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GUN OWNERS’ ACTION LEAGUE (GOAL) HOLDS 2ND AMENDMENT RALLY AT STATE HOUSE AGAINST SPEAKER’S GUN CONTROL BILL

June 18, 2014

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The Gun Owners Action League of Massachusetts (GOAL) today held a pro 2nd Amendment rally and lobby day at the Massachusetts State House. The State House Park Rangers estimated that be-tween 300-400 attendees were at the rally. The rally and lobby day was held to oppose Speaker De-Leo’s gun control bill, as originally drafted, H. 4121.

DeLeo Launches New Bill, which takes fast track through State House - GOAL Counters.

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Last month, shortly after GOAL went to press with the last is-sue of GOAL News Print Edition House Speaker Robert DeLeo an-nounced that he had filed his “gun violence” bill. The bill which ap-peared to be written by a State House staffer, based largely on the “gun violence” committee report has moved quickly through the State House.

The first stop for the legislation was with the Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Secu-rity.

In short order it was announced that the Public Safety Committee would be hosting a public hearing at the State House.

On Tuesday June 3rd law abiding

gun owners packed the Gardner Auditorium, staying until after 9:00 PM testifying against the bill.

Following the public hearing GOAL launched multiple alerts encour-aging the membership to contact the committee members, Speaker

DeLeo’s office and their legislators, urging them to vote “ought not to pass” on the legislation.

The phone lines and email inboxes at the State House were literally overwhelmed by the volume of communications pouring in.

After three days of continuous communications from our mem-bership, House leadership an-nounced late on Friday afternoon June 6th that the committee members would need to vote on the bill.

GOAL released information again, and once again our members stepped up, increasing the flood or communications extolling the committee members to vote the legislation down.

In a very close vote the legislation was released by one vote where in an unusual move it was rapdily moved to the Joint Rules Commit-tee.

From there H.4121 was released to House Ways & Means where it re-mains as of this writing.

For more information about H.4121 and the busy last month please see stories below.

GOAL Executive Director Jim Wallace testifies before the Joint Committee on Public Safety & Homeland Security on Tuesday, June 3, 2014.

On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 House Speaker Robert DeLeo released “An Act Relative to the Reduction of Gun Violence” to the general public. Upon reviewing the legis-lation we were very disappointed. GOAL was hoping that after a year of hearings across the state a bill would be drafted that we could immediately support. Sadly, that is not the case.

It was our sincere hope that a bill would emerge that would begin to reform the state’s convoluted and ineffective gun laws. Instead what appeared could be described as Chapter 180 Part II. In 1998 the Massachusetts legislature passed sweeping changes to the gun laws known as Chapter 180. These changes resulted in an alarming

80% reduction in the number of licensed gun owners in the state. As for the ability of these new laws to reduce crime, they have been an abject failure! In the fifteen years since the bill was signed into law, gun-related homicides have doubled and gun related assaults have tripled.

This newly proposed legislation was supposed to be about ad-dressing mental health issues and providing more crime fighting tools. While some of the bill cov-ers those matters to some degree, there are proposals in it that will simply result in the further perse-cution of lawful gun owners. Fur-ther, rather than actually reform-ing the convoluted laws so that

GOAL’s Section By Section Response to H.4121 GOAL Rally/Lobby Day at the State House

“We are here today to demonstrate that lawful gun owners are angry about legislation that would only seek to further persecute them,” said Jim Wallace, Executive Direc-tor of GOAL. “We are disappointed that this legislation is proposing nothing that would stop crimi-nals from perpetrating gun crime. We’re here to tell the Legislature to put a face on the opposition to the bill.

Wallace was joined by many law-makers to rally the crowd includ-ing:

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From the Executive DirectorLaws, Regulations and Policies Don’t Make Us BulletproofOne of the most profound argu-ments in the Second Amendment debate that our opponents never seem to get is that no law will ever make us bulletproof. I suppose this case could be true for those who are not necessarily involved in the struggle directly, but sup-port government interventions via other means. These could be in the form of restraining orders and the dreaded “Zero Tolerance” policies. Neither of which have ever saved a life, in fact it can be successfully argued that they have cost lives.

Despite the overwhelming evi-dence that more laws, regulations and policies (LRPs) won’t make us safer there is that sector of society that wants to put their collective heads in the sand and ignore the truth. No other state in the nation could be more proof of that than Massachusetts. In 1998, the legis-lature passed what has turned out to be the worst in the nation gun laws. Since then, the “get tough on guns” LRPs have resulted in a di-sastrous outcome. All one has to do is review the evidence present-ed in GOAL’s 2013 Report on Gun Crime which clearly illustrates the

drastic increase in violent crimes committed with guns in the last decade.

To a great extent, restraining or-ders and zero tolerance policies aren’t having a much better track record. While we can argue that restraining orders serve their pur-pose to an extent, in severe cases they do nothing to actually pro-tect the potential victim. Since law enforcement can only get involved if a protection order is violated it is often too late and the only thing left to do is the paperwork.

The point is that no official govern-ment document is going to stop a bullet, knife, baseball bat or any-thing else for that matter. If there is truly a need for someone to get a protection order then shouldn’t that be only the first step? People who are in fear of their safety, and perhaps their lives, should not be relying on a piece of paper. Both the government and the petitioner are being irresponsible if they be-lieve otherwise.

The same is equally true of these so-called zero tolerance policies most commonly found in schools and many work places. The one alarming fact with these policies is that if a killer targets you at one of these places, you have a near zero chance of surviving.

The common theme here is that LRPs may make some feel good or safe, but what happens when they eventually fail to stop an attack? The sad answer is normally one or more victims with grieving fami-lies looking for answers.

It is unfortunate that in our mod-ern society here in Massachusetts, criminals, psychopaths, etc. can virtually count on a potential vic-tim or even a group of victims to not fight back. People have be-come so reliant on government that far too many have completely surrendered their own responsi-bility.

Ultimately, our lives and safety are ours to defend or lose. Any kind of so-called preventive or responsive measures offered by our govern-ment should only be considered complimentary to our own ability or at least efforts to defend our-selves. By the way, that includes escaping the situation. The logic has always escaped me when, for instance, a school policy is to hide under a desk in case of attack when there is a perfectly good first floor window to escape out of. If your life depends on escaping then do it, but if your life depends on you or a group to fight back in order to survive than people need to start doing that too.

