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Annual Raffle!
Each year, we ask all our members to participate in our Annual Raffle.
We need to raise the funds to continue to promote our reform bill and continue to fight for the rights of Massachusetts gun owners.
This Annual Raffle is our primary fund raising event for the year and is vitally necessary to our continued success.
Tickets are $5.00 each, and you may purchase tickets online, at GOAL headquarters, or by calling the GOAL office at (508) 393-5333.
**Please note that due to postal regulations, we cannot send any part of a raffle ticket through the mail.**
Click here to view the list of winners from our quot;Lucky 20 quot; Raffle
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Local News
What a difference a few miles makes. NH Legislators vote to allow CCW at the State House. Which leads to a question, why are the citizens of MA less trustworthy than our Northern neighbors?
Comm2A announces Hightower v. Boston Right to Carry case in MA. The plaintiff's counsel is now Alan Gura and Chester Darling who are being supported by the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and Commonwealth Second Amendment, Inc (Comm2A).
New Gun Shop in Holliston causes a stir. Heavner stocks a full range of pistols as well as long rifles.
Smith amp; Wesson moving Thompson/Center Arms from NH to MA. This move should add approx 225 jobs
FBI: Mass is most violent state in the Northeast. More proof of the complete failure of the gun laws of 1998
Pistol Packing Store Owner thwarts machete-wielding robber “Then I drew down on him,” Mr. Taylor said, patting his 9 mm Smith amp; Wesson in the holster at his side. “He was definitely serious; until I got more serious. I always carry.”
NES Charity Ride for quot;Cross-X quot; a great success. Yesterday's temps started off in the upper 30s as riders headed to GOAL for registration. A little chilly, but with the proper gear everyone arrived in great spirits and nobody was complaining about the weather.
GOAL files court brief in defense of McDonald decision. These court actions cost GOAL thousands of dollars, if you would like to make a donation that will help us continue this fight to defend our civil rights you can do so online here,
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National News
NRA to Congress: Don't mess with Gun Laws. The NRA has begun to push back at congressional proposals to further tighten gun laws
Cheney opens door to tighter gun restrictions. The bill would limit the number of quot;clips quot; sold in the U.S. to 10 rounds maximum.
Some DC Lawmakers are now carrying concealed. While some lawmakers are responding to the mass shooting in Arizona by introducing legislation to increase gun control or asking for additional security, others say they're going to start exercising their Second Amendment rights and carry weapons.
ATF request to require multiple sales reports for long guns delayed. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is moving to require federally licensed firearms retailers to report multiple sales of modern sporting rifles beginning January 5, 2011
NJ Governor Christie commutes gun owners prison sentence -- NRA hails decision, calls for real reform.The National Rifle Association praised New Jersey Governor Chris Christie for commuting the prison sentence of Brian Aitken—a gun owner who was arrested, convicted and imprisoned for illegal possession of firearms, even though he had made every effort to comply with New Jersey’s restrictive and confusing laws.
16 Year Old quot;Model Student quot; may face expulsion for leaving a properly secured hunting rifle in trunk of car at school.
quot;Assault Weapons quot; and the Truth The Obama adminsitration has hired an anti-gun zealot as the U.S.'s top gun cop
New Jersey case sparks national outrage. It is the kind of legal nightmare one only imagines from a Hollywood script writer
NSSF Celebrates 50 Years of service to the firearms industry. Congratulations from GOAL!
NRA Strongly opposes the nomination of Andrew Traver to head BATFE. More anti-civil rights pandering from President Obama!
The Second Amendment's Great Election Night. The Second Amendment had a great night on Tuesday. Across the nation, the right to arms is stronger than ever, and the stage has been set for constructive reforms in 2011.
NSSF- The MAIG Misuses Firearms Trace Data. In a recent report by the Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) coalition, an anti-gun organization led by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the group misuses firearms tracing data in order to push its own gun-control agenda.
Teen sets four NRA records for shooting. Amy Rooney, 14, recently set four national shooting records verified by the National Rifle Association at The Academy Firing Range.
SAF Sues Eric Holder, FBI over misdemeanor Gun Rights denial. The lawsuit was filed in United States District Court for the District of Columbia. SAF and co-plaintiff Jefferson Wayne Schrader of Cleveland, GA are represented by attorney Alan Gura, who successfully argued both the Heller and McDonald cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Members of Congress to Clinton: Revisit decision on M1 Rifles and Carbines U.S. senators and representatives from both sides of the aisle are urging Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to revisit the State Department's March 2010 decision disallowing the importation of M1 rifles and M1 carbines from South Korea.
MAIG Mimimcs Brady Campaign's misuse of tracing data This week, Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) released a report, similar to earlier efforts by the Brady Campaign, claiming that guns originally sold in states that don't have the gun control laws that MAIG likes are more likely to end up quot;recovered in out-of-state crimes. quot;
Police Charge 5 Legal Open Carry Citizens in WI - Victims need your support! This, unfortunately, did not prevent the Madison police department from overreacting by sending eight officers to Culvers to harass the law abiding citizens. Realizing their mistake, Madison dismissed the two original charges filed, and instead charged all five citizens with bogus charges of disorderly conduct designed to intimidate the citizens.
quot;Nice try but No Cigar quot; for Brady Campaign's Paul Helmke There are more Americans owning more guns than ever before and, as we both agree, violent crime is way, way, down.
Bloomberg further disgraces himself with latest anti-gun pitch. Bloomberg revisited his perennial cause célèbre —gun control—because his anti-gun group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), has issued an Issue Brief urging Congress to  quot;close the gun show loophole quot;—gun control supporters' Orwellian quot;doublespeak quot; for quot;prohibit private sales of firearms at gun shows and everywhere else. quot;
Senate Judiciary Committee to hold hearing on S.941 (BATFE reform) Please be sure to contact your U.S. Senators and Representative, and ask them to cosponsor and support S. 941 and H.R. 2296!
Obama's backdoor gun ban. The Obama administration blocks import of WW2 era M1 Garands and Carbines.
Follow this case! NRA challenges the constitutionality of handgun ban for law-abiding 18-20 year olds. The suit asserts: quot;At eighteen years of age, law-abiding citizens in this country are considered adults for almost all purposes and certainly for the purposes of the exercise of fundamental constitutional rights.
Clearing up the rumors: The truth about quot;The Gun Tax Bill quot; Over the past few months, GOAL has received hundreds of e-mails warning us about quot;SB-2099, quot; a bill that would supposedly require you to report all your guns on your income tax return every April 15. 
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GOAL Annual Meeting and Awards Breakfast February 26, 2011
Tentative Times: (please check back soon for final schedule)
Doors Open - Breakfast 8:30 am
Awards - 10:00 am
Meeting - 11:00 am
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Left Looking For Answers Tucson Tragedy
State of MA argues18 year olds can purchase handguns in MA
Does Heller Apply?
Gun Trace Data... Or Deception?
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Scotus Hears McDonald v. Chicago
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Civil Rights Equals Detainment?! So Says the Federal Court
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GOAL's Argument for the Incorporation of the Second Amendment
Good Guys Made Bad By Their Own Government
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