Massachusetts Towns Move to Limit, Ban Firearms Ownership

Gun Owners Action League ^ | 4/1/16 | Editors

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**Longmeadow Alert** NO on Articles 27, 28, 29!

A few updates on the alert regarding the three articles to be voted on at town meeting on May 10th. • GOAL Members in Longmeadow have organized and set up a website - please follow it and share! http://www.longforliberty.org/ • The Articles are now numbered 27, 28, 29. • GOAL has confirmed that Select Board Member Alex Grant is the proponent of the three articles. Alex is a federal prosecutor and submitted the articles via citizens petition. • A Life Member of GOAL and Longmeadow resident, Walt Lamon has volunteered to lead the effort to stop the unconstitutional articles. If you are a Longmeadow resident who would like to be involved, please contact Walt via email. Here is the GOAL Alert:

GOAL has learned that Longmeadow Massachusetts will be voting at town meeting on May 10th and could vote in some drastic anti-Second Amendment measures. Please see the text of Article’s 26, 27, 28 from the 2016 town meeting warrant (see below). This was sent to us by a member. These articles are an outright assault on your Second Amendment rights. Article 26 would ban lawful carry of firearms on all town property including sidewalks. Article 27 would require gun registration upon renewal of license. Article 28 would ban many commonly owned firearms and magazines Please know that the warrant is yet to be finalized. Town Meeting begins May 10, click here for more information. If you live in Longmeadow please plan on attending town meeting and voting NO on all three articles! Click here for more information.

***Ipswich Alert*** NEW!

GOAL has learned that there is a hunting/discharge ban on the town warrant for the May 10th Annual Town Meeting. The proponent of the article wants to ban the safe and lawful discharge of firearms on private property. See Article 27 on page 38. (note it's mistakenly marked as Article 25)

Town Meeting is May 10, if you are an Ipswich resident please attend and vote NO.

http://www.ipswichma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/8215

***Westport Alert*** NEW!

GOAL has learned that there is a citizens petition on the town meeting warrant, see Article 28, (page 10).

This is yet another citizens petition filed with the intent of restricting freedom. If you live in Westport, please plan on attending town meeting May 3rd and voting this nonsense down.

http://westporttownmeeting.com/5-3-16%20ATM%205th%20Draft%2…

**Lexington Alert** The town of Lexington will vote on Article 34 at town meeting beginning on April 6, 2016. The article, (as of today) is to be submitted to town meeting as a non-binding resolution, it is no longer a ban. While this is good news we need to point out that the basic premise of Article 34 is an insult to all law abiding gun owners. His logic is also flawed in that he insinuates that a gun is inherently "dangerous". A firearm is an inanimate object incapable of doing anything on its own. The only thing that has the potential for being dangerous is the person and there is nothing in any of the versions of Article 34 which addresses this. It's just more bigotry, harassment and blame of lawful gun owners. For this reason GOAL will ask that our members and the residents of Lexington continue to oppose Article 34. To stop this article from becoming law, it must be voted down by Lexington's town meeting members at the Annual Town Meeting. The annual town meeting is scheduled for March 21, 2016 at 7:30 PM in the Carey Memorial Building, 1605 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington, MA 02420. Take Action!

Lexington residents need to contact their town meeting members and urge them to vote NO on Article 34. Click here to see a precinct map for Lexington. Click here for a listing of town meeting members. Plan on attending town meeting April 6, 2016 and speaking out against this attack on our Second Amendment. Click here for more information

Important Info From LexForLiberty.org

Important Information on April 6 Town Meeting

To all those who are planning to use their 1st Amendment Rights to protect their Second, please be aware of the following: At the Town Meeting on April 6. 1) The Chief of Police has asked for no concealed or open carry, regardless of license, and will not admit anyone who is. They will use metal detectors and bag checks. Please avoid incident and respect the Chiefs’ authority, even if you disagree with it. 2) People should dress as you would for a traditional business meeting. Range attire and/or clothing with political/firearm themed messages will not help articulate the arguments against the Resolution. 3) If you speak, don’t use accusatory or intimidating language. Stick to the facts. You will have a better chance of speaking if you “pre-register” with Moderator Brown before the meeting, who will call on you (see below). 4) Clapping and cheering and otherwise being overly vocal will work against the effort, whereas calm, quiet presence, acknowledged by those who speak, will be much more effective than loud obnoxiousness. Our main focus is defeating Article 34 at the Town Meeting on April 6. However, mark your calendars and stay tuned for details of a “Protest Town Meeting Passage of Article 34” rally planned for Apr. 9 should that be necessary. Read more

**West Boylston Alert **

The discussion will continue at Zoning Board Hearing April 21.

