Ipswich Fish & Game Club Urges Opposition to HB 4420

The Ipswich Fish and Game Club has recently notified the public and it’s membership of it’s opposition to the upcoming HB4420.
The club recently directed interested parties to review the recent posting on the Gun Owners Action League (GOAL) website at https://www.goal.org/Lawful-Citizens-Imprisonment-Act – which stated the following:
By now every gun owner in the Commonwealth should be aware of the historic attack against the entire 2A (2nd Ammendment) community being pushed by House Speaker Ron Mariano and Chairman Michael Day.
THIS IS NOT A FALSE ALARM – THIS IS HISTORIC BIGOTRY AND OPPRESSION
There is no telling when the Speaker may try to ram this through. Although we have been told the bill will have a hearing, we have been told a lot of things, most of which have turned out to be intentionally false.
Many of you have done a great job helping to spread the earnest alarm over this. Please help us keep the information and advocacy flowing.
Here are some things you can do this weekend to help build the energy behind this fight:
1. Public officials will often be at events on the weekends. Find out where they will be, gather friends and go pay them a visit.
2. Print out GOAL’s summary on the facts and make sure all your local officials review it. https://goal.org/resources/Documents/HD4420Brief.pdf
3. Make sure they truly understand the gravity and consequences of this rogue bill.
4. As a group, visit your local law enforcement officials and ask them to take a public stance against this blatant civil rights attack.
Talking points – there is no need to get into the nitty gritty of the bill since it is impossible to fix!
· The summary provided to the legislature does not represent what the bill would actually do to lawful citizens. The legislature is being intentionally misled by Chairman Day and Speaker Mariano!
· If this becomes law, about 10% of the Commonwealth’s population would become criminals and enemies of the state overnight.
· The bill is so egregious that it is impossible to amend, so don’t try.
· If the bill does come to the House floor, you should leave the chamber in protest to send a clear message to the Speaker that you will not take any part in doing this to your constituents.
· Nothing in the bill addresses violent crime, mental health, or suicide.
· Everyone who attended the “listening tour”, including Chairman Day, stated repeatedly that licensed gun owners are not the problem. This bill totally reflects the opposite.
· This will ring the dinner bell for violent criminals to flock to Massachusetts; because we will all be defenseless, including domestic violence victims, the elderly, people of marginalized communities, and even off duty law enforcement. Everyone’s safety in the Commonwealth will be compromised!
GOAL’s breakdown of the bill: https://goal.org/Lawful-Citizens-Imprisonment-Act
As GOAL deciphers and gathers more information on this bill, we will update this page.
The bill number will likely change as it was just filed as a docket.