Subject: (please forward) MCA launches the lawn sign campaigns for Stop H4139 and Process Matters - how to order; how to become a distribution site

[Coyote33]

Please forward the following email to your clubs leaders, club members, and FFLs in your community.
The general awareness of this new lawn sign campaign went out with GOAL's Friday News Yesterday.
We need to encourage all sportsmen/women with the call to action to contact legislators and refresh where we left off with HD4420 lawn signs. Now there are new signs Stop H4139 and Process Matters with link backs to GOALs detailed webpages.

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The Mass Conservation Alliance (MCA) in support of the GOAL campaigns for Process Matters.org and Stop H.4139 has launched a complementary lawn sign campaign whereby leagues, clubs, and individuals can order lawn signs and pickup orders at regional locations such as MCA local contacts, participating sporting clubs and FFLs.

Details for everyone across the state to follow and order signs is at this MCA website:
Signs - Process Matters & H.4139
Anyone having issues with internet, etc, can also reach out to Wayne Adams and Paul Johnson, see contact info below.

Starting today, lawn signs can be purchased online.
How to order: Upland Media Group – The Official Source of Upland Almanac merch and products
There is limited inventory in the hands of Wayne Adams and Paul Johnson to fulfill orders at the WCL Banquet and in our respective counties starting tomorrow.

Any club or FFL that wants to become a distribution site should reach out to Paul or Wayne (see contact info below). We are also contacting all the prior HD4420 sites to see if they'll become a distribution site.
What is a distribution site - a club, FFL, person willing to take local delivery of a sign ordered online and make it available for pickup for the person who ordered the sign(s).

Any distribution site can also be a retail site, whereby the distribution site orders their own signs online and then sells them at their establishment. Cost of signs is $6 (plus tax and cc processing fee). Any club, FFL is welcome to ask for more than $6 per sign to cover any additional costs and preferably make the excess amount of funds a donation back to GOAL or MCA or your favorite local club.

Anyone wanting to put a donation into either GOAL or MCA online can do so, following these links
or reach out privately to either Paul or Wayne. MCA funds are limited and we are passing the hat to stakeholders for the outcome of H4139.
MCA: Donate today to the MCA Sportsmen's Action Fund
GOAL: www.goal.org/Donate

Wayne Adams
[email protected]
508-631-8883

Paul E Johnson
[email protected]
508-241-2333

 

[Bodhisattva]

No drop off point in actual western mass? Lame!!

 

[tinhorn]

No drop off point in actual western mass? Lame!!

Well, step right up, son! If you're not part of the solution....

 

[Coyote33]

No drop off point in actual western mass? Lame!!

What is a distribution site - a club, FFL, person willing to take local delivery of a sign ordered online and make it available for pickup for the person who ordered the sign(s).

 

[Bodhisattva]

Sounds all fine and dandy, but I work 12hr night shifts four days a week and typically get mandated two more nights a week. On top of that, I’m now going to be taking care of an elderly family member who had a bad fall, and can’t ambulate without assistance.

While it would be nice to be a point of contact to help distribute the signs, my dance card is already full.

 

[Coyote33]

Well, they JUST started this campaign yesterday or the day before. Maybe, instead of criticizing, you could give them some help. If not yourself, maybe your club or some friends. They are seeking help, and you take a dump on them right off the bat and then run away? Come on.

 

[Bodhisattva]

Not “taking a dump” on anyone. More trying to point out how the actual western mass (west of Worcester) gets forgotten about. I already have plans to go and talk to both shops in town and see if they would consider being distribution points. I’m confident neither of them know this campaign, would be willing to be a pet of it.

 

[wma01541]

No drop off point in actual western mass? Lame!!

Avid just signed up...send me more Western MA sites. As stated in the communication, the distribution/pickup sites for pre-paid online orders will be fast moving over the next few days. More important, the lawn signs is to remind everyone to reach out to the conference committee to voice your opposition to the process to date and just about everything in H4139. I've heard plenty of sportsmen are defeated. Doing nothing is an option; however would rather support GOAL to remind everyone there are sportsmen/firearm owners across the state and assuming they no longer care/no longer make a difference just reinforces the trajectory of infringed 2A new legislation. There is no single white knight riding to the rescue. Every elected senator and house rep that is in favor of protecting our 2A rights has stated the grass roots message by everyone is making a difference and don't stop. Keep the HD4420 sign out; someone took it or stole it, put up a H4139 sign. Put up a Process Matters sign. For this campaign, there are no sugar daddy big bucks donors to buy everyone a sign. With everyone having unlimited phone service and access to email, (if you are reading this, you are connected to the internet), it costs 2-3 minutes of your time to make outreach to the legislators by phone or email.

 

[wma01541]

Avid just signed up...send me more Western MA sites. As stated in the communication, the distribution/pickup sites for pre-paid online orders will be fast moving over the next few days. More important, the lawn signs is to remind everyone to reach out to the conference committee to voice your opposition to the process to date and just about everything in H4139. I've heard plenty of sportsmen are defeated. Doing nothing is an option; however would rather support GOAL to remind everyone there are sportsmen/firearm owners across the state and assuming they no longer care/no longer make a difference just reinforces the trajectory of infringed 2A new legislation. There is no single white knight riding to the rescue. Every elected senator and house rep that is in favor of protecting our 2A rights has stated the grass roots message by everyone is making a difference and don't stop. Keep the HD4420 sign out; someone took it or stole it, put up a H4139 sign. Put up a Process Matters sign. For this campaign, there are no sugar daddy big bucks donors to buy everyone a sign. With everyone having unlimited phone service and access to email, (if you are reading this, you are connected to the internet), it costs 2-3 minutes of your time to make outreach to the legislators by phone or email.

Dave's and Avid, FFLs both in Pittsfield are signed on. 200 signs were dropped with the Berkshire County League clubs a few weeks ago. And signs were available for anyone at the Berkshire County League Annual Banquet earlier this month. Signs were available at the GOAL Annual Meeting at the start of this month, as well as both the Bristol County and Plymouth County banquets, as well as the recent Worcester County League April meeting. There are 27 sign drop-off locations across the state. Any club wanting to do a bulk sign order, can be delivered to where you specify. The campaign is alive and active, where nothing is moving in the Joint Committee, while the grassroots effort to reach out to the 6 conference committee legislators is ongoing. Signs and awareness will take place on May 4th and 5th at Bass Pro in Foxboro and Cabela's in Hudson/Berlin. Overall, a lot confusion amongst the firearm owners....some think the deal is baked, some know the campaign to alive, and some think they did their HD4420 sign effort last fall and don't want to do anything else. As stated at the GOAL Annual Meeting, if anyone thinks any vile legislation will be solved quickly through the courts is misinformed. The best strategy in place today, reach out to the 6 Joint Conference members and articulate your objections and how any new restrictive legislation would affect you personally and remind them, criminals don't follow the law. Optimistically, this stalls in session and won't be refiled until 2025. MCA/GOAL are thankful for cash donations from NSSF, Worcester County League, Berkshire County League, MCA, and Plymouth County League to enable many signs to be seeded amongst these events and now making their way onto sportsmen/women lawns. Additionally, the online sign ordering and drop-off has been flawless; many FFLs are happy they don't need to pre-buy signs and hope they will sell, many welcome this new ordering/drop-off method. The door is still wide open for any FFL, business, club, etc that wants to be added as a drop-off site for online orders. MCA is also thankful for the handful of drivers willing to drive the last mile for special orders and the printers for making multiple drop-offs each week.