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Legislative updates(OH,NY,DE,AZ)
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Ohio Legislative Update
HB 493, a measure to allow Sunday hunting, has been approved by both the Senate and the House and awaits Governor Bob Taft's (R) signature. Contact Governor Taft at (614) 466-3555 and encourage him to sign this bill enabling hunters to participate in the hunting tradition on Sundays.
http://www.nraila.org/LegislativeUpdate.asp?FormMode=Detail&ID=379
New York Legislative Update
Senator Jim Seward (R-50) has introduced S 2458, which would protect firearm manufacturers from reckless lawsuits seeking to hold the industry responsible for the criminal misuse of firearms, as well as S 7088, which would prohibit counties and other municipalities from regulating hunting, trapping, or fishing. Both measures have been referred to, and await action in, the Senate Judiciary Committee. Contact members of the committee TODAY to voice your strong support for S 2458 and S 7088! For a list of committee members' names and phone numbers, please contact NRA Grassroots at (800) 392-8683.
http://www.nraila.org/LegislativeUpdate.asp?FormMode=Detail&ID=378
Delaware Legislative Update
On Tuesday, May 14, the Delaware Senate will consider SB 190. This legislation would mandate that all handguns sold or transferred by a licensed gun dealer be accompanied by a trigger-locking device. It would also ban the sale or transfer of all handguns that are not equipped with a so-called "integrated mechanical safety device" after January 1, 2003. This bill would outlaw the sale of virtually ALL existing models of handguns on the market today. Call your Senator at (302) 744-4286 and urge him to oppose SB 190.
http://www.nraila.org/LegislativeUpdate.asp?FormMode=Detail&ID=377
Arizona Legislative Update
SB 1008, Arizona's Range Protection bill, has been passed out of the House of Representatives and awaits Senate concurrence. Please contact your Senator and urge him to support SB 1008. You can call your Senator at (800) 352-8404, or e-mail using the "Write Your Reps" feature?.
HB 2329, the "Crime Gun Interdiction" bill, is awaiting consideration in the Senate. This legislation is aimed at law-abiding gun owners, while doing nothing to target violent criminals. Continue to call your State Senator and your two Representatives at (800) 352-8404, and tell them to vote "NO" on the gun control amendment to HB 2329. For additional contact information, use the "Write Your Reps" tool.
http://www.nraila.org/LegislativeUpdate.asp?FormMode=Detail&ID=376
"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
HB 493, a measure to allow Sunday hunting, has been approved by both the Senate and the House and awaits Governor Bob Taft's (R) signature. Contact Governor Taft at (614) 466-3555 and encourage him to sign this bill enabling hunters to participate in the hunting tradition on Sundays.
http://www.nraila.org/LegislativeUpdate.asp?FormMode=Detail&ID=379
New York Legislative Update
Senator Jim Seward (R-50) has introduced S 2458, which would protect firearm manufacturers from reckless lawsuits seeking to hold the industry responsible for the criminal misuse of firearms, as well as S 7088, which would prohibit counties and other municipalities from regulating hunting, trapping, or fishing. Both measures have been referred to, and await action in, the Senate Judiciary Committee. Contact members of the committee TODAY to voice your strong support for S 2458 and S 7088! For a list of committee members' names and phone numbers, please contact NRA Grassroots at (800) 392-8683.
http://www.nraila.org/LegislativeUpdate.asp?FormMode=Detail&ID=378
Delaware Legislative Update
On Tuesday, May 14, the Delaware Senate will consider SB 190. This legislation would mandate that all handguns sold or transferred by a licensed gun dealer be accompanied by a trigger-locking device. It would also ban the sale or transfer of all handguns that are not equipped with a so-called "integrated mechanical safety device" after January 1, 2003. This bill would outlaw the sale of virtually ALL existing models of handguns on the market today. Call your Senator at (302) 744-4286 and urge him to oppose SB 190.
http://www.nraila.org/LegislativeUpdate.asp?FormMode=Detail&ID=377
Arizona Legislative Update
SB 1008, Arizona's Range Protection bill, has been passed out of the House of Representatives and awaits Senate concurrence. Please contact your Senator and urge him to support SB 1008. You can call your Senator at (800) 352-8404, or e-mail using the "Write Your Reps" feature?.
