Posted on 12/25/2018 8:27:49 AM PST by marktwain
The House Majority Leader in South Dakota has sponsored a bill to allow concealed carