According to the Des Moines Register, Iowa House Democrats have moved away from the state’s legislature and into an undisclosed location. The move is a protest against the GOP majority’s scheduling of two gun bills for debate today. Democratic leaders say they were misled about when the bills would be brought to the floor and so they had not filed the amendments they desired. One of the bills aims at rewriting the law on “reasonable force” used in self-defense, and the other alters the state constitution specifically to include gun rights.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=153130