North Carolina – Showing The Rest Of The States How To Do It Wrong
BY Herschel Smith1 year, 6 months ago
North Carolina lawmakers pulled back Wednesday from a bill that would let people carry concealed guns without a permit.
The measure faces an uphill battle now, with the top Senate Republican saying Wednesday that he doesn’t think it’s time to take up the issue. In the House of Representatives, lawmakers punted on a scheduled vote, indicating the bill didn’t have enough support to pass the chamber.
House Bill 189 would let any legal gun owner conceal that gun. Right now gun owners need a concealed carry permit to do that, which is typically issued by their local sheriff. That process requires a background check, proficiency test and a test on the rules for self defense and where guns are allowed.
Those tests, and the permits themselves, would be optional under the bill.
The bill moved through a pair of committees Tuesday and seemed primed to pass the House. But enough Republican lawmakers had misgivings to at least delay the measure, and leadership dropped it from Wednesday’s House floor calendar. Tomorrow brings a legislative deadline that there are ways around but which generally requires bills to pass at least one chamber to stay alive.
Also Wednesday, Senate Republican Leader Phil Berger indicated the bill would not move through his chamber this session. Berger, R-Rockingham, said Senate Republicans hadn’t discussed the bill, but that the General Assembly already passed a substantial gun bill this year, ending the state’s pistol permit system.
That system required people to get a permit from their sheriff to purchase a handgun, and Republicans lawmakers scrapped (editorial comment – passed?) it over Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto.
This is the good part – listen to his excuse.
“We’ve done away with the pistol purchase permit, which was the No. 1 goal of many of the gun rights groups for a long period of time,” Berger said Wednesday. “I just don’t know if there’s a need for us to delve into additional issues dealing with guns and people’s 2nd Amendment rights.”
“People have a right to protect themselves utilizing weapons, and law abiding citizens can be trusted to handle those rights responsibly,” Berger said. “I just don’t know that the timing is right for us, at this time, to move forward with additional gun legislation.”
We’ve let rights dribble out to the people this year, so what’s the problem with ignoring the rest of it?
The N.C. Sheriffs Association opposed the bill which I’m certain didn’t help. But here is the rest of the story you weren’t told above.
Isn’t that sweet. “The NRA will never apologize for refusing to compromise on an issue as critical as constitutional carry.”
Okay, how about the NFA, the GCA, the Hughes Amendment, the Bump Stock Ban, Red Flag Laws, the initial AWB, and I could go on. Do you apologize for those abominations?
Honestly, I see the virtue of waiting to get this right, but I would have preferred that we go ahead and get some of this done now and correct it later after lawmakers saw that blood doesn’t really run in the streets.
But the most telling thing here are the two responses, first Berger’s, and then the NRA’s. And Paul is right that the NRA will then swoop in to take credit for it all if it does finally pass after having ignored it the whole time.
What a despicable organization.
On May 5, 2023 at 6:57 am, redclay7 said:
I agree that the NRA is an empty shell, a spent cartridge, if you will, that may still hold the aroma of spent gunpowder, but doesn’t fulfill the role it was created for anymore. Valone’s statement that the way to punish the NRA for its transgressions/loss of focus is through its pocketbook, which I hear is pretty thin of late…kudos to GRNC and its work. I witnessed Paul Valone in court in Wake Co. years ago when there was a push to allow concealed carry during the NC State Fair in Raleigh. He is fearless. One other point – is it possible the Repubs are saving their energy/political capital for the coming veto override fight of the just passed abortion limit bill? best, redclay7
On May 5, 2023 at 9:35 am, Frank Clarke said:
Not Relevant Anymore…
On May 6, 2023 at 11:18 am, J said:
“We’ve done away with the pistol purchase permit, which was the No. 1 goal of many of the gun rights groups for a long period of time,” Berger said Wednesday. “I just don’t know if there’s a need for us to delve into additional issues dealing with guns and people’s 2nd Amendment rights.”
Same Shit Different Day. Mary Fallon, ex-governor (thank you God) of Oklahoma pulled a similar stunt just beore leaving office. I believe that there were apprx 19 bills waiting for her signature, one was for Constitutional carry. She waited until the legislators session had retired and then vetoed the bill. She said “we” already had a method of carrying…a $200 permit. Rumor has it, She was carrying on with a state trooper who was a personal guard.
Slimey RINO political whore, just like the rest of Oklahomas finest RINOs.