<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>It has been barely 14 months since three of Moscow's own were gunned down, and this is what we have to look forward to.</div><div><br></div><div><b>F*CK</b>,<b> </b>Idaho legislature! The only thing missing is <b>YOU</b>.</div><div><br></div><div>Courtesy of today's (March 17, 2016) Spokesman-Review.</div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div><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%;">Idaho Senate approves bill on concealed carry permits</h1><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">BOISE – A bill that essentially makes concealed-weapons permits optional in Idaho passed the state Senate on Wednesday. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The legislation now heads to the Idaho House, and if it passes there and receives the governor’s signature, it would take effect July 1. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The bill says Idahoans age 21 or over wouldn’t need a permit to carry a concealed gun inside city limits in the state. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It specifies that people who aren’t legally qualified to carry a gun, for reasons including severe mental illness, drug use and felony convictions, couldn’t take advantage of the new law, but unlike the state’s current permit system, there are no background checks to determine that.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">nstitution does give us the right to regulate concealed carry, and we certainly still do that,” said Sen. Steve Vick, R-Dalton Gardens.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Even with the passing of this law we have many regulations on concealed carry. But this corrects, in my opinion, what was a wrong infringement on individuals’ rights and I’m proud to support this.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But Senate Minority Leader Michelle Stennett, D-Ketchum, said Idahoans don’t want the change, noting that current rules require basic gun training to have a concealed-carry permit.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Why should we not require some basic gun training?” Stennett said. “The current concealed gun laws work,” she said.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Several Idaho chiefs of police are opposed to the bill, but the Idaho Sheriffs Association voted to support it.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The bill, backed by the National Rifle Association, has 22 legislative co-sponsors, all Republicans, including House Speaker Scott Bedke and House Majority Leader Mike Moyle.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;">Senate Bill 1389, Permit-less Concealed Carry</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/Idaho_Legislature/SB1389_Concealed_Weapons.htm">http://www.MoscowCares.com/Idaho_Legislature/SB1389_Concealed_Weapons.htm</a></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">State Senator Dan Schmidt debates SB1389 on the Senate floor (March 16, 2016)</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://youtu.be/OCuirKl20Jw">http://youtu.be/OCuirKl20Jw</a></span></p></div><div>---------------------------------<br><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></body></html>