Sadly, adults and most important-ly children through LRPs are be-ing discouraged from doing what used to come naturally. Even our own Massachusetts Attorney Gen-eral has been in the media telling the public that the state does not encourage self help! What sort of message does that send to the public? Perhaps more important-ly, what message has that attitude sent to the criminal element? Un-fortunately, we already have wit-nessed the answer to the latter.

It is clear we have a lot of work to do here in the Commonwealth in reforming the existing LRPs, but I am afraid that is only going to part of the job. The other part might even be more difficult to change and that is the social attitude to-wards defending ourselves. Some-how we must gather together and re-teach modern society that self defense and the defense of oth-ers is not violence - it is rather the means to stop violence.

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Maura Healey - “Equality” Hypo-crite.

June 2014

History has proven that an elect-ed official or bureaucrat with un-checked power and a misguided agenda is a dangerous enemy of freedom.

For decades now Second Amend-ment civil rights groups have been working to defend freedom against all sorts of politicians, in-dividuals and groups.

The attacks, mainly aimed at low information voters have always been labeled and sold as being reasonable; common sense plans to reduce “gun violence”. The sub-tlety in the verbiage has always been key and as we all know, the plans have done anything but re-duce violence.

housing”. When it comes to our Second Amendment though, she wants nothing to do with it. She is yet another “equality” hypocrite.

Without doubt her most dangerous proposal/threat to our freedom is her recently released “Three Point Plan to Reduce Gun Violence”. The plan is sold as innovative with a fo-cus on the root cause of violence. Let’s take a look.

Starting in the first paragraph we get this gem: “aggressive plan to target gun violence and address the broader public health and safe-ty crisis created by gun violence on the streets and in communities across the Commonwealth.”

We get the usual buzzphrases to check off, “gun violence”, and “public safety crisis”. Isn’t it inter-esting that the “problem of gun

violence” is suddenly becoming a “public health crisis”? Keep in mind, taking even a quick glance at the FBI’s death statistics clearly shows this is not true, yet the term continues to get used with more frequency by those who seek to restrict your freedom. The next buzzphrase, “gun violence”, we’ve covered that one many times, yet there it is again.

The overview of the plan, posted on her website continues for a few paragraphs with the usual rheto-ric talking about how the plan will “fight gun violence”, and discusses a “collaborative effort” (the lib-eral folks sure love to collaborate, don’t they?) She continues dis-cussing more spending and more state agencies and working with “key state thought leaders” (key thought leaders – really?). For the most part it’s fluff with no real sub-stance until we get towards the bottom and the word “technol-ogy” starts to appear and things begin to get really scary.

First we get this, “Healey’s plan in-cludes proposals to close the gun show and private sale loophole.”

Amazing, she’s running for Attor-ney General and doesn’t know that Massachusetts law has no provision for a “gun show loop-hole”, there literally is none, unless of course the transaction is illegal. Also, if this really was a “root cause of gun violence” shouldn’t she be able to prove it, after years in the AG’s office?

She continues with a statement about working with federal legisla-tors to support legislation needed

to fully utilize emerging gun-safety technology, including biometrics.

As you may or may not know, the Obama Administration and Attor-

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“Who knew that the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office had a ‘strong, progressive tradition’?

Shouldn’t the A.G.’s office be non-partisan & free from politics and political rhetoric?”

ney General Eric Holder went pub-lic a few weeks ago with a plan to spend 1.4 billion dollars on reduc-ing “gun violence”. A good-sized chunk of that budget has been earmarked for developing biomet-ric technology for firearms. Clear-ly she wants to “collaborate” with the President on implementing the technology agenda.

The real threat here is that, if elected she may seek implemen-

tation of biometric laws via A.G. regulation. This is the same way we wound up with the much de-spised “A.G.’s list” which outlines which firearms we can and cannot purchase here in MA, back door gun banning at it’s finest.

The good, law-abiding citizens of Massachusetts are up to our col-lective eyeballs with anti-freedom ideologues masquerading as civil rights defenders. The last thing we need is one with unlimited and unchecked power to implement laws or regulations which aggres-sively attack our Second Amend-ment, and other civil rights, all the while doing very little to address the actual problems at hand.

Here in Massachusetts the anti Second Amendment rhetoric goes unchecked for the most part and the bulk of voters whole-hearted-ly support candidates and ideo-logues that espouse the usual an-ti-freedom talking points.

For over 7 years now the state has suffered under the misguided ap-plication of the law from Attorney General Coakley’s office. During this time period one of her go to attorneys has been Maura Healey.

With Coakley now running for Gov-ernor the Attorney General posi-tion has become vacant and Heal-ey is hoping to step right in.

Take a look at her candidacy web-site, her “about” page speaks vol-umes about her political ideology, this snip in particular is especially telling: “Maura has spent years fighting for justice, equal rights, and expanded opportunity, and she has delivered. In the strong, progressive tradition of the Mas-sachusetts Attorney General’s Of-fice, Maura has won victories for Massachusetts families that are felt across the country.”

Who knew that the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office had a “strong, progressive tradition?” Shouldn’t the A.G.’s office be non-partisan and free from politics and political rhetoric?

A look at her “Issues” page also speaks volumes as to her politi-cal outlook, she’s all for protecting civil rights when it’s about going after predatory mortgage banks, or when it applies to her view as to the definition of marriage, or “fair

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But I also heard testimony from legislators and others which was disturbing, to say the least.

Some said that they believe in the Bill of Rights, the Constitution and the Second Amendment, and then in the same breath stated that gun laws save lives and that a bill such as H. 4121 targets criminals and not law abiding citizens.

The problem with gun laws - any gun law that restricts your un-alienable right to defend your life - is a demand that you compromise, even surrender, your rights to the whims of another. Be that any

Bettina’s Take By: Bettina Romberg

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!

On June 3, I spent the day at the State House, listening to the testi-mony on Speaker DeLeo’s bill, H. 4121.

I heard some terrific testimony from many legislators who spoke up for our rights, most notably, Rep. O’Connell, Cole, Peterson, Beaton and Hunt. Thank you for standing up for individual rights!

criminal or even the Chief of Police who claims to have a say on what your rights are and are not.

