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Massachusetts: House Ways and Means Committee to Consider Radical Anti-Gun Bill Any Day

Monday, June 23, 2014

The Massachusetts House Ways and Means Committee will be considering and voting on a radical anti-gun bill, House Bill 4121, any day now.  Your immediate action and help is needed to defeat this misguided legislation in committee.

This egregious bill would empower police chiefs with discretion in licensing owners for shotguns and rifles, ban the private sale of firearms except through a licensed gun dealer, and create new firearm possession qualifications that could ban firearm ownership for thousands of hunters and gun enthusiasts across the Commonwealth.

These requirements are only a few of the many onerous and deeply flawed provisions that penalize responsible gun owners and sportsmen in Massachusetts and could turn law-abiding citizens into criminals.  Unfortunately, it seems as though the misguided Massachusetts General Court won’t stop until they have completely obliterated your rights.  As we’ve seen in other states, such as New York, these controversial registration schemes begin the slide down a slippery slope toward eventual confiscation.  Historical evidence clearly proves that gun registration enables gun confiscation, and criminals never register their firearms.

HB 4121 is dangerous legislation that seeks to further strip away your Second Amendment rights in Massachusetts.  As anyone who has gone through the process to legally obtain a firearm in Massachusetts knows, there is no dearth of existing state laws that regulate the sale, purchase and transfer of firearms.  State legislators on Beacon Hill should be repealing gun control laws, NOT enacting more to further restrict your Second Amendment rights.

It is critical that you contact members of the House Ways and Means Committee and urge them to vote against this dangerous anti-gun bill.  Using the contact information provided below, please call AND e-mail members of the committee and URGE them to vote NO on House Bill 4121.  Please also call the committee switchboard at (617) 722-2990 to register your opposition to HB 4121.

House Ways and Means Committee
 
Representative Brian S. Dempsey (D),  Chairman - Haverhill
617-722-2990
[email protected]

Representative Stephen Kulik (D), Vice Chairman - Worthington
617-722-2380
[email protected]
 
Representative Angelo M. Scaccia (D) - Readville
617-722-2060
[email protected]
 
Representative Thomas M. Petrolati (D) - Ludlow
617-722-2255
[email protected]
 
Representative Christine E. Canavan (D) - Brockton
617-722-2575
[email protected]
 
Representative Thomas M. Stanley (D) - Waltham
617-722-2230
[email protected]
 
Representative Cleon H. Turner (D) - Dennis
617-722-2090
[email protected]
 
Representative Paul McMurtry (D) - Dedham
617-722-2015
[email protected]
 
Representative Sean Garballey (D) - Arlington
617-722-2090
[email protected]
 
Representative Carolyn C. Dykema (D) - Hollison
617-722-2210
[email protected]
 
Representative Nick Collins (D) - Boston
617-722-2080
[email protected]
 
Representative Viriato Manuel deMacedo (R) - Plymouth 
617-722-2100
[email protected]
 
Representative Matthew A. Beaton (R) - Shrewsbury 
617-722-2488
[email protected]
 
Representative David T. Vieira (R) - East Falmouth
617-722-2230
[email protected]
 
Representative Gloria L. Fox (D) - Roxbury
617-722-2810
[email protected]
 
Representative Robert M. Koczera (D) - New Bedford
617-722-2582
[email protected]
 
Representative Robert F. Fennell (D) - Lynn
617-722-2575
[email protected]
 
Representative Walter F. Timilty (D) - Milton
617-722-2230
[email protected]
 
Representative William Smitty Pignatelli (D) - Lenox
617-722-2017
[email protected]
 
Representative Linda Campbell (D) - Methuen
617-722-2305
[email protected]
 
Representative Lori A. Ehrlich (D) - Marblehead
617-722-2014
[email protected]
 
Representative Michael D. Brady (D) - Brockton
617-722-2230
[email protected]
 
Representative Timothy R. Madden (D) - Nantucket
617-722-2810
[email protected]
 
Representative Rhonda Nyman (D) - Hanover
617-722-2210
[email protected]
 
Representative Angelo L. D’Emilia (R) - Bridgewater
617-722-2488
Angelo.D'[email protected]

 
Representative Geoff Diehl (R) - Whitman
617-722-2810
[email protected]
 
Representative Donald H. Wong (R) - Saugus
617-722-2488
[email protected]

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