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Massachusetts: Emergency Powers Legislation May be Voted on Today in Senate Committee!

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Please Contact Members of the Committee Today!

S.1401,  "An Act Prohibiting the Confiscation of Lawfully Owned Firearms During a State of Emergency", sponsored by State Senator Richard T. Moore (Worcester and Norfolk), may be voted on as early as today in the Senate Ways and Means Committee.  S.1401 would protect our Second Amendment rights by prohibiting any government agency from confiscating or regulating the lawful sale, possession, transfer, transport and carry of firearms during a state of emergency, such as occurred in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.

Please contact the members of the Senate Ways and Means Committee TODAY and urge them to support S.1401.  

Members of the Senate Ways and Means Committee:

State Senator Steven C. Panagiotakos (D-1st Middlesex)
(617) 722-1630
[email protected]

State Senator Stephen M. Brewer (D-Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire & Franklin)
(617) 722-1540
[email protected]

State Senator Harriette L. Chandler (D-1st Worcester)
(617) 722-1544
[email protected]

State Senator Robert A. Antonioni (D-Worcester & Middlesex)
(617) 722-1230
[email protected]

State Senator Edward M. Augustus, Jr. (D-2nd Worcester)
(617) 722-1485
[email protected]

State Senator Steven A. Baddour (D-1st Essex)
(617) 722-1604
[email protected]

State Senator Susan C. Fargo (D-3rd Middlesex)
(617) 722-1572
[email protected]

State Senator Michael W. Morrissey (D-Norfolk & Plymouth)
(617) 722-1494
[email protected]

State Senator Marc R. Pacheco (D-1st Plymouth & Bristol)
(617) 722-1551
[email protected]

State Senator Pamela P. Resor (D-Middlesex & Worcester)
(617) 722-1120
[email protected]

State Senator Brian A. Joyce (D- Norfolk, Bristol & Plymouth)
(617) 722-1643
[email protected]

State Senator Susan C. Tucker (D-2nd Essex & Middlesex)
(617) 722-1612
[email protected]

State Senator Dianne Wilkerson (D-2nd Suffolk)
(617) 722-1673
[email protected]

State Senator Cynthia Stone Creem (D-1st Middlesex & Norfolk)
(617) 722-1639
[email protected]

State Senator Karen Spilka (D-2nd Middlesex & Norfolk)
(617) 722-1640
[email protected]

State Senator Michael R. Knapik (R-2nd Hampden & Hampshire)
(617) 722-1415
[email protected]

State Senator Bruce E. Tarr (R- 1st Essex & Middlesex)
(617) 722-1600
[email protected]

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