Rights are moral principles. They define and sanction your freedom to act in society. To compromise on moral principles like your un-alienable right to your own life is like compromising on how much poison you want to have in your next meal. Whether it is a lot or a little, death will always win.

Those who call for you to com-promise on your rights want you to believe that there is no need to have firm definitions on moral principles - such as your life. They want you to be flexible on your right to your own life. How can you be flexible on this fundamental right, when the only alternative to life is death?

Think about the disingenuousness of their demand for you to com-promise, when you learn about this testimony that I witnessed:

A Rabbi testified, stating that somewhere in scripture it says that his freedom inevitably con-flicts with your freedom. He went on to say that your Right to Keep and Bear Arms inevitably conflicts with his right to walk the streets safely.

Despite the very nature of his argu-ment being patently false, as he is very obviously painting law abid-ing citizens with the same brush as criminals, let’s just stop and take a look at what this individual is say-ing.

He is a Rabbi. Like a priest or a minister, he is not speaking as an individual, but as a Rabbi.

Surely he must know how millions

of Jews were murdered in Europe in the 1930’s and 1940’s, and likely would not have been murdered had they not been disarmed.

Surely he must know about Isra-el, where people walk down the street with high powered rifles strapped to their backs in order to guarantee their ability to walk the streets safely.

As it is written in the Declaration of Independence, we have an un-alienable right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness - and to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men deriv-ing their just powers from the con-sent of the governed.

This means that your rights come before the existence of a govern-ment and it is the government’s duty to protect them.

The fact of the matter is that these individuals do not believe you have the unalienable right to your own life. They believe your life is not yours, but is the prop-erty of society, of the government or whatever dictator that comes along.

They expect you to compromise on your rights, and use the dirtiest tricks in the book in order to get you to do so. They try to guilt you and rationalize your rights away

with whatever arbitrary excuse they come up with that day.

This is how they chip away at the Second Amendment.

But like the brave men that found-ed this great nation, we shall not compromise. We know our rights are unalienable and that they must keep their hands off.

Tell them at every chance you have that your rights are yours and it is the duty of the government to up-hold and protect them, not to vio-late them. They derive their just powers from us, the governed, and not the other way around. By using every trick in the book they act as if they are our rulers. In America, we the governed are the Sovereigns and they are our hired hands, our servants.

Like our Founding Fathers, we know what is at stake here. They made the connection that all rights are unalienable and inter-connected. By writing the Second Amendment, they made this clear and unequivocal.

To echo the words of Patrick Hen-ry, “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” - We do not consent!

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lawful citizens and law enforce-ment can better understand them, this bill would actually add to the legal chaos.

There are certain proposals that GOAL can support if the language is drafted correctly like the com-pliance with the 2007 National Instant Check System Improve-ment Amendments Act. There are also sections that cover punishing armed carjackings and home inva-sions that we could support. The bill also addresses the delays in li-censing renewals to some degree.

It is our hope that this legisla-tion can be amended to the point where GOAL and its members can support thoughtful mental health and crime fighting tools. Below is a review of the proposals by sub-ject matter, section and GOAL’s stance:

SECTIONS 1, 10, 11, 12, 42, 43 & 44 (Compliance with the 2007 National Instance Check System Improvement Amendments Act) – Could Support if Drafted Correctly

SECTIONS 2, 3 & 45 (Firearm Re-tailer Employees) – Support

The language in these sections would allow access to CORI infor-mation and mandate that all em-ployees for firearm retailers are subject to such checks.

SECTION 4 (School Resource Of-ficers and Mental Health of Stu-dents) – Support

This section would pave the way for School Resource Officers across the state. There is the concern that schools may not have the financial means to accomplish the task.

A secondary concern is to assure that such officers are exempt un-

der MGL 269 § 10j, carrying fire-arms on school grounds.

Provides for school plans to deal with acute mental health needs.

SECTION 5 (Suicide Awareness Training for School Personnel)

The concept is to make teach-ers and other school employees aware of the warning signs of po-tential suicide at risk persons. Will there be appropriate funding for this and are we asking too much of teachers these days? Perhaps an informational campaign for the students would be more effective.

SECTION 6 &13 (Suicide Preven-tion in Hunter Education Courses & Data Collection) – Oppose

While we understand the impor-tance of suicide prevention, it is our belief that adding such cur-riculum to safe handling courses may be inappropriate. Specifically hunter education courses are na-tionally accredited and may not be able to be changed to meet the criteria. Primarily certified firearm instructors are not versed in men-tal health issues.

There is also language in the sec-tion about collecting data on fire-arm related suicides. If this is to be done, we believe this should be expanded to all types of suicides, especially since the number of sui-cides by hanging/suffocation are more than guns, drugs and poison combined.

SECTION 7 (Physicians and Fire-arms) – Oppose

GOAL strongly objects to physi-cians discussing the “role of fire-arms” with their patients. While we appreciate the effort to rec-ognize suicide risk and mitigate

potential means, these subjects should be dealt with concerning all means of suicides. Further, it is likely that this matter would be better suited to licensed mental health professionals.

SECTION 8 & 9 (Hospitalization and Evaluation) – Need More Clari-fication

It is not quite clear what is being accomplished with these sections. If it is for the purpose of making sure that persons needing help are receiving it that would be a good start. We do need to clarify that persons who have been evaluated and released as not needing treat-ment should not be disqualified.

SECTIONS 15, 21 & 28 (Posting of and Printing of Suicide Prevention Numbers) – Oppose

These sections seek to mandate that firearm retailers post infor-mation about suicide prevention and that phone numbers for such information be placed on firearm licenses. While we appreciate le-gitimate methods for reducing

suicides, such mandates would only go further to stigmatize law-ful gun ownership and are unlikely to have the positive effect sought.

SECTION 16 & 46 (Firearm Retailer Records) – Oppose

This section would mandate that firearm retailers who have closed their business must forward their records to EOPSS. It is already mandated at the federal level that all such materials are to be hand-ed over to the BATFE, why does the state need them as well? This would only add more bureaucracy and useless data to a system that is already in a mess.

SECTION 17 (Technical Correction)

SECTION 18 (Banning “Private Sales”) – Oppose

This section would needlessly ban the private sales of guns by licensed citizens. Under current law lawfully licensed citizens are limited to four such sales in a cal-endar year. The seller has to be legally licensed and thus has gone through a background check. The purchaser has to be legally li-censed and thus has gone through a background check. Then a state transfer form (FA-10) must be com-pleted and submitted to the state within seven days giving the state a second chance at reviewing the transfer.

