The first two federal court actions, which we spent nearly a hundred thousand dollars to prepare, challenging training mandates and the long gun roster, were rendered moot by the delays the Legislature put in place. Only after preparing the cases did the state announce that it would be delaying the implementation of those laws by 18 months.

GOAL is now directly and indirectly involved in ten active cases, with more coming; with a host of national and local partners. These cases include: Assault Style Firearms, Suitability, Licensing Delays, and more. Please check out www.GOAL.org/legal for a full list of what we have been working on.

When we started down this path, we warned our membership that it would be a tremendously expensive endeavor that would likely take years to see any benefits. Each piece of Chapter 135 would have to be challenged individually based on what standing we could assert and the state would fight us at every step. In order to challenge a single piece of Chapter 135 we will first have to exhaust any state-level remedies that exist and then work our way through the lower Federal Courts. Getting to the Supreme Court of the United States, if they are even inclined to hear the case, most often it takes a minimum two to three years and $500,000 or more. There is no getting around what the costs are. This is what the state government counts on as the try to delay and outspend us on every piece.

Since our initial litigation launch in 2024, GOAL has spent over $400,000 on legal fees to a host of different attorneys on the pieces we have attacked so far. This is why we have been very selective on our challenges and judicious about which portions of the law we have challenged and the timing. This is only the beginning.

GOAL is dedicated to this fight, but we must be able to raise the funds to maintain it. Please donate and encourage others, especially those who have not yet donated, to get in the fight. Only together can we see this fight through to restoring freedom in Massachusetts.