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MCA Current News and Developments
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[September 2024] H.4885 (new iteration of H4135) passed house and senate, the governor signed as expected to become Chapter 135. Now there is a statewide campaign MCA has helped organize with many partnerships, organized under The Civil Rights Coalition, www.thecivilrightscoalition.com.  There is a statewide effort with a Referendum Ballot petition signing campaign to delay the implementation of Chapter 135/H4885 to a MA voter question for the fall of 2026.  We request you to go out and sign the petition before Sept 30, 2024.  


GOAL Launches “ProcessMatters.org” campaign to expose the deceitful manner that the Massachusetts Legislature utilized to pass anti-civil rights legislation. A calculated path of arrogance, deception, and bigotry! How the Massachusetts legislature broke every rule to attack the 2A community!.
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Msg 3/6/24: GOAL is urging all of our members to contact the H4139 Committee Conferees and oppose any new restrictions on lawful citizens!  There is nothing in any of the language that will reduce violent crime or address the mental health epidemic.   More details www.goal.org/gunban

For email and postal addresses for the 6 legislators, please visit website
https://www.goal.org/gunban [email protected] (D) [email protected] (D) [email protected] (R) [email protected] (D) [email protected] (D) [email protected] (R)

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MCA leaders (l to r) at the Sept Boston Common/Statehouse Rally: Wayne Adams (WCL), Paul Johnson (PCL), Mike Veloza (BCL), Charlie Louis (BCL) , (taking the picture John Mawhinney (BCL))

Our Mission

To promote, protect, and restore outdoor pursuits in Massachusetts including hunting, fishing, trapping, wildlife management, habitat and species management, public access, outdoor recreation and firearm ownership to the general end that the present and succeeding generations may continue to enjoy and to use these great natural resources.

Our Purpose

To make sportsmen and women a powerful political voice by forming an alliance of sportsmen organizations with organizations sharing the MCA’s mission and values. Individually we are weak, but together we are strong. The Massachusetts Conservation Alliance was reformed in June of 2018. It originated from years of working with numerous sportsmen’s organizations on hundreds of different issues.  The service and representation of our members is our absolute highest priority.

Our Commitment to MASSACHUSETTS

​Sportsmen and women are the backbone of American fish and wildlife conservation. Together we have been responsible for the conservation and recovery of species across the country and have worked tirelessly to promote our deep-rooted traditions. Doing so means that we must stand together in our efforts to support science based fish and wildlife management and stand ready to defend our rights. If we want responsible – science based – management of our resources we must stand together!  Based on extensive input from Massachusetts sportsmen and women, here are our goals and commitments:
  • To educate the public concerning the American heritages of hunting, trapping and fishing 
  • To promote, support and expand opportunities for sport fishing and hunting throughout the Commonwealth
  • To promote and explain field sports, wildlife conservation and scientific wildlife management practices through literature, films, the press, television, social media, the internet, and radio
  • Promote and protect all fish and wildlife management tools necessary to conserve all species
  • Proactive participation in legislative, regulatory, administrative and judicial policy-making decisions affecting Massachusetts’s natural resources and their uses
  • Defend and protect the right of individuals to keep, use, and bear firearms 
  • To do any and all things· that are necessary ​for, or incident to, the purposes hereinbefore stated