Another problem exists as there are many high quality handguns that cannot be lawfully trans-ferred by firearm retailers. As the language in this bill would even further complicate that problem it is not be justifiable to ban private transfers on those firearms.

SECTIONS 19 & 26 (Firearm Identi-fication Cards & Licenses to Carry) – Oppose

Expands the “suitability” clause currently in the License to Carry laws to the FID Card.

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This changes FID cards from a “shall issue” to a “may issue” mak-ing it a discretionary license. It also adds “good reason” language to FID cards, meaning a citizen would have to provide a reason for wanting an FID card.

Adds the ability for licensing offi-cers to place arbitrary restrictions on FID Card holders.

In both the FID card and LTC laws it lowers the two year misdemeanor disqualifier to only one year. This could easily result in thousands more citizens losing their civil rights.

Adds misdemeanor crime of do-mestic violence

Removes the right to apply for an FID card after a five year period of a conviction of a nonviolent crime.

Adds extensive mental health lan-guage as for commitments and hospitalization that uses the term “confined”, but offers no definition for what that is.

Creates additional language for drug and alcohol addiction, still has the “cured” language which has been a problem.

EOPSS to establish rules/ regula-tions for suitability with the advice of the Mass Chiefs and GCAB but will NOT be in law. The suitability clause has been widely abused by some local chiefs, but yet they are going to be allowed to determine definitions.

SECTION 20 & 27 (Receipt for Li-cense Applications) – Support*

This section would mandate that a receipt is given when a license application is received. The re-ceipt would provide evidence that a license would be valid until the system has approved or denied the application. This would relieve at least some of the problems with the system.

We would like to see the system fixed as a whole to assure that li-censed individuals can expect a professional level of service for the high license fees they pay.

We would also like to make sure that said receipts would make the license valid for purchasing guns and ammunition while they are waiting for the full renewal.

SECTION 22 & 30 (Gun Registra-tion & Penalties for not Renewing Early) - Oppose

Would require gun owners to sub-mit an affidavit at time of appli-cation on lost or stolen firearms. Since reporting such matters is already law, why are we wasting time with yet another bureau-cratic step? This is obviously an attempt at backdoor gun registra-tion which has always led to con-fiscation.

The section also allows for penal-ties if gun owners do not renew their licenses 90 days early! What could be the purpose of this other than pure harassment?

SECTION 23 (Technical Correction)

SECTION 24 & 31 (Lowering Fines for Renewals) – Support

Reduces the fine for an expired li-cense from $500 to $100.

SECTION 25 (Increased Penalties for Failure to Report Lost or Stolen Guns) – OPPOSE

The main reason for licensed gun owners being wary of reporting a theft or loss is the abuse of the “suitability” that this bill even seeks to expand. For good reason, gun owners fear that if they make such a report that they will have their license revoked. As evidence there is an ongoing case where it took the thieves two days to break into the safe and the homeowner was still brought up on charges for unsafe storage. If the government

wants the assistance of lawful gun owners then we would strongly suggest that it begin to earn our trust.

SECTION 29 (LTC Renewals) – Sup-port

This section changes the renewal language for a License to Carry concerning renewals. The law will now allow licenses to remain valid until the renewal process is com-pleted.

We would want to make sure that there is a means to make sure fire-arm and ammunition purchases will be legal during this time.

SECTION 32: (Further Complicat-ing the Approved Firearm Roster) – Oppose

For almost two decades there has been great confusion over what handguns can be legally sold in the Commonwealth. This has been caused by two different state enti-ties claiming authority over these sales.

The current laws allow for compa-nies to have their products tested and if passed placed on the Ap-

proved Firearms Roster through the Executive Office of Public Safe-ty and Security (EOPSS). There are also regulations under the Con-sumer Protection laws through the Attorney General’s office over the sale and manufacture of hand-guns.

These two entities have confused gun owners and retailers as a list is published, but the Attorney Gen-eral does not recognize it. So rath-er than clarify the problem, this legislation would make the matter worse by giving the Attorney Gen-eral the authority to arbitrarily re-move firearms from the list.

SECTION 33: (Increase Penalties for Storage Violations) – Oppose

Drastically increases penalties for storage violations. The question is why? Is there a particular need for such increases?

There is also a change in the law regarding severe penalties, up to 15 years in prison, for access to large capacity rifles or shotguns, handguns and machine guns to anybody under the age of 18, re-

At the June 3rd hearing two of Speaker DeLeo’s “gun violence” panel members, Chairman Jack McDevitt (L) and David Hemenway (R) were asked some direct questions about the conclusions of their report.They had no answers, no facts and no data to back up many of their recommendations.

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GOAL News - Print EditionGOAL Testifies at Public Hearing for Speaker DeLeo’s H.4121

Full house at the Gardner Auditorium. Standing Room Only. The first few hours of the public hearing were literally standing room only, once the “bussed in” crowd started to leave, everyone was able to take a seat.

Rep. Matt Beaton testified against H.4121, scoring great points about the many faults of the legislation.

In the hot seat. GOAL Executive Director Jim Wallace answers questions for the Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security.

Assistant Minority Leader George Peterson took the bill apart as only he can. George is a good friend of GOAL and the Second Amendment.

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GOAL News - Print EditionGOAL Rally & Lobby Day at the Massachusetts State House.

GOAL Exec. Director Jim Wallace emcee’d the event and made some great points about the many faults of H.4121.

Thank you to Senator Mike Moore for standing with GOAL!

Thank you to Representative Matt Beaton for standing with GOAL!Assistant Minority Leader George Peterson promised to “kill the bill” should it make it past the extension and into “informal session”.

Thank you Representative Keiko Orrall for standing with GOAL!Representative Leah Cole had everyone smiling. Thank your Rep. Cole for standing with GOAL!

It was a beautiful day, a little on the hot side but nice none the less.Representative Shaunna O’Connell addreses the crowd. Thank you Rep. O’Connell for standing with GOAL!

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GOAL Training

Course Date Tuition TimeThe Art of Concealed Carry in Massachusetts

September 17, November 19 Members $75.00 Non-Members $125.00

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September 18, November 20 Members $25.00 Non-Members $25.00

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2014 GOAL Training Schedule

Below is the schedule for courses held at GOAL Headquarters in Northboro, Massachusetts (unless otherwise noted).

