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Are you a GOAL member? Poll + free giveaway!
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lord1234, I added a little disclaimer to your OP so people don't keep saying "Don't count me in"
I am a member thanks to a karma earlier this year (thanks again, Lord1234).
My dad won a membership in the raffle at TVI shoot (I was going to get him a GOAL memberhsip for Fathers Day anyway).
I was at Pete's in Hudson NH on Saturday when a woman from Chelmsford came in to ask about buying a gun. The woman behind the counter gave a long diatribe on MA saying it'll take 3 or 4 months before she could get her license.
I stopped the woman who asked the question on her way out to tell her about Women on Target and explained how there's a class next Sunday at Westford, but she said she was working. I told her the most important thing is to go to GOAL.org and check out their website, it will answer all of her questions.
My dad won a membership in the raffle at TVI shoot (I was going to get him a GOAL memberhsip for Fathers Day anyway).
I was at Pete's in Hudson NH on Saturday when a woman from Chelmsford came in to ask about buying a gun. The woman behind the counter gave a long diatribe on MA saying it'll take 3 or 4 months before she could get her license.
I stopped the woman who asked the question on her way out to tell her about Women on Target and explained how there's a class next Sunday at Westford, but she said she was working. I told her the most important thing is to go to GOAL.org and check out their website, it will answer all of her questions.
I've been secretly handing out applications for quite a while now. I scoffed some from Kim at BCC and will need more. Am curious if any of them have borne fruit....
Yep, I'm a member and I also signed up my wife and my 12yr old son!!!!
Not a member- I'm new to firearms & shooting in general so now I have to go google GOAL- ![[grin]](/xen/styles/default/xenforo/smilies.vb/041.gif "Grin [grin]")
*edit* O.k. wait I looked it up- I'm not even in MA- don't know that it would do anyone any good for me to join-
*edit* O.k. wait I looked it up- I'm not even in MA- don't know that it would do anyone any good for me to join-
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Let me/us know how that goes. I will do the same up here at a shop.
Not a member- I'm new to firearms & shooting in general so now I have to go google GOAL-
*edit* O.k. wait I looked it up- I'm not even in MA- don't know that it would do anyone any good for me to join-
the more members the better
the more members the better
The more active and vocal members the better...Just joining is good, but not enough....
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Some very - others took them passively when I handed them MassGunLawReform flyers. My resounding message has been: "this is not about black rifles - they're after more than that"....It seems to be working, though I have no way of knowing how many are being filled out and mailed. I would guess I've given out close to 50....
Unless you're cellphone is also blocked from work
try calling and signing up . . . 508-393-5333. They can take care of it over the phone.155 views, 57 votes. Me thinks some people are avoiding voting
And some are returning multiple times to read the comments, after we voted.
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That's good. It's best if you can convince them to fill it out NOW and you'll mail it for them. I used to do that at a prior gun club. It assured me that it wouldn't be forgotten once they got home.
Personal experience as a "consumer" . . . I used to pick up Boston Computer Society applications at various computer events with every intention of joining . . . much of the paper I picked up at those events was just stacked up and never looked at again until I was doing a "purge" and throwing stuff out. I know that I also had a gap in my GOAL membership and had a lower number originally, but it also got "put aside" and forgotten at some time back in the 1970s.
So with the best of intentions, people tend to forget and thus getting them to deal with it "right then and there" is always best. I've probably given out 1000 or so GOAL apps over the years at gun shows, gun clubs, etc. and I'll bet no more than 10-20 were ever sent in. Meanwhile at an average day working the gun show, I'll usually sign up ~10-15 people where they hand it back to me with money/cc info filled out on the form.
Another idea for instructors: At the end of your classes, you should talk about GOAL and hand each of them an application. Offer to pay the postage to get them back from them right then and there.
Good advice, but I'm not handing them out at the gun club....I may be able to figure out a plan, but I have to fly a bit under the radar...
And some are returning multiple times to read the comments, after we voted.
And others are probably not MA residents and if they voted it would skew the incredibly accurate internet poll.
Not a member- I'm new to firearms & shooting in general so now I have to go google GOAL-
*edit* O.k. wait I looked it up- I'm not even in MA- don't know that it would do anyone any good for me to join-
I joined GOAL after I heard about it on NES. I'm a RI resident, but I figure any bad ideas from Mass eventually trickle to their New England neighbors to the south (what's that saying about something flowing downhill?
), so the more that can be done to rehab Mass gun laws, the better off all New Englanders will be. You're in Connecticut, so that includes you!
And others are probably not MA residents and if they voted it would skew the incredibly accurate internet poll.
You mean this ain't no scientific poll?
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This is why, for those of you who vote yes, or no, who are not also green, you should go green! Center442 sent me a pm saying that he would donate a 3rd GOAL membership for me to raffle off.
Join GOAL. Go green. Both are important IMHO.
Join GOAL. Go green. Both are important IMHO.
You have been a member since I was a 1 year old!
I have been a member since 2007 - I was not aware of GOAL prior to NES but I was also not a firearm owner prior to then either.
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