North Carolina House Approves Constitutional Carry
BY Herschel Smith
7 years, 5 months ago
The North Carolina House of Representatives approved a bill Thursday that would allow people to carry concealed weapons without a permit.
The North Carolina Association of Police Chiefs is against House Bill 746, which a person can carry a concealed gun, but would allow people to carry without a permit and no formal training, which is required now.
The bill would allow citizens age 18 and older, who legally own a gun, to carry it concealed without a permit, anywhere they can carry it openly.
It now will head to the Senate.
“Most people dying are being killed with guns,” said Judy Williams, the leader of the organization Mothers Of Murdered Offspring. She is working to combat rising violent crime in Charlotte.
Williams is worried the bill, if passed, will lead to more violence.
Most people being shot are young inner city blacks who are dying due to cultural and moral problems, unrelated to whether concealed carry requires a permit to be legal.
So Ms. Williams, what makes you think that if a young gang member decides to kill someone else, he is going to hesitate and reconsider his decision because concealed carry isn’t legal for him?
As for Roy Cooper, I seriously doubt that he will sign the bill into law. Since the county Sheriffs and city and county police are separated in function and organization, and since it is the CLEOs and their employees who get the money, and since gun purchase permitting requires CLEO signoff, there is no incentive for the police to go along with any recognition of liberties and rights.
On June 10, 2017 at 5:50 pm, Keith W. Bowles said:
I’m a former CCW Instructor in NC. I do NOT concur with the Constitutional Carry Law passed by the NC House. 18 years of age is entirely to young for Constitutional Carry, and I am not convinced that State Residents with previous CRiMINAL records is restrictive enough as written.
CCW is serious business: The State should FIRST survey Instructors and County LEOs for comment and consider their experience as to the language of this House Bill.
On June 10, 2017 at 11:27 pm, Herschel Smith said:
I don’t believe you. It’s called CHP in North Carolina, and you wouldn’t have made that mistake if you were a former CHP instructor (not CCW instructor).