Pistol Permit Repeal in North Carolina Stands A Chance
BY Herschel Smith
1 year, 10 months ago
Update on the pistol permit repeal in North Carolina.
A Second Amendment bill in the North Carolina State Senate has progressed through the chamber and is now headed to the State House of Representatives. The North Carolina Senate voted 29-19 across party lines on Senate Bill 41, which would repeal the state’s pistol purchase permit law on Thursday.
The bill would also allow carrying of firearms in places of worship properties that have schools as well, but it’s not going to allow guns on school property at any time.
Since 1995, anyone attending a place of worship (churches, synagogues, temples, mosques) that is legally allowed to carry a firearm could do so on that property — as long as the property owner allows it.
Things change when a place of worship also serves as a school.
Senate Bill 41 would clarify the language of state law and allow the same right to carry a firearm on a church property even if they operate a school — but there are exceptions.
“This applies only to private churches that sponsor schools and only outside the hours of the circular and extra circular activities at the school,” Paul Valone, president of Grass Roots N.C. an advocacy group that supports the bill.
Does this stand a chance of overriding a veto by goober Roy Cooper?
The bill will have to be passed through the House of Representatives and sent to Governor Roy Cooper to become law. But if he vetoes the bill, a supermajority will be required to override it. While the republicans have reached that supermajority in the Senate, they’re one seat short in the House.
What a shame it would be to lose this battle to one vote in the House. Hopefully there’s a least one vote on the democrat side who feels the pressure from his constituency. Then again, there are supposedly other means to override a veto. Also hopefully, the republicans are looking for ways under the rules of order to effect this override without that vote.
On February 20, 2023 at 12:13 pm, Frank Clarke said:
Did Vallone really write “circular”? English being such a flexible beast of a language, we all understood that he meant “curricular”…
On February 20, 2023 at 12:41 pm, Herschel Smith said:
I usually don’t come down too hard on things like that. Spell check “corrects” even when it doesn’t need to. It catches me in calculation file documents sometimes, esp. given the exotic terms I have to use in calc files. For the record, spell check also works inside the base to web sites like this one (Word Press) and does that.
But they do need to do a bit better editing.