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Fingerprints may be requirement for handgun VA
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Fingerprints may be requirement for handgun
By HAROLD NEDD, The Virginian-Pilot
c September 4, 2002
SUFFOLK -- Residents soon could be required to get fingerprinted every time they apply for a permit to carry a concealed handgun.
The City Council is expected to vote today on the measure that a gun-shop owner triggered when he recently applied for a new five-year permit.
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Richard Harris, who's been carrying a concealed weapon since 1974, reapplied in August for his new permit.
When asked for his police-issued fingerprint card, the 57-year-old former councilman pointed out that no law in the city requires it. City officials agreed.
But as a result, the council is considering an ordinance that makes fingerprinting a condition for a gun permit.
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``I can go along with it the first time,'' said Harris, who has moved his gun shop from downtown Suffolk to the city of Ivor. ``But after that, I don't see the necessity of it. I don't like being treated like a criminal, which is what that makes me feel like.''
Last year, 190 residents applied for handgun permits, said Circuit Court Clerk Henry C. Murden.
Under the proposed ordinance, anyone applying or reapplying would be fingerprinted.
City Attorney C. Edward Roettger Jr. stated in a proposed ordinance sent to the council that the city is required by law to expunge records from a fingerprint within 21 days of completing the application. The ordinance will allow the city to gather updated information when doing criminal background checks on applicants, including those who are reapplying, Roettger wrote.
Other matters on the council's agenda include:
A public hearing on a $25 processing fee the city wants to charge anyone admitted to the Western Tidewater Regional Jail, which serves Suffolk, Franklin and Isle of Wight County. City officials said the the 2002 General Assembly passed legislation that allows them to impose the fee aimed at offsetting the costs to house, feed and provide recreation to inmates.
A vote on a resolution to support the Nov. 5 referendum on the Hampton Roads Transportation Bill. The measure calls for a one-cent-on-the-dollar increase on the sales tax, which would provide revenue to fund six road projects in Hampton Roads. The projects include a third crossing between South Hampton Roads and the Peninsula as well as improvements to the stretch on U.S. 460 between Bowers Hill and Zuni. http://www.pilotonline.com/news/nw0904gun.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
By HAROLD NEDD, The Virginian-Pilot
c September 4, 2002
SUFFOLK -- Residents soon could be required to get fingerprinted every time they apply for a permit to carry a concealed handgun.
The City Council is expected to vote today on the measure that a gun-shop owner triggered when he recently applied for a new five-year permit.
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Richard Harris, who's been carrying a concealed weapon since 1974, reapplied in August for his new permit.
When asked for his police-issued fingerprint card, the 57-year-old former councilman pointed out that no law in the city requires it. City officials agreed.
But as a result, the council is considering an ordinance that makes fingerprinting a condition for a gun permit.
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``I can go along with it the first time,'' said Harris, who has moved his gun shop from downtown Suffolk to the city of Ivor. ``But after that, I don't see the necessity of it. I don't like being treated like a criminal, which is what that makes me feel like.''
Last year, 190 residents applied for handgun permits, said Circuit Court Clerk Henry C. Murden.
Under the proposed ordinance, anyone applying or reapplying would be fingerprinted.
City Attorney C. Edward Roettger Jr. stated in a proposed ordinance sent to the council that the city is required by law to expunge records from a fingerprint within 21 days of completing the application. The ordinance will allow the city to gather updated information when doing criminal background checks on applicants, including those who are reapplying, Roettger wrote.
Other matters on the council's agenda include:
A public hearing on a $25 processing fee the city wants to charge anyone admitted to the Western Tidewater Regional Jail, which serves Suffolk, Franklin and Isle of Wight County. City officials said the the 2002 General Assembly passed legislation that allows them to impose the fee aimed at offsetting the costs to house, feed and provide recreation to inmates.
A vote on a resolution to support the Nov. 5 referendum on the Hampton Roads Transportation Bill. The measure calls for a one-cent-on-the-dollar increase on the sales tax, which would provide revenue to fund six road projects in Hampton Roads. The projects include a third crossing between South Hampton Roads and the Peninsula as well as improvements to the stretch on U.S. 460 between Bowers Hill and Zuni. http://www.pilotonline.com/news/nw0904gun.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
If you get locked up and have some money with you they just take the fee from it, or if you dont have any, you cant get out until you pay their "HOTEL" fee.
I think its a good practice, Why should the tax payers feed and house the Drunks, and disorderly.
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"It was like that when I got here".
The second admendment GUARANTEES the other nine and the Constitution!
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Virtually all laws are written in very vague manner. That way it gives a certain feeling of importance to the localities. Just look at the different interpretations of our Constitution.
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