Posted on 07/14/2008 8:37:36 AM PDT by pabianice
July 14, 2008
Dear GOAL members and friends,
This requires our immediate action. We urge you to contact your State Representative and Senator and ask that they not support the Governor's Appropriations Bill.
On Sunday July, 13, 2008 Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick filed a special appropriations bill for fiscal year 2008. (As of the filing of this report, the bill had not yet received a number.) Within this bill sections 24 - 27 drastically increase certain firearm licenses.
Sections 24 & 25 attack lawfully licensed firearm dealers by increasing their license fees from $100 for three years to $250. Then it adds a $100 inspection fee in years two and three of the license. This tactic would now turn a $100 three year dealer's license into a $450 three year license.
Section 26 would increase a resident License to Carry fee from $100 for six years to $200 for six years.
Section 27 would increase a non-resident License to Carry fee from $100 for one year to $250 for one year.
"In light of the recent Supreme Court ruling, this new proposal from the Governor can only be viewed as an attempt to tax people out of their civil rights," said Jim Wallace Executive Director of GOAL. "With this new proposal, the Governor continues to demonstrate his willingness to attack lawful gun owners while doing nothing to reduce violent crime. The highest court in the nation has ruled that citizens have an individual right to possess a firearm and now our Governor is trying to tax us out of that right!"
GOAL is urgently requesting that our members contact their local representatives and senators immediately and ask them to make sure this ridiculous tax on our rights does not pass into law.
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An Act Making Appropriations for the Fiscal Year 2008 to Provide for Supplementing Certain Existing Appropriations and for Certain Other Activities and Projects
CHSB ";" License to Carry Fee -1
SECTION 24. Section 122 of chapter 140 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out, in line 28, the figure " $100"; and inserting in place thereof the following figure:- $250.
CHSB ";" Annual Dealer License Fee
SECTION 25. Said section 122 of said chapter 140, as so appearing, is hereby further amended by inserting after the word " Fund.";, in line 33, the following sentence:- Each year in which a license holder need not apply for a license renewal, the license holder shall pay to the licensing authority a license inspection fee of $100.
CHSB ";" License to Carry Fee ";" 2
SECTION 26. Section 131 of said chapter 140, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out, in line 240, the figure " $100"; and inserting in place thereof the following figure:- $200.
CHSB ";" Non Residential Firearms License Fee
SECTION 27. Section 131F of said chapter 140, as so appearing, is hereby amended by striking out, in line 53, the figure " $100"; and inserting in place thereof the following figure:- $250.
Angela/GOAL Gun Owners' Action League
All of these fee increases are to support RomneyCARE.
But it will not be enough. All America must pay.
If a government can tax you to limit your ability to exercise your 2nd amendment right, it can find a way to use taxes to limit every other right. The British did this in 1765 with the Stamp Act. One of the items requiring the use of stamped paper were newspapers. The most important venue in the colonies for political expression. The haloed one’s Bay State Minnie Me must be stopped.
The radical socialist left again steps up the HARASSMENT OF LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS in the ongoing attempt to disarm the American public. This most likely in light of the recent upholding of the OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT by the SCOTUS in spite of the socialist-activist, anti-second amendment votes....
I also live in a liberal dung-heap, albiet not quite as advanced as Massachusetts. California. We have our anti-rights socialists here too doing the same thing.
They Just jacked up the price of smokes another buck yet again here last week.
TOGETHER WE CAN!!!
Wheres my propert tax relief Asshat?
Guess folks ain’t fleeing Upstate fast enough.
Meant MA. SSDS.
Sad to say it but, if I COULD get a license to carry, I'd gladly pay $200/6yr for it.
Alas, Cambridge, MA doesn't want me to carry a gun for defensive purposes.
Course not.
Somebody needs to do a Mad Magazine “Alfed E. Newman” parody picture of B. Hussein, with the usual caption, “What? Me worry?”
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