[Vision2020] As Idaho considers loosening gun-carry limits . . .

[Tom Hansen]

What could possibly go wrong?

I can almost hear it now . . .
http://www.tomandrodna.com/Stuff/Walmart_Special.mp3

Courtesy of today's (January 24, 2016) Spokesman Review.

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Eye on Boise: New Idaho concealed-gun bills proposed
By Betsy Z. Russell

Reps. Heather Scott and Ron Nate have released two alternate drafts of legislation to allow any legal gun owner in Idaho to carry concealed guns without a permit.

“We’re going to put ’em both out there and see which dog hunts,” said Nate, R-Rexburg.

The first version of the “constitution carry” bill just adds this line to the list of places where concealed-weapon permit rules don’t apply: “Outside the confines of any building within city limits.” Under a 2015 law, Idaho already allows people to carry concealed guns without a permit outside city limits; that change was made as part of a revamp of the state’s gun laws, which previously exempted people from concealed-weapon permit requirements while they were outdoors hunting, fishing or engaging in other such pursuits.

The second version of Scott and Nate’s bill, unveiled late last week, is considerably more extensive. It “includes agreed upon language with the Idaho Sheriff’s Association and others,” the two freshman lawmakers said in a statement. That draft bill says any legal gun owner age 21 or older can carry a concealed gun without a permit in Idaho, but adds a list of exceptions for people charged with certain crimes, unlawfully using drugs, adjudicated as mentally ill, subject to protection orders and more.

Both versions of the bill would leave Idaho’s concealed weapon permit laws on the books; they’d just become optional. The two lawmakers said people who want to get concealed gun permits because they’re recognized in other states under reciprocity agreements still could.

“I don’t know if the gun groups are going to like it or not,” Scott said.

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Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"There's room at the top they are telling you still.
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,
If you want to be like the folks on the hill."

- John Lennon
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