Massachusetts lawmakers will hold a “listening tour” to hear the concerns of Bay State citizens, and the Gun Owners Action League (GOAL) is encouraging Second Amendment activists to attend a session scheduled Thursday evening at Cape Cod Community College in West Barnstable.
The session will be held 6-9 p.m.
GOAL Executive Director Jim Wallace told TGM there will probably be one of these meetings every month. He learned there is some interest in doing a “top-down” review of the state gun laws, and his response was blunt.
“I agree we should do it,” Wallace said, “and identify everything that doesn’t work and get rid of it.”
This week’s inaugural session is headlined, “Exploring the Crossroads of Firearms and Suicide.”
The sessions involve legislative delegations from Cape Cod and Plymouth with Rep. Michael Day running the event, Wallace noted in an alert to GOAL members and Massachusetts gun owners.
He is challenging gun owners to ask about such things as:
- Speeding up the licensing application process.
- Questioning the validity of LTC and FID cards, which officials allegedly claim are not state licenses.
- Straightening out state gun laws so they are understandable.
- The punitive nature of state gun laws and how they can be “reinterpreted on a whim.”
- Why the state collects millions of dollars from gun owners annually but allegedly doesn’t spend any of that revenue on firearms safety classes.
- Why does the State continue to pass laws that only affect the lawful 2A community? We are among the most vetted citizens in the Commonwealth yet punitive laws are continually passed and is clear you want more. Why?
- Have any school safety measures supported by GOAL in 2014 been implemented, and if not, why not?
These and other questions need to be asked, according to Wallace, who is hoping gun owners will continue attending these sessions, keeping gun rights issues in the spotlight.