HB 2329, the "Crime Gun Interdiction" bill, is awaiting consideration in the Senate. This legislation is aimed at law-abiding gun owners, while doing nothing to target violent criminals. Continue to call your State Senator and your two Representatives at (800) 352-8404, and tell them to vote "NO" on the gun control amendment to HB 2329. For additional contact information, use the "Write Your Reps" tool.
http://www.nraila.org/LegislativeUpdate.asp?FormMode=Detail&ID=376
"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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Blitz pushes concealed-carry bill
By Julia C. Martinez
Denver Post Capitol Bureau
Sunday, May 05, 2002 - With the legislature's most controversial gun bill slipping from their sights, pro-gun groups unleashed a new phone and e-mail campaign this weekend in a last-ditch effort to save the measure.
The effort began Friday after it became apparent that a "shall-issue" concealed-handgun permit bill was about to become history. Until then, the gun lobby seemed relatively confident that its side would prevail.
One e-mail sent to a lawmaker predicted that the bill was dead. Another blamed the media for "taking down" House Bill 1410. Still another urged proponents to "turn up the heat" on members of the Senate Appropriations Committee in an 11th-hour effort to save the bill.
Word spread like wildfire on the Senate floor that the National Rifle Association was mounting a campaign to defeat Senate President Stan Matsunaka in his Democratic bid for the 4th Congressional District because he failed to ensure the bill's passage after signing on as a co-sponsor.
But NRA spokeswoman Mary Anne Bradfield denied that was true.
"We don't threaten anybody," Bradfield said. "We make campaign decisions after everything else based on a totality of information, not just one thing."
The conflict over guns, which had been polite all session, erupted into all-out war Friday morning, hours before a committee vote was scheduled.
Sen. Peggy Reeves, the Appropriations Committee chairwoman, gave bill sponsor Sen. Ken Chlouber, R-Leadville, a courtesy heads-up that she would vote "no" on the bill. The announcement startled Chlouber, who minutes earlier had predicted that HB 1410 would pass the committee with the Fort Collins Democrat's support and move to the Senate floor, where its passage was virtually assured.
Reeves had been viewed as the key vote on the 10-member committee. Five members favor the bill. Four oppose it, and Reeves, who had not tipped her hand until Friday, would make it five, tying the vote and tabling the measure in the committee.
Chlouber, who has fought for a decade to get such a bill passed, quickly asked Reeves to delay the vote until Monday, then stormed out of the Senate chamber.
With three days remaining in the 2002 legislative session, the gun bill now joins budget, school finance and transportation on the list of major issues requiring legislative action before Wednesday's midnight deadline.
Chlouber said he stalled the measure to confer with Matsunaka, who was on his way back from Washington, D.C.
"He made a commitment to get it to the Senate floor," Chlouber said. "It's his obligation to get the votes in the committee. He needs to help me lobby for votes for the bill. I can't do it alone."
But Matsunaka, speaking from Washington, said he never promised to deliver votes. "That's not true. I told him I would give it a different committee assignment, which I did," he said referring to the fact that he initially assigned the bill to the Agriculture Committee, which passed it, rather than the Judiciary Committee, which would have killed it.
"They have to work their own bills. Good grief," Matsunaka said.
Reeves said she has received hundreds of phone calls, letters and e-mails touting and opposing the bill and that she made up her own mind.
"I don't think anybody would ever promise someone else's vote," she said. "Each of us has to vote our own conscience. That's what Sen. Matsunaka would expect of any one of us."
Matsunaka is one of four Senate Democrats who signed on to co-sponsor what has been an exclusively Republican bill, and many believed that with his name on it, he could muster enough Democratic support to pass it.
The Senate Appropriations Committee will take up the bill Monday if time permits.
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%7E61%7E591047%7E,00.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