follow

Door prize! One attendee will win a Mossberg 500 shotgun!

Location:  Maynard Rod & Gun Club, Maynard MA. 01754

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The Lucky 20 Raffle | 20 Guns - Up To 20 Chances To Win!

Lucky 20 Donations - Thank You!

GOAL’s Director of Education and Training, Jon Green was on the road yesterday picking up prizes for the Lucky 20 Raffle. Many thanks to Cape Gun Works , The Powderhorn Outfitters and Jay’s Sporting Goods for their great donations!

Mayor Walsh Wants To Require Doctors To Ask About Your Guns

Boston proposes state law requiring doctors to ask about guns in homes

Walsh administration officials said Wednesday that they will ask lawmakers to approve a bill requiring doctors to ask patients about guns in their homes to help identify risks of suicide and domestic violence.

“This is a great way for the medical field to help identify any red-flag issues,” Boston Police Commissioner William Gross said in a briefing with reporters. “It’s to put another tool in the physician’s belt to help out the victims.” link to story

The quote from Commissioner Gross is especially chilling given what we now know about ERPO legislation.

1. Going back to ERPO - doctors can now file an ERPO order - (confiscation without due process).

2. Should this new legislation pass, doctors will not only have the power to confiscate firearms, they will be REQUIRED to ask about them.

3. Doctors would become the first line of offense for gun prohibitionists - those who wish to disarm law abiding citizens.

4. This is especially troubling given anti 2A actions and rhetoric from the AMA in recent years.

Finally, we need to reinforce what we have stated regarding MA being the most dangerous state in the northeast . Boston is the most dangerous city - in the most dangerous state, in all of the Northeast, there is a drug war fueling gang violence, and our courts and prosecutors are catching and releasing the perpetrators on a daily basis ( #MACourtFails ). Nothing in these proposals will curb this violence, and that is truly sad for the communities affected by it. We hope they demand real solutions from Boston's top cop.

As of this time there is no bill number for this legislation, we will monitor this and keep our membership up to date.

Healey Civil Suit News: GOAL's Legal Team Appeals Judge Young Decision at US Court of Appeals

GOAL's legal team presented oral argument Wednesday, before federal appeals court, supporting our appeal of Judge Young's decision related to our lawsuit against AG Healey's 7/20/16 enforcement notice.

Here is a link to courtroom audio , with thanks to our friends, and partners in this litigation - Comm2A

We will notify our membership asap upon announcement of ruling from the court, please note, it could be some time before anything is announce.

GOAL Legal Fundraising Efforts Ensures Continued Litigation Efforts In MA

GOAL Exec Director Jim Wallace with Jim Porter, Chairman of the Committee and past president of the NRA.

GOAL Donates $50K to NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund.

Thanks to the dedication and generosity of GOAL members, our Executive Director Jim Wallace was able to attend the recent NRA Board and Committee meetings in Virginia. While Jim was there, he had the pleasure of attending the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund Committee meeting and presenting them with a check for $50,000.

The donation was earmarked for use in Second Amendment litigation cases originating from Massachusetts such as our case against Attorney General Maura Healey.

If you would like to help GOAL stay in the fight, please consider making a donation!

About the NRA Civil Defense Fund

The NRA created the Civil Defense Fund to support 2A litigation in the state of Massachusetts. The money from this fund supports many groups including Comm2A.

To date, the NRA has fully funded all legal fees incurred during our lawsuit against Healey. Our donation to this fund represents a small portion of what they have spent and comes directly from GOAL fundraising which was setup to support this litigation. We are happy that MA gun owners – our members are helping to continue this fight in court. Without assistance provided from this NRA fund, our court case would be not be able to continue.

#MACourtFails - Where Is The Concern For Public Safety From Our AG and Legislature?

"I understand that that stuff can happen, you know. People get out. People do bad things. You can't control that, ultimately,"

-Attorney General Maura Healey, speaking in defense of Judge Feeley.

The #MACourtFails campaign was started to raise awareness about our failing courts and criminal justice reform system, and how our elected officials would rather pass laws restricting what law abiding people do, than address the actual causations of “gun violence”.

"Known gang member" who punched cop in eye before fleeing to avoid arrest, who was then arrested after pursuit with loaded firearm, gets probation - charges dropped.  

Court report: Tyvon W., 28, of Worcester, was sentenced to 2½ years in the House of Correction after pleading guilty to carrying a firearm without a license. The balance of the sentence was suspended for 2 years with probation. He was sentenced to a concurrent term of 2 years in the House of Correction after pleading guilty to assault and battery on a police officer. The balance of the sentence was suspended for 2 years with probation. He was placed on two concurrent terms of 2 years’ probation after pleading guilty to carrying a loaded firearm without a license and resisting arrest. As a condition of probation, he was ordered not to possess weapons. A charge of possession of ammunition without a firearm ID card was dismissed.

Criminal who shot into crowd of people - wounding two, gets arrested in Worcester on gun charges a year later. He is now released on time served.

He was arrested for shooting the two people in 2012, then with a firearm in 2013, yet he was released on time served and today is a free man. Here is a list of his charges since 2011: assault with a dangerous weapon and using a firearm while committing a crime of violence that resulted in injury (shooting two people in front of a nightclub); possession of a firearm by a person who has been convicted of a crime of violence; firing in a compact area; and possession of stolen goods (firearm), carrying a firearm without a license, carrying a loaded firearm without a license, possession of ammunition without a firearm ID card, (subsequent offense), assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, armed robbery, armed carjacking and kidnapping. Link to story

Criminal arrested a year ago on gun charges now arrested for New Years Eve shooting - murder.

Just over a year after being arrested on gun possession charges, this  #MACourtFails  alum is arrested again for the NYE shooting , this time with two guns. Once again, if  #MALeg  were serious about "gun violence" there would be a lot more outrage about this. Link to story

MACourtFails Archive! This page will make your head spin . We put a few months worth of #MACourtFails on an archived web page. Please feel free to share this with your legislators, and ask them where the concern for public safety is, that they all had during ERPO?

Lots of new class dates being posted on the GOAL training schedule, take a look and sign up for a class today!

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