Discussion: House Approves NRA-Backed GOP Bill Nationalizing Concealed Carry Permits

And leave your 0.50 Browning at home in the sticks, too. Still illegal in CA, hicks.

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so will this be OK for the kids in the neighborhood?

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THAT is the question we need to be asking over and over and over again . . . . because the gun-loving GOP and NRA members have no good explanation for why they should be exempt from unlimited carry laws.

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Gosh Wagonpile, It makes me feel a WHOLE LOT safer knowing that you’re packing heat.

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This is like the House’s multiple votes to repeal (but not replace) Obamacare–they know it will never pass the Senate.

But if it should, it’s clearly unconstitutional.

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That’s already been proposed, and backed by the NRA.

Maybe Trump’s goal is to start a civil war.

OK? It’ll be mandatory! Oh boy!

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Joke all you want, but I’ll be buying a silencer as soon as they’re legal (not for my carry pistol, of course, but for the one in my nightstand). Being the victim of a home invasion shouldn’t mean having to sacrifice my hearing.

(And try not to worry—if you can refrain from forcing your way into my house while my wife and I are sleeping, I promise you’ll never lay eyes on it.)

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So many frightening headlines this week. I am appalled by this one. But then again. Everything the republicans do is the stuff of nightmares.

Funny thing, this “states’ rights” business usually seems to work in one direction only. Back before the Civil War, some of the Southern slaveholding interests tried really hard to force Northern “free” states to be obliged to enforce their laws – which is to say, to run down, apprehend, and return into slavery any escaped, uh, property.

The cry of “states’ rights” has always and only ever been cover to enforce reactionary agendas.

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If this bill becomes law, how long before a red state grants automatic, lifetime, CCW licenses to all of its citizens at some age (possibly even at birth)? They’d love to stick it to the blue states who try to show a little sense about forcing people to live in the presence of so many firearms.

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I’m confused. So if a state has a law against concealed carry, then a person who lives there would be breaking the law but someone who traveled there from another state that allowed concealed carry would not? How exactly does this work? But why should I care, I live in Arizona where you can carry any damned thing you want just about anywhere you please and you don’t need a permit to carry a concealed weapon.

It cracks me up how in their efforts to prove how pro gun they are they just keep ratcheting up the stakes. “I’ll see your concealed carry and raise you with legal bazookas” kind of thing. The banality of evil has become a daily routine.
Remember when Columbine was an almost unspeakable horror, then Sandy Hook left us gasping in disbelief. That’s just Tuesday now, folks.

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LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - A toddler clings to life 24 hours after he accidentally shot himself in the head.

A two-year-old got hold of a gun in his parents car Monday in the parking lot of 44 Auto Mart off Hurstbourne Parkway.

Police said the boy’s father was looking at cars at the used car lot. The mother and another child were also inside the car at the time the gun went off.

…LMPD says the gun belonged to a parent and they did have a carry conceal permit.

D’Shawn Johnson, WAVE 3 News Safety and Security expert, says it’s rare in situations like this that the gun owner will face charges.

“It’s very rare that it does happen, unless there is something that is really a gross negligence on the part of the parent or caregiver,” Johnson said. “Some of the factors are - Is the weapon legal? Was it left in an area to where they felt that youth could get to it extremely easily?”

4-year-old boy shot while sleeping in bed at Leesburg home
Herbert James, boy’s father, arrested

…Bellina told authorities that the two had a few drinks before James asked for a ride home.

“I know that he had a concealed weapons permit, right and he just asked me for a ride home. I drove him home. He asked me if I wanted to see it and I was like, yeah, ‘I’ll take a look at it’ and when he pulled it out of the bag he cocked it. And I said, ‘Why did you cock it?’ and the next thing I know ‘bang bang’ through the windshield,” Bellina said.

…Bellina told News 6 he didn’t think James intentionally fired his gun.

“I think he was having a couple drinks and maybe just finger slipped. And I think when he went inside he was trying to put it away and the gun was faulty and it went off again in the house. From what I understand," Bellina said.

Pennsylvania man turns himself in, pleads not guilty in Galleria Mall shooting

The 27-year-old man who allegedly discharged a single shot from a legal firearm inside the Galleria Mall, injuring a mother, pleaded not guilty Wednesday.

…Michael Perez-Rodriguez, of Forest City, Pennsylvania was hit with a felony charge of reckless endangerment and two misdemeanors of assault. Perez-Rodriguez appears to have fled the mall with this wife and two children after the gun went off. He later turned himself into Monticello Police. When he appeared in court Wednesday, the judge noted how he changed his appearance by shaving his beard before he surrendered to police. He was then remanded on $2,500 cash bail or $5,000 bond.

The Orange County District Attorney David Hoovler did field questions from the press on why more serious charges or higher bail was not applied in this case.

“I don’t know what seems low about it,” said Hoovler. "That individual was allowed to carry this gun. And because of that, no criminal possession of a weapon charge can be brought in this case.”

Perez-Rodriguez grew up in the Fallsburg area. He does have a New York and Pennsylvania firearm permit and a concealed carry permit. He has no prior criminal record.

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Yeah, that’s it. It was the gun’s fault!

Certainly not at NRA national conventions.

Should be, it’s right there in the Constitution, Art. I, sect. 8, graphs 14, 15, and 16.

Please; it’s proper name is the Feudalist Society.

Nobody ever got fooled thinking that GOP politicians had the physical courage to go up against an armed organization.

I have not seen any mention of the chance for this passing the Senate, which is a pretty vital issue. This House is always certain to pass symbolic legislation meant to feed the base and keep the money flowing. I doubt this stands a chancel of passing the Senate but please let us know so people don’t get all emotionally wrapped up in the issue and become even moreso liberal versions of Dittoheads.

That said, the purpose of this is to make it simple for militiamen to travel the country with their guns.

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