All NRA Basic Pistol courses offered through GOAL exceed standards established in accordance with Massachusetts General Law Chapter . 140, § 131P and 515 CMR 3.00 Please note: All courses run 5:30 pm to 9:30 pm unless otherwise noted.

All courses require pre-regisration paid in full. This can be done in person at The GOAL office, via phone 508-393-5333 x20, or via email by contacting Angela Fisher.

**Please Note** Registration for the three Rob Pincus classes will not open until Tuesday January 7, 2014

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Join GOAL - Protecting Your Freedom Begins Here!Gun Owners’ Action League is the official state firearms association in Massachusetts. We are an asso-ciation of law-abiding citizens who believe in the basic right of fire-arms ownership for competition, recreation and self-protection.

GOAL works hard to defend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights against those in Massachusetts who wish to infringe upon the freedoms guaranteed by our fore-fathers. The programs sponsored and developed by Gun Owners’ Action League are supported by competitors, sportsmen, recre-ational shooters and law enforce-ment throughout the state.

We were formed in 1974 to protect the right to keep and bear arms for lawful purposes in the Common-wealth of Massachusetts. We are recognized as the state’s premier gun rights association.

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· Sen. Michael Moore

· Rep. Matt Beaton

· Rep. Shaunna O’Connell

· Rep. George Peterson

· Rep. Marc Lombardo

· Rep. Leah Cole

· Rep. Nick Boldyga

· Rep. Todd Smola

· Rep. Keiko Orrall

· Rep. Geoff Diehl

· Rep. Steve Howitt

· Rep. Angelo D’Emilia

· Rep. Susan Gifford

· Rep. Peter Durant

Currently, the Speaker’s gun con-trol bill, H. 4121, is before the House Ways and Means Commit-tee after being reported out of the Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security by a 7-6-3 vote last week.

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Southeast Region: Norfolk, Bristol, Plymouth, Barnstable and Dukes

Our new Membership Recruiting Team will be responsible for grow-ing our membership via signing up new members and renewing the membership of existing members at gun shows, club events, etc.

If you enjoy going to gun shows and gun clubs, are passionate about protecting, defending and restoring our Second Amendment Rights and enjoy talking to and meeting new people we would like to talk to you!

Your compensation will be driv-en by your results; commission is generous and will be paid for every new member or renewal signed up.

All applicants must be GOAL mem-bers, must have a valid FID/LTC and the ability to travel.

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gardless if they have a license. What is the purpose for removing the licensed junior shooter exemp-tion? This will greatly complicate providing junior shooters with safety training and the ability to compete and practice their sport.

SECTION 34 (Drastic Changes to the Certified Instructor Training Program) – Oppose

It removes the recognition of in-structors certified by a nationally recognized organization (NRA).

Grants the Colonel of the State Police wide “suitability” author-ity over who can be a certified in-structor.

Hints that there will be one stan-dardized curriculum for all firearm safety courses and it will be cre-ated by the state.

Adds mandatory live fire to all courses that will add expense to non-fire courses. This may also make the Hunter Education cours-

es ineligible since Massachusetts does include live fire.

Seeks to include suicide preven-tion and “harm reduction” into the curriculum.

SECTION 36 (Tracing of Guns used in Crime) – Support*

This particular piece is actually included in GOAL Civil Rights and Public Safety bill where we pro-pose to create the Criminal Fire-arms and Trafficking Division.

One concern we do have is the sharing of private information that could be misused as has been done in the past.

SECTION 37 (Penalties for Armed Carjacking) – Support

SECTION 38 & 39 (Penalties for Armed Home Invasion) - Support

SECTION 40 (Possession of Fire-arms While Intoxicated) – Sup-

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Upcoming Competition and Events• Townsend Rod and Gun Club - Competition Bowling Pin Shoot - July 13

- August 10 - September 14 - October 12 - Click here for more info. • Woburn Sportsmen’s Association DCM/CMP Competition Program.

50-shot National Match Course. Open to all shooters 16 years of age or older; juniors are encouraged. Dates: 7/27, 9/28, 10/26; Time: Check-in at range 8:45- 9:15 AM. Firing begins at 10:00 AM. Place: WSA. Highpower Range, 155 Middlesex Tpk., Bedford, MA. Entry: includes full payment & completed entry form. Squadding limited to 36 entrants. Match Fee $15.00 (checks payable to Woburn Sportsmen’s Association); Juniors $5.00 (16 - 20 yrs. old). For more information, contact Mark Mulvaney Jr; E-mail: cmp@woburnsportsmen.com.

• Fitchburg Sportsmen’s Club - Beginner Trap Shooting Clinics will be held from 9 am to Noon on the following dates: Saturday, July 12, and Sunday, August 10. The clinics are free and open to the public. One on one instruction, all safety equipment, and firearms are provided. Youth ages 10 and up must be accompanied by a parent. The Rifle Range will be closed during the Trap Clinics.Trap shoots on Wednesdays at 6:00 PM. These are open to the public and are held at the Club located at 289 Rindge State Road, (Route 119), Ashburnham, MA. For more information please contact Keith Maynard via email kbmaynes45@netzero.net. We usually have some hamburgers and hot dogs available along with soda for purchase at a very reasonable price. - stop by and break some clays!

• Lowell Sportsmen’s Club - Trap & Skeet: every Sunday at 1pm and Wednesday at 10am, $3/round

• Marlboro Fish & Game Club - 3D archery - full breakfast & sign up start-ing at 7 AM in the hall. If you are new to archery this is a fun way to learn to shoot actual 3 dimensional targets in a hunting scenario. Check our website for more details.

• The Old Colony Sportsman’s Assoc. is holding As-Issued MIlitary Matches on July 13, Aug.17, Sept.14 and Oct. 5 , 2014. The location of the range is: Old Colony Sportman’s Assn. in Pembroke, MA. Firing Begins: 8:30am. For more information you may contact the match direc-tor: Franco Scarpino at italianseabee@hotmail.com.

