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Related: About this forumGun-rights group opposes bill allowing removal of firearms from 'extreme risk' people
The Gun Owners Action League of Massachusetts is pledging to fight the proposed extreme risk gun bill as it heads to the Senate after overwhelmingly passing the House this week, but its battle may be a long shot with policymakers on both sides of the aisle supporting the legislation.
Were going to continue to work against it, said Jim Wallace, executive director of GOAL. Originally, it was about preventing suicide and stopping mass murder, and then on Monday they released a completely new version of the bill. It was a gun bill. It is a moving target you cant pin down. It is purely a gun confiscation bill now.
The bill, approved by the Democrat-controlled House on a 139-14 vote, would allow for the temporary removal of guns from people who are considered a danger to themselves or others by allowing relatives and people close to a gun owner to petition to remove the firearms.
It has nothing to do with stopping suicide or mass murder, Wallace said. It will only take their legal gun away and set them loose on our kids and society.
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Rhiannon12866
(252,158 posts)Obviously, no matter how horrific it gets, nothing will make a difference to these extremists. I would have thought Sandy Hook would have resonated, if anything did - these monsters have a hell of a nerve calling themselves "pro life!"
TimeSnowDemos
(476 posts)Guns already pose and extreme risk. Gun owners do NOT care.
At any point gun owners could hand in their guns or even just sell them on. They don't. They buy more and more.
Gun groupa represent gun owners larglely. Not the other way around. The sooner Americans realize that, the better
