<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><div>What could possibly go wrong?</div><div><br></div><div>I can almost hear it now . . .</div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Stuff/Walmart_Special.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Stuff/Walmart_Special.mp3</a></div><div><br></div><div>Courtesy of today's (January 24, 2016) Spokesman Review.</div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><cci:dropcap class="macro" displayname="dropcap" name="dropcap" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></cci:dropcap></p><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 48px; margin: 5px 0px 20px; font-family: 'Chronicle Display A', 'Chronicle Display B', serif; line-height: 1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1, 'dlig' 1; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Eye on Boise: New Idaho concealed-gun bills proposed</h1><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><cci:dropcap class="macro" displayname="dropcap" name="dropcap" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By Betsy Z. Russell</cci:dropcap></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><cci:dropcap class="macro" displayname="dropcap" name="dropcap" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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.</cci:dropcap></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We’re going to put ’em both out there and see which dog hunts,” said Nate, R-Rexburg.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I don’t know if the gun groups are going to like it or not,” Scott said.</span></p></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>