The citizens group who are working to suppress freedom in W. Boylston via forcing Wayne's Weaponry to cease lawful discharge of firearms on his property will have to wait until the next hearing, scheduled for April 21st.

At last nights hearing it was decided that the lawful discharge will be strictly limited to certain times/days.

Hopefully this will be reversed at the next hearing to that people can get back to enjoying exercising their Second Amendment freedom.

If you are a W. Boylston resident, please plan on attending the next hearing in support of Wayne at the West Boylston Town Offices, 140 Worcester Street, West Boylston, MA.

Also, there is a fundraiser for Wayne at the Kasbar in Worcester, 234 Southwest Cutoff Rd, April 10th from 4:00 - 8:00 PM $10.00 at the door. Stop by, have dinner, get a raffle ticket and help Wayne offset his legal fees.

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In the GOAL Weekly Newsletter.

[sport]

It figures. If I laved there, I would get the hell out. The sun would not set on my ass being in that town.

[showme_the_Glory]

ATTENTION ALL CRIMINALS......Gun free zone, easy pickins.

[Boston Blackie]

It appears King George III will finally be victorious in restricting firearms and ammo in Massachusetts Bay Colony.

[Tupelo]

Damn, it looks like these three towns may have copied the ordinances pretty much straight from the city of Tombstone in 1881.
I hope they remember the Tombstone ordinances led to pretty heated discussion on October of that year.

[henkster]

General Gates would have been happy to rule over the current residents of Lexington. He would not have had to send out the troops; the current idiots would have brought their guns to him.

[Vic S]

I bet they feel so safe now they can leave their doors unlocked. #liberallogic

[stockpirate]

These fools are a far cry from Capt. Johnny Parker and his call that morning on Lexington Green, “If it’s war they want let it begin here, let it begin now.”

[Resolute Conservative]

Down here cities/counties cannot enact law/ordinaces that are more restrictive that state/fed laws.

[Boston Blackie]

General Gates would have been happy to rule over the current residents of Lexington. He would not have had to send out the troops; the current idiots would have brought their guns to him.

The current idiots of Lexington would have hanged Sam Adams and John Hancock on the morning of April 19, 1775.

[SaveFerris]

[Massachusetts Towns Move to Limit, Ban Firearms Ownership]

Criminals in Massachusetts rejoice!!!

[GregoTX]

Nothing like overturning the constitution with a city ordinance.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Just part of the deal living in the Democratic Socialist States of the NE. Love em or leave em.

[SkyDancer]

You better believe that if anything bad happens because of the ruling they will blame conservatives and Republicans.

[MikeSteelBe]

Lexington, Massachusetts banning guns? Is this an April fools joke?

[Boston Blackie]

It involves Lexington, April, fools but sadly its no joke.

[Noumenon]

This won’t stop until those responsible for this nonsense are dangling from ropes set on every lamp post on the towns Main Streets.

[Kenton]

Longmeadow looks like a nice, clean upscale community full of great big houses, inhabited by the rich white Massachusetts liberals who can afford to live there. One of those places like Bernie Sanders probably lives, where if somebody sees a minority walking down the street, they know it's probably just a house servant, but they call the police just in case.

Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, listen up! This seems like a great opportunity to clean up your communities. Remember the recent news story where some Democrat controlled big cities want to pay felons to NOT commit crimes? To expand on that principle, I wonder if big cities could just pay their welfare-consuming ghetto rats to move up to liberal bastions like Longmeadow?

Give them a check, a box lunch and a pack of cigarettes, and rent buses for the trip. Send them all up there to arrive at about the same time.

Then pop the popcorn and turn on the teevee. It would be like the refugee crisis in Europe, and the liberals would be buying guns just like the rest of us.

Or trying to, hehehehehe...

[MaxistheBest]

“liberals would be buying guns just like the rest of us”

or,in the true liberal fashion, hire armed gaurds

[MaxistheBest]

When you see what’s going on in North Carolina regarding unisex bathrooms and locker rooms, it’s the same critters pushing it. NC is one the favorite destinations for Mass liberals. Many come to Florida first, then move to NC; we call them “halfbacks”.