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Post by tigercpa on Dec 7, 2017 23:31:57 GMT
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Post by tigercpa on Dec 8, 2017 12:51:46 GMT
The bill, H.R. 38, ensures that those Americans who can legally carry a concealed firearm in one state will legally be able to do so in every other state. It eliminates the confusing patchwork of state laws that have ensnared otherwise law-abiding gun owners, and have forced law enforcement to waste their precious time and resources enforcing laws that don’t do anything to reduce violent crime.
The bill also makes improvements to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, NICS. All Americans, including law-abiding gun owners, agree that violent criminals and those found mentally deficient should not have legal access to firearms. However, the system is only as good as its records, and recent events have shown that sometimes the correct information is not entered into the system. This NRA-supported bill incentivizes states and government agencies to update the NICS with legitimate records of prohibited persons. The NRA has been pushing this for nearly two decades, but has been defeated numerous times in favor of an individual's "right to privacy".
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Post by bluehen on Dec 8, 2017 15:34:00 GMT
My brother -in-law just got a concealed carry permit. He has been joking that it is much easier than getting a drivers license.
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Post by Hero on Dec 8, 2017 16:06:25 GMT
The bill, H.R. 38, ensures that those Americans who can legally carry a concealed firearm in one state will legally be able to do so in every other state. It eliminates the confusing patchwork of state laws that have ensnared otherwise law-abiding gun owners, and have forced law enforcement to waste their precious time and resources enforcing laws that don’t do anything to reduce violent crime. The bill also makes improvements to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, NICS. All Americans, including law-abiding gun owners, agree that violent criminals and those found mentally deficient should not have legal access to firearms. However, the system is only as good as its records, and recent events have shown that sometimes the correct information is not entered into the system. This NRA-supported bill incentivizes states and government agencies to update the NICS with legitimate records of prohibited persons. The NRA has been pushing this for nearly two decades, but has been defeated numerous times in favor of an individual's "right to privacy". Makes sense to me. Conflicting laws from state to state are a source of confusion. |
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Post by tigercpa on Dec 8, 2017 19:04:45 GMT
The bill, H.R. 38, ensures that those Americans who can legally carry a concealed firearm in one state will legally be able to do so in every other state. It eliminates the confusing patchwork of state laws that have ensnared otherwise law-abiding gun owners, and have forced law enforcement to waste their precious time and resources enforcing laws that don’t do anything to reduce violent crime. The bill also makes improvements to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, NICS. All Americans, including law-abiding gun owners, agree that violent criminals and those found mentally deficient should not have legal access to firearms. However, the system is only as good as its records, and recent events have shown that sometimes the correct information is not entered into the system. This NRA-supported bill incentivizes states and government agencies to update the NICS with legitimate records of prohibited persons. The NRA has been pushing this for nearly two decades, but has been defeated numerous times in favor of an individual's "right to privacy". Makes sense to me. Conflicting laws from state to state are a source of confusion. Yes, and can lead to law-abiding citizens running afoul of various state laws and then getting a felony and losing all their guns. |
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Post by tigercpa on Dec 8, 2017 19:08:01 GMT
My brother -in-law just got a concealed carry permit. He has been joking that it is much easier than getting a drivers license. I'm sure he was being facetious. I had to get fingerprinted twice, have full state, local and national criminal background checks, take a course on legal aspects of gun ownership, qualify at a range and go in front of the local circuit court judge to get my CHP here in VA. |
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Post by jameshowell on Dec 8, 2017 19:45:04 GMT
> My brother -in-law just got a concealed carry permit. He has been joking that it is much easier than getting a drivers license.
Why shouldn't it be? He has a right to own and bear; he does not have a right to drive. Plus more people are killed by vehicles than guns and more crimes are committed while driving vehicles than while carrying a gun (even on a pro rata basis).
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Post by bluehen on Dec 8, 2017 22:10:18 GMT
My brother -in-law just got a concealed carry permit. He has been joking that it is much easier than getting a drivers license. I'm sure he was being facetious. I had to get fingerprinted twice, have full state, local and national criminal background checks, take a course on legal aspects of gun ownership, qualify at a range and go in front of the local circuit court judge to get my CHP here in VA. Maryland or Virginia..or DC ? |
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Post by tigercpa on Dec 8, 2017 22:49:15 GMT
I'm sure he was being facetious. I had to get fingerprinted twice, have full state, local and national criminal background checks, take a course on legal aspects of gun ownership, qualify at a range and go in front of the local circuit court judge to get my CHP here in VA. Maryland or Virginia..or DC ? VA.
Good luck getting a permit in DC or Maryland, unless you have lots of money - they are both "may issue" jurisdictions, meaning you have to show strong evidence why you need it and then they "may issue" you a permit.
DC recently got turned over and is now a "shall issue" jurisdiction like VA - meaning unless they can find a reason you shouldn;t have a permit, they "shall issue" you one.
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