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Va. Fingerprints required for handgun?
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Suffolk puts off vote on new ID for gun permits
By HAROLD NEDD, The Virginian-Pilot
c September 5, 2002
SUFFOLK -- The City Council on Wednesday delayed voting on a requirement that residents be fingerprinted every time they apply for a permit to carry a concealed handgun.
In Suffolk, a handgun permit is good for five years. Under the proposed regulation, anyone applying or reapplying would be fingerprinted. State law leaves it up to cities to require fingerprints, which must be expunged from records within 21 days of completing the application.
Council member Linda T. Johnson, who called the measure unnecessary, led the effort to delay a vote until the Sept. 18 meeting to give the city staff time to research what kind of criminal background check can be done on an applicant without the fingerprints.
In other business, the council:
Postponed until its next meeting a decision on whether to charge a $25 fee to anyone admitted to the Western Tidewater Regional Jail, which serves Suffolk, Franklin and Isle of Wight County. The delay stemmed from questions Vice Mayor Leroy Bennett had about how the city would deal with inmates who can't pay the fee proposed to help offset costs to house, feed and provide recreation to prisoners.
Declared Sept. 11 as ``Patriot Day'' in Suffolk. Residents are being asked on Wednesday to observe a moment of silence for the Americans killed in the terrorist attacks. A citywide commemoration service with Suffolk's public safety departments is planned for noon Wednesday at the West End Baptist Church near the central business district downtown.
Reach Harold Nedd at hnedd@pilotonline.com or 222-5558.
http://www.pilotonline.com/news/nw0905pri.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 5, 2002
SUFFOLK -- The City Council on Wednesday delayed voting on a requirement that residents be fingerprinted every time they apply for a permit to carry a concealed handgun.
In Suffolk, a handgun permit is good for five years. Under the proposed regulation, anyone applying or reapplying would be fingerprinted. State law leaves it up to cities to require fingerprints, which must be expunged from records within 21 days of completing the application.
Council member Linda T. Johnson, who called the measure unnecessary, led the effort to delay a vote until the Sept. 18 meeting to give the city staff time to research what kind of criminal background check can be done on an applicant without the fingerprints.
In other business, the council:
Postponed until its next meeting a decision on whether to charge a $25 fee to anyone admitted to the Western Tidewater Regional Jail, which serves Suffolk, Franklin and Isle of Wight County. The delay stemmed from questions Vice Mayor Leroy Bennett had about how the city would deal with inmates who can't pay the fee proposed to help offset costs to house, feed and provide recreation to prisoners.
Declared Sept. 11 as ``Patriot Day'' in Suffolk. Residents are being asked on Wednesday to observe a moment of silence for the Americans killed in the terrorist attacks. A citywide commemoration service with Suffolk's public safety departments is planned for noon Wednesday at the West End Baptist Church near the central business district downtown.
Reach Harold Nedd at hnedd@pilotonline.com or 222-5558.
http://www.pilotonline.com/news/nw0905pri.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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