WY: Measure advances to allow armed teachers
 

Link to online article.

Wyoming House passes bill to allow guns in schools

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – The Wyoming House has advanced a bill that would permit local school boards to allow teachers and other school workers who hold concealed carry permits to carry guns at schools.

The House voted 54-to-6 on Thursday in favor of a bill sponsored by Cheyenne Republican John Eklund.

Eklund says he believes the state needs to act on the issue urgently. He says there's little if any law enforcement in many rural areas and says school workers need to be ready to protect themselves and their students.

Rep. Kendell Kroeker, an Evansville Republican, spoke against the bill. He's a co-sponsor of another pending bill that would allow anyone who holds a concealed carry permit, not only school employees, to bring guns onto school and college campuses.

:cool:

"To the people of New York"
 

No, not another Federalist paper but NY'ers should take note anyway.

LINK to the story from Friday.

"Welcome to the party, pal...!"
 

Buyer's remorse is a bitter pill ain't it Maryland?
Freakin' doorknobs. Everytime one of those quislings utters "common sense" they need to be slapped upside the head with a metro phone directory.

Put in this thread because, well, it's already here.

So here we are, 5 years later. The grabbers keep trotting out the same stuff. (Cue Einstein's comment on insanity.)

And, in the wake of Parkland, here is a draft from Oregon, a beautiful state IF (like WA and CA) you take a good boning knife to it, just along the left-hand side on the map. And apparently they've passed their "Boyfriend Loophole" bill.

It was stupid that the "boyfriend loophole" existed in the first place. People who don't understand what they are writing into law, writing laws. It's not a bad law in concept, it's the interpretation that allows for problems.

The draft you are referring to is the scary one. Though it is only in draft form now and doesn't yet have the signatures from citizens to go to the voters yet, it only requires a 1000 signatures to get on the ballot. And in Portlandia alone, they probably won't have a tough time getting the 1000. Population over 1million.
The part about registering and keeping a registry is particularly interesting. Oregon has had a law that specifically requires the state police to delete information about background checks, I think it's after a specific amount of time. Wonder if they actually have kept up on that?
The definitions they use for this are pretty ridiculous and wreak of Frankenstein's ineptitude on firearms.
IMO, I believe this one will fail to get enough votes to pass. It goes too far for that kind of support from voters. When laws start talking about registering what's not, turning in, selling or confiscations, people get worried and won't support it.

G2

Hope you're right but people have voted in draconian laws on themselves before (and even voted for Presidents) simply so they could pat their egos on the back and say they were doing something "historic."

True.
I am keeping an eye on this. I did a bit more checking and found that this was submitted by a local church leader who is known for some hardline beliefs and that may have a pretty negative impact on his attempts at anything political locally as Portlandias are notably non-believers and anti anything directly related to religion other than what gets them a day off work like Christmas.
More to come. . .
G2

Mass civil disobedience in NJ.

Politicians have shown time and again a willingness to pass feel good laws that do not actually address the mentally ill or criminals at issue.

It appears that the people of NJ have responded to the politicians.

FOIA Request Confirms Zero Standard Capacity Magazines Turned In to NJ State Police

Ammoland Inc. Posted on April 16, 2019 by John Crump

New Jersey –-(Ammoland.com)-There are an estimated one million-gun owners with standard capacity magazines (10+ rounds) in the State of New Jersey, bringing an estimated number of magazines holding more than ten rounds to around ten million. Some estimates even have this number being higher.

When New Jersey passed a law making these magazines illegal in 2018, there was a debate on whether the gun owners of the state would hand in their magazines. When the law went into effect at the end of last year, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and Attorney General Gurbir Grewal celebrated it as a victory against gun rights advocates.

AmmoLand news reached out to departments across the Garden State and the New Jersey State Police to see how many magazines were turned in for destruction. Local departments were quick to confirm that they did not receive any magazines turned in by the citizens of New Jersey. The State Police would not comment on the record on the number of magazines turned in by residents.

Off the record, State Police sources told AmmoLand no magazines were turned in. We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to get the official answer from State Police officials. Our first request went unanswered, so we sent another, then another, and so on until we finally received a response from the State Police.

SGT Kristina Pados of the New Jersey State Police responded to our FOIA request. She confirmed what our sources inside the New Jersey Police told us. The gun owners of New Jersey have surrendered no magazines.

However, she did state that local departments might have them.

AmmoLand reached out to local police departments across New Jersey and have not been able to find a single magazine turned over to the authorities. It would seem like the gun owners of New Jersey have decided to ignore the law most likely because it is unenforceable.

As previously reported New Jersey residents have been openly mocking Democrat Governor Phil Murphy on message boards and Facebook groups. This revelation feeds into the narrative that the new law was just a ploy to please the Governor's anti-gun base.

According to sources inside the New Jersey law enforcement communities, they still have not received any guidance on how to enforce the magazine ban. New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal's office still gives the evasive response of “not discussing law enforcement tactics” when pressed on why no guidance has been given to the State Police.

No law enforcement agency spoken to has charged anyone with having a standard capacity magazine. Short of going door to door there is no way of pro-actively enforcing the law. Law enforcement has not and are not planning on using this tactic.

When the law was going into effect, some agencies considered enforcing the ban as a secondary charge. Police would add on the charge of having an illegal magazine if a crime was committed with the magazine, but we have been unable to find anyone charged even under this circumstance.

Gov. Murphy has not commented on the failure of the new law. Last December the Governor's office referred us to the New Jersey Attorney General’s office. This time we shared the FOIA response from the State Police with them, but they did not return our request for comment at the time of publication.

https://www.ammoland.com/2019/04/foi...#axzz5lRzqFPAF

"Governor Phil Murphy and Attorney General Gurbir Grewal celebrated it as a victory against gun rights"


...isn't it odd that the States "Leadership" openly celebrates a victory against individual citizens rights -

So - step one - civil disobedience against oppressive governance
Step Two -STOP FUCKING RE-ELECTING THEM

Without the Second Amendment to protect them, all the other amendments are irrelevant.
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Word

And to think some actually thought it was for the children.

Background check efforts start in WI
 

The effort to make criminals of those engaging in transfer of property between 2 free persons is now launched.

That'll really fix things up with the neighborhood shootings that occur daily in Madison & Milwaukee; probably good enough that maybe Chicago ought to take notice & pass something restrictive. Oh, wait....

(Yes, it is nice to live far from the madding crowd.) :cool:

Yes, I'm sure by passing these new background checks that criminals will now obey the law.

Lol, not to mention - your social credit score just dropped a shit ton of points.

Google and the rest just keep on slurping like crazy.