• Swift River Sportsman’s Club -Sunday, June 29 - 10:00-2:00 - Utah Concealed Carry Permit Class. The Utah CCW permit will enable you to legally carry a concealed handgun in over 31 STATES! Upon completion you will also be qualified to apply for Concealed Carry permits in Florida and Maine. Cost $100 - RSVP by Friday, June 27 to Ray at 413-323-9387 or 413-237-7152

• Wrentham Sportsmen’s Association - Rifle, .22 Rim Fire, Bench rest - (your rest or club rest) $20.00 entry fee. 1:00 pm start.

• Petersham Gun Club - Sporting Clays course open every Wednesday at 12 noon. Sundays open 10am till 1pm. Hot lunch served every Sunday. Contact petershamgunclub12@gmail.com.

• If your club has an open to the public event you would like to promote, please email the info to mike@goal.org

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We would like to see some clari-fication that people on moderate doses of prescribed medication are not caught up in any such pen-alties.

SECTION 41 (Increasing Penalties for Carrying a Firearm on School Grounds) – Oppose

This law needs to be amended to allow lawfully licensed citizens to carry on school grounds. There exists an absolute right to protect life and that right should not stop at the edge of school property.

SECTION 47 (Special Commission on School Emergency Response) – Support*

The members of the commission should include individuals who are specially trained for such re-sponses as these specialties have drastically changed in the last few years.

SECTION 48 (Commission for Men-tal Health in Schools) – Support*

Mental health issues have come to the forefront in the past sev-eral years. Every tragedy we have witnessed recently has been the

result of a very disturbed person that was not helped. This com-mission should actually be much broader and look at the state of mental health services across the Commonwealth. GOAL has sug-gested that the legislature look at drafting a mental health omnibus bill or bond bill in the next session.

SECTION 49 (Commission to Study the Safekeeping of Firearms for Distressed People) – Support

SECTION 50 (Class B Licenses) – Needs Redrafting

It appears that this section was intended to do away with the LTC Class B licenses. These licenses have seldom been issued because of the confusion over what one can possess on them. We agree that the Class B should be eliminated, the problem is that the language only states that they shall not be issued. This could be taken a com-pletely different way to a licensing officer. The language needs to be redrafted removing the Class B from section 131 and subsequent laws entirely and then transform-ing all Class Bs currently issued to Class A licenses.

Just the facts: This chart compiled from state of MA statistics clearly shows that Chapter 180 has done nothing to prevent violent crime.

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Club News: Worcester Pistol & Rifle

Worcester Pistol and Rifle Club

June 5, 2014CORRECTION TO MAY MINUTES – Ann KerouacMy sincere apology to KAHR ARMS for the misspelling of the company name last month.President Al Bonofiglio opened the meeting at 7:00 pmReports:Secretary – Ann KerouacAnn read the E-Board minutes into the record.Treasurer’s Report – Mike Swett: Mike presented an accounting of the Club’s current funds.One large purchase was just made. The Club now has a Kabota 60” deck lawn tractor to replace our old walk behind mower. Anyone who is inter-ested in mowing the ranges should see Al after the meeting to learn how to use the machine.We will also be purchasing a trailer for the tractor and a new string trimmer.Membership – Brian Frappier: Mem-bership stands at 767 members, which breaks down to 57 Life, 706 Regular, 1 Junior and 2 Honorary and 1 Knox Box. Not included in the 767 are 12 Life Members who have not renewed yet and 1 member who has taken a Leave of Absence.We still have 7 members who have paid for their fobs, but haven’t picked them up and 30 members who haven’t paid for their fobs.Tonight we have the last of the ap-plicants for membership this year. The next Orientation will take place in April 2015. Anyone interested in membership should send in a signed and dated application for Member-ship. When received, the name will be added to the list for the April Ori-entation.Applicants to be voted in tonight:Raymond Binette, Joseph P Cecchi, Craig J Cogswell, Michael P Curci, Jonathan Filgate, Robert Fitzgerald, Andrew L Freilich, Phil Genatossio, David F Guba, Colleen Keegan, Josh-ua B Lafave, Hai Min Luo, Christopher Milazzo, Amy Mullen, John Pacek, Edward Perez, Jr., Mark Santospago, Frank ScaliseAll applicants were voted into Mem-bership.Fallen Member: Al Bonofiglio report-ed that we have lost a 58-year Life member. Joseph Charles Sharameta, Sr. passed away Monday, June 2nd. After the meeting, we will conduct a moment of silence and fire a ceremo-nial shot. Executive Officer Report – Bill Hardell - Calendar Events: Current 2014 calendars are posted at the club through September. The full year on-line version is posted. Please remem-ber to check the on-line version for updates. We will be adding addition-al training events through the year. Please review the calendar and con-tact Bill Hardell with any changes and or corrections. If you have a request to schedule event please see Bill. June Schedule: GOAL NRA Basic Pistol: Tuesday 06/24/14, OP or IR, 1300 – 1600Holiday Range Rules are in effect for Friday, 07/04/14Steel Challenge: Sunday 07/06/14 OP / AP / RR, 1200 – 1600IDPA Practice on 07/06/14 @ 1700 IDPA Match: 07/12/14 @ 0800

GOAL NRA Basic Pistol: Tuesday 07/08/14 and 07/22/14, OP or IR, 1300 – 1600GOAL EDC Skills & Knowledge: Tues-day, 07/15/14, 1000 – 1700, ARGOAL Principles of Concealed Carry: Saturday 07/19/14, 1000 – 1700 APWork Party Sunday 07/13/14 @ 0800Pin Shoots: Sunday 07/27/14, OP, 1200 Set-Up, 1230 Registration, 1245 Safety Brief HFS: Sunday, 07/27/14, 1300, (Meet-ing Room)Reminder: All training events have to be scheduled. Members wishing to conduct a training event must coordi-nate with the XO. Any non-standard training must have E-Board approval.Please remember to contact Bill Hardell for any additions or deletions to the calendar. You can use the link from the club website under the “Club Officers” tab. Any additions / correc-tions need to be made two weeks out so we can get them posted on-line. Indoor / Outdoor Ranges - Mike Hen-ry: The next Work Party is scheduled for 06/08/14. The July Work Party is on 07/13/14. Remember, Work Party credits are tied to the new renewal schedule. Please remember to use the dud bucket. Try to remember to put duds only in the dud bucket. Expended brass goes in the brass buckets.Website: Website maintenance con-tinues on an almost daily basis. Craig Hibbert has made numerous changes to the calendar, updated the format to support a new tab with meeting min-utes and maintained the home page. Please contact Bill for any questions regarding the website.Newsletter – Mary Malesky: Minutes will need to be done quickly to get into the GOAL newsletter. Anything that WPRC would like put into the summer issues can be submitted on the usual schedule.GOAL – Jon Green: Jon provided members with a list of Representa-tives for Club Members to contact regarding House 4121. Please call TODAY and ask them to oppose the legislation as written – ask that they work with GOAL and draft new leg-islation that everyone can support. They’re trying to get this done by July 31st, so PLEASE be a part of the solu-tion and make some phone calls.FOR MORE INFORMATION REGARDING GOAL, GO TO THE WEBSITE AT WWW.GOAL.ORGWorcester County League – Dave Morin: The last meeting was held at Eight Points Sportsmen’s Club in Ster-ling on May 16, 2014. Twenty-one clubs were present – Au-burn Sportsmen’s Club, Barre Sports-men’s Club, Bay Path Archers, Brook-field Rod & Gun, Century Sportsman’s Club, Hamilton Rod & Gun Club, Fitch-burg Sportsmen’s Club, Hubbardston Rod & Gun Club, Leicester Rod & Gun Club, Maspenock Rod & Gun Club, Nimrod League of Holden, Norco Sportsmen’s Club, North Brookfield Sportsmen’s Club, North Grafton Fish, Game & Bird Club, North Worcester Fox & Coon Club, Otter River Sports-men’s Club, Spencer Fish & Game Club, South Barre Rod & Gun Club, Worcester Pistol and Rifle Club and the 200 Sportsman’s Club.Guest Speaker was Bill Davis, District Supervisor of the Central Wildlife Dis-trict, Division of Fisheries & Wildlife. Bill spoke on trout stocking and ac-tivities that are ongoing in the Central District.Please support House Bill 750 and

write or call you legislators to do the same. This Bill concerns the trapping of furbearing animals. John Root reported on the Ware River Watershed – the May meeting con-centrated on invasive species control. The fall clean up is planned for Octo-ber 4, 2014.Wachusett Mountain Advisory Coun-cil reported that new signs at the peak were discussed at the last meet-ing. A proposal to create a new mul-tiuse trail in the Princeton area was presented. It was mentioned that the trail would not be hard-surfaced so as not to interfere with the laws pertain-ing to the discharge of a firearm or re-lease of any arrow.A motion was made, seconded and passed to for WCL to donate $1,000.00 to FAWNS to help fund the Big M.O.E.John Root also reported on the Al-drich Astronomical Society “Adopt a Library” Program. The Society is providing telescopes to libraries in Central Massachusetts. These can be loaned out to patrons over eighteen. A motion to fund a telescope was made, seconded and passed.Next meeting will be held at North Worcester Fox & Coon Cub Club in Holden on June 20, 2014.WPRC currently has three representa-tives to the Worcester County League. Any Club member can volunteer to be our fourth member.Mike, the Raffle Guy – Mike Burch-man: Mike explained the Monthly and the Big Spring RafflesThe Gun Parlor donated a variety of ammunition for Al will be contacting Kahr Arms for the donation of a gun for next years big raffle.Competitive Shooting - Worcester Pistol Team – Tim Wells:Pin Shoot – Ann for John Cunning-hamOnly eleven shooters attended the last match. It was a week early due to the Memorial Day weekend. All com-petitors competed in the same divi-sion, rimfire and centerfire, semi-auto and revolver. The match winners are Steve Pusateri, Alec Lopez and Shaun Schlichte. The next pin shoot is Sun-day June 22nd – one week early due to the Kelly match at Harvard. Regis-tration starts at noon and first shots are at 12:30. All are invited!Receipts are running about thirteen percent ahead of last year with about a nine percent increase in partici-pants.IDPA - Bill ThorpeMatches are first Saturday after the first Sunday of each month. Practic-es are held on the first Sunday of the month.This month the match has changed to second Saturday due to a scheduling conflict.We continue to have good attendance at our matches.Steel Plate Challenge – Mike FrenchMike informed members about how the Steel Match Challenge works.There is a flyer downstairs, as well as a website for more information and to register. First match was held June 1, 2014. Very successful with 63 shooters! Sixty five percent of the shooters who showed up are completely new to the shooting sport.Matches are the first Sunday of every month. The cost is $10.00 for Mem-bers and $15.00 for non-Members. Registration can be done online.

Thank you – Al BonofiglioAl thanked John, Bill, Mike and Tim for all the hard work they put in run-ning all of the competitive matches. It’s because of volunteers like them that the Club has successful teams.OLD BUSINESS – noneDefibrillators – Tom has not forgot-ten, but has yet to acquire any new information regarding cost. Stock Certificates – Mike SwettOld WPRC Stock certificates from sometime in the 1940’s and 50’s are available for Members to purchase for $5.00. NEW BUSINESS: 18th Annual Big M.O.E – Dave MorinDave made a motion for the Club to donate $300.00. Motion was second-ed and approved unanimously.Member questions -Member pointed out that it’s not stat-ed in the by-laws that Members can’t record our meetings. E-Board response - No, it is not in the by-laws, but it is not allowed.Outlet behind the backstop doesn’t work – Electrician will repair in the morning.Anyone clearing the lead should be wearing professional respirator – Club may be engaging a company that will take over the lead cleanup so our Club members will not need to do this work. If we do not hire the com-pany, the Club may purchase respira-tors.Good and Welfare of the Club – John Gabriel: Every couple of years you should request a record of your guns from the Firearms Records Bureau to see whether it’s up-to-date.If you purchased firearms before 1985, the records may be gone. They had been stored in a warehouse and were damagedSafety Officer – John Gabriel: Make sure you sign in WHEN YOU GET HERE and have your guests also sign upon arrival. Sign out AT THE TIME YOU LEAVE.Next E-Board meeting June 18, 2014 at 6:30Next General meeting September 4, 2014 at 7:00 Motion to adjourn at 7:54 pm

President al bonofiglio takes the maiden voyage with the clubs new kubota lawn mower

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lets might even be from different suppliers. Even if the bullets are roughly the same nominal diam-eter and weight, variations in their shape will affect the seating depth, flight characteristics, the rate at which they lose velocity, and ultimately their point of impact on the target.

The match bullets that I used in the handloads are all from the same lot, made by the same machine, on the same day. I seated the bullets using a competition seating die that inserts the bullet into the case by pressing on the ogive rather than the bullet tip. The end result is extremely consistent C.O.A.L. as measured with the bullet comparator. There was literally no measurable variation in the comparator length of the handloads.

To test this hypothesis, I neck-sized some of the disassembled factory cases, and then reassembled five rounds using the original powder, but replaced the factory 55gr FMJ bullets with Berger 52Gr match bullets; which I seated to a C.O.A.L. of 2.250” with a competition seating die. Figure 3 shows the resulting group from the ‘new’ factory ammo.

By changing nothing but the bullet (and possibly the seating depth), I was able to shoot a sub MOA group with factory ammo that previously produced group sizes in excess of 2 MOA.

An interesting experiment might be to take a larger quantity of factory ammo try shooting some groups using rounds that were sorted first by comparator C.O.A.L. and then by case head-to-bullet tip C.O.A.L. Sorting them in this way makes it likely that each ‘batch’ of cartridges will have the same (or similar) bullets.

For the handloader, this exercise reinforces the notion that good bullets make good ammo, and that even carefully weighed powder charges and properly pre-pared brass cannot compensate for inconsistent bullets. The best route to mak-ing match-quality ammo is to use match-quality bullets.

Jim Finnerty is an NRA-Certified Metallic Cartridge Reloading instructor. Jim teaches the reloading classes at GOAL, as well as at gun shops and clubs around the area. For more information, please visit Jim’s website at www.MassReloading.com

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Figure 3 – This sub-MOA group is the result of using more consistent bullets

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Reloading Bench By: Jim Finnerty Why Are Handloads More Accurate Than Factory Ammo?

June 2014

In the last article, I fired a series of five-shot groups with both factory and handloaded ammo to see which was more accurate. Predictably, the handloaded ammo produced smaller groups (see the best group from each in Figure 1). The difference in precision between the two types of cartridges was a bit of a surprise – the average group size for the handloads was around 0.6 MOA, while the factory XM193 ammo pro-duced > 2 MOA groups. This month, we’ll try to make some educated guesses as to why there was such a big difference.

Figure 1 – The 2.2 MOA group on the left was typical of factory ammo, while handloaded ammo yielded .6 MOA

groups such as the one on the right

VariationCharge Weight +/- .1grBullet Weight 54.9 to 55.4 grsCase Length 1.753 +/- .002"Case Weight 96.4 +/- .6grHeadspace Length +/- .0015"

Table 1 – Some of the measure variables on the factory ammo were remarkably consistent

Table 2 – Cartridge Overall Length (C.O.A.L.) measured from the case head to the bullet tip

Table 3 – The C.O.A.L. as measured with a bullet comparator shows much greater variation in length with the factory ammo

than with the handloads.

Factory Ammo HandloadsMinimum 2.255" 2.288"Maximum 2.245" 2.285"Average 2.251" 2.287"Maximum Spread 0.010" 0.003"Std Deviation 0.003" 0.001"

Factory Ammo HandloadsMinimum 2.821" 2.284"Maximum 2.800" 2.284"Average 2.811" 2.284"Maximum Spread 0.021" 0.000"Std Deviation 0.006" 0.000"

C.O.A.L. (from case head to bullet tip)

C.O.A.L. (measured using a bullet comparator)

Figure 2 – The Bullet Comparator installed on this caliper measures from the case head to a spot on the bullet roughly equal to the bore

diameter

I actually purchased two boxes of factory ammo for this test. I shot groups with one box, and reserved the cartridges from the second box to take a series of measurements that I hoped would help to explain the difference in group size.

Using these cartridges, I measured cartridge overall length (with and without a bullet comparator), and cartridge headspace length. I also took the cartridges apart and measured the powder charge weight, case length, bullet length, bullet weight, and case weight (with the primer). Based on these measurements, I was able to make an educated guess as to which factors caused the difference in precision. One item in par-ticular stood out, and it’s a very easy thing to correct when making your own ammo.

First, let’s list some of the variables where the factory ammo was con-

sistent. It is unlikely that the items in Table 1 (above) contributed to the inaccuracy of the factory ammo in a significant way.

The factory powder charge weights were nearly as precise as what I used in the handloaded ammo. The brass cases were also very con-sistent. The bullet weight variation was only slightly larger than what I measured in a sample of the match bullets used for the handloads.

With consistent charge weights, bullet weights, and cases, one would expect consistent velocity from the factory ammo as well. As it turns out, the velocity was quite repeatable with the factory ammo. The max-imum measure velocity was 3410 FPS, the minimum was 3333 FPS. The resulting extreme spread of 77 fps would account for only about 0.1” of vertical shot dispersion at 100 yards. Clearly, something other than the velocity was to blame for the inaccuracy.

So what caused the difference in group size? The short answer is, “The bullets did, because they’re not all the same shape.” Table 2 shows the measurements of cartridge overall length for both the factory ammo and the handloads. This measurement represents the distance from the case head to the tip of the bullet.

The factory ammo exhibits significantly more variation in C.O.A.L. than the handloads – 0.010” compared to 0003” for the handloads. One pos-

sible reason for this variation could be that rough handling has caused the tips of the factory bullets to become slightly more deformed than the bullets in the handloaded ammo, and therefore “threw off” the mea-surement. After all, the factory ammo is military style “bulk” ammo – it’s not as if the manufacturer treats it with kid gloves.

One way to eliminate the ‘damaged tip’ variable from the measurement is to use a device called a “Bullet Comparator”. The bullet comparator is an adapter that fits onto a dial caliper that features a caliber-specific insert. The comparator and insert allow you to measure the cartridge overall length from the case head to the point on the bullet where the bullet’s diameter equals the bore diameter (see Figure 2).

Table 3 shows the C.O.A.L. measure with the bullet comparator in place. Surprisingly, although this method of measurement eliminates varia-tions caused by tip deformities, the factory ammo shows more than double the variability than with the ‘raw’ case head-to-tip C.O.A.L. mea-surement. Instead of improving, it got worse!

The only possible explanation for a greater length difference with the comparator than without is that the bullets themselves are actually dif-ferent.

Inexpensive factory ammo is assembled using bulk bullets that were made by different machines, with different tooling, set up by different operators, on different days. Depending on the manufacturer, the bul-

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