AG Campbell Sabotaging Ballot Question to Repeal Chapter 135
On March 30, 2026 GOAL received an email from the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office regarding the ballot question to repeal Chapter 135. The email, which was also sent to the Giffords Foundation, Brady United, and Everytown, asked us to assist them in creating: “… a fair and neutral one-sentence statement describing the effect of a yes or no vote for inclusion in the Information for Voters Guide.”
Supposedly after consulting with the Secretary of State, the following is what AG Campbell is proposing:
A YES VOTE would keep in place the law, which increases the regulation of firearms, including ghost guns, machine guns, and assault-style weapons.
A NO VOTE would repeal this law.
“You have to be kidding us,” said Jim Wallace, Executive Director of GOAL. “Chapter 135 represents the worst attack on civil rights in modern U.S. history and this is what they are going to tell the public? They are not even trying to hide the corruption and collusion with anti-civil rights organizations anymore! There is nothing fair or neutral about this.”
“Ever since Chairman Day began this crusade against our Second Amendment civil rights, the level of corruption at every step of the process is unprecedented,” said Toby Leary, Chairman of The Civil Rights Coalition. “It is evident that post-COVID, the checks and balances our ancestors instilled in the Constitution no longer exist in the Commonwealth.”
GOAL will be working with The Civil Rights Coalition on exploring legal options to curtail the intentional misleading propaganda.
Email from Attorney General Campbell:
As you know, the Attorney General and the Secretary of State must prepare for each Article 48 Initiative Petition or Referendum a ballot question title and a fair and neutral one-sentence statement describing the effect of a yes or no vote for inclusion in the Information for Voters Guide. See G.L. c. 54, § 53. You can view past IFV Guides on the Secretary’s website here:
I am reaching out to you because you either submitted this referendum, participated in the Attorney General’s certification and summary process, or otherwise may be an interested party. If this communication should go to someone else, please feel free to forward it. I do ask that you coordinate responses with others so that there is only one point of contact for or against the referendum.
Following consultation with the Secretary of State, the Attorney General is proposing the following draft title and yes/no statement for this referendum, subject to further internal discussion and revision:
Ref.
Referendum on Existing Law: An Act Modernizing Firearm Laws
Firearms Regulation
A YES VOTE would keep in place the law, which increases the regulation of firearms, including ghost guns, machine guns, and assault-style weapons.
A NO VOTE would repeal this law.
If you have any input you would like us to consider, please provide it no later than close of business on Friday, April 3, copying all on this email to save me from having to forward responses back and forth.