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Firearms in Locked Vehicles is back for 2010.
Senate Bill 0025
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State Senator Johnny Nugent has submitted a bill similar to the one he introduced last year. This bill would allow anyone who can legally possess and carry a firearm to keep a firearm locked in his vehicle. Businesses and private persons could not prohibit this. There are a exceptions written into the bill for a few school-type facilities (schools, preschools, colleges), prisons, and anywhere prohibited by federal law.
This bill would allow you to keep a gun in your car while parked at your place of employment, even if your employer does not allow you to carry while working.
The bill has been assigned to the Committee on Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters. The members of that committee are M. Young R.M., Bray, Delph, Head, Waterman, Waltz, Hume R.M.M., Lanane, Tallian, Taylor.
That committee passed a similar bill last year (actually the bill last year had fewer exceptions and thus was a "harder" bill to pass) and should pass it again this year. The senate is also almost certain to pass it as well.
The challenge will come, again, in the House. Last year House Speaker Pat Bauer sent the bill to a committee that he was sure would kill it. I have every reason to expect he will do the same this year and that the bill will die in house committee. Once the bill passes out of the senate and is assigned to a house committee, we will post the names of the members of that committee so that you can tell them how you feel.
My guess is that it will die in house committee regardless of how much pressure we bring. It will die every year, as will every pro-gun measure, until we replace Pat Bauer as the house speaker. The easiest way to do that is to vote enough Republican representatives into office that the Rs pick the speaker instead of the Ds. At that point, we will be able to pass almost gun legislation that we want. If you have a Democrat for a state rep, consider volunteering to help their Republican opponent get elected in 2010. That is probably the best thing you could do to see this bill, and similar ones, get passed during the next few years.
Senate Bill 0025
Click "Latest Printing" to see the bill's current form.
State Senator Johnny Nugent has submitted a bill similar to the one he introduced last year. This bill would allow anyone who can legally possess and carry a firearm to keep a firearm locked in his vehicle. Businesses and private persons could not prohibit this. There are a exceptions written into the bill for a few school-type facilities (schools, preschools, colleges), prisons, and anywhere prohibited by federal law.
This bill would allow you to keep a gun in your car while parked at your place of employment, even if your employer does not allow you to carry while working.
The bill has been assigned to the Committee on Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters. The members of that committee are M. Young R.M., Bray, Delph, Head, Waterman, Waltz, Hume R.M.M., Lanane, Tallian, Taylor.
That committee passed a similar bill last year (actually the bill last year had fewer exceptions and thus was a "harder" bill to pass) and should pass it again this year. The senate is also almost certain to pass it as well.
The challenge will come, again, in the House. Last year House Speaker Pat Bauer sent the bill to a committee that he was sure would kill it. I have every reason to expect he will do the same this year and that the bill will die in house committee. Once the bill passes out of the senate and is assigned to a house committee, we will post the names of the members of that committee so that you can tell them how you feel.
My guess is that it will die in house committee regardless of how much pressure we bring. It will die every year, as will every pro-gun measure, until we replace Pat Bauer as the house speaker. The easiest way to do that is to vote enough Republican representatives into office that the Rs pick the speaker instead of the Ds. At that point, we will be able to pass almost gun legislation that we want. If you have a Democrat for a state rep, consider volunteering to help their Republican opponent get elected in 2010. That is probably the best thing you could do to see this bill, and similar ones, get passed during the next few years.
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And why should a sign, or lack thereof, change whom the guilty party is?
