More than 95,000 people sign petition protesting sweeping firearms bill in Mass.

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A week-long signature gathering effort piled up on Beacon Hill this week. More than 95,000 names were collected by the Civil Rights Coalition protesting a…

A week-long signature gathering effort piled up on Beacon Hill this week. More than 95,000 names were collected by the Civil Rights Coalition protesting a sweeping firearms bill signed into law and enacted with an emergency preamble by Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey.

“This was a grassroots effort by the citizens of the Commonwealth to once again, for the second time, shut this down,” said Jim Wallace with Gun Owners Action League.“We have been working with national partners for almost a year to divvy things up into chunks by subject matter and then bring it to federal court,” said Wallace.

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