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Linky: http://blog.goal.org/h2158-info/
H.2158 will bring equality to licensing AND stop the town by town attempts to suppress our Second Amendment.
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Take part in the remedy to stop the town by town attacks on our Second Amendment!
What: Information Gathering Session for H.2158
Who: Representative David Vieira
Where: MA Division of Fisheries and Wildlife Headquarters, 1 Rabbit Hill Road, Westborough MA 01581
When: Saturday, May 7, 2016 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
In a previous hearing before the Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security, Chairman Hank Naughton appointed Committee member Rep. David Vieira to gather information pertinent to H.2158 An Act Relative to Constitutional Rights. As a result, Rep. Vieira has graciously set up an Information Gathering Session on the matter on a weekend, so that citizens may not have to take off of work or travel into Boston.
The information that the Committee is seeking is in regards to additional requirements that your city/town may be adding to the state firearm licensing process. These may include such things as:
Letters to the Chief,
Extra training courses,
Training requirements not mandated by state law,
Extra Fees
and anything else that is not specifically required under state firearms law.
If your local city/town is requiring anything extra of you to apply for a state firearm license, please attend this meeting and provide information to Rep. Vieira. Along with your verbal testimony, it would be very helpful if you could bring documentation of the added requirements. This could be in the form of printouts from municipal websites, additional application forms from your city/town, etc.
Please attend this important meeting and let your voice be heard!
If you plan to attend, please RSVP to: [email protected] (Jim Wallace, Executive Director GOAL)
H.2158 An Act Relative to Constitutional Rights – filed by Rep. James Miceli
SECTION 1. Chapter 140 shall be amended by inserting the following section:-
Section 120A. No county, municipality, township or other community entity within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts may enact, pass or enforce any law, ordinance or regulation concerning the lawful ownership, use, possession, transfer, purchase, receipt or transportation of weapons, antique weapons, ammunition or ammunition components.
The right to keep and bear arms is an individual civil right and shall be presumed to exist in all matters regarding the ownership, use, possession, transfer, purchase, receipt or transportation of weapons, antique weapons, ammunition or ammunition components unless expressly prohibited by the general laws of this Commonwealth.
Linky: http://blog.goal.org/h2158-info/