CCW Rolls On - On
CCW Rolls On - On top of last week's news that Ohio's Concealed Carry reform law is progressing nicely (albeit possibly doomed to a veto that the legislature may not opt to override), Colorado's law should be moving to the Governor (possibly after one more trip to the Senate), according to Coyote at the Dog Show.
How long until Minnesota joins them?
Sigh.
The problem, of course, is getting through the DFL-controlled Senate. The DFL wants to be listed as the author of every bill going through the Senate - and Senator Pat Parisau (GOP, Farmington) is understandably reticent about letting a DFLer take over (and potentially hijack) the bill she's shepherded through the legislature this past seven years.
Worse? The DFL has floated its own, terrible, version of a concealed carry reform bill. A group of anti-gun DFL legislators have written a bill that is so bad, it could only count as a "poison pill" bill. Sen. Jim Vickerman is listed as the author - the only author (very unusual). The reason, of course, is that he's retiring after this term - and any legislator attaching his/her name to this piece of bilge will be getting a solid F- from every gun rights organizations in the next round of elections.
To quote a Concealed Carry Reform Now bulletin on the bill:
the bill is about 25% MPPA, 25% the worst of Texas law, 25% the worst of Michigan law, and 25% Sen. Sheila Kiscaden. The legislation is full of internal conflicts and contradictions, contains items that even MN law enforcement don’t want, is, once you start to read the fine print, discretionary, and requires applicants to relinquish their constitutional rights for the opportunity to commit a Felony just by standing in the wrong place!
We all knew that the DFL-controlled Senate would pull out the stops in attacking the Personal Protection Act, and the very idea of concealed carry reform. We'll still probably come out of this session with a concealed carry reform law - but nobody said it'd be easy.
Posted by Mitch at
March 17, 2003 07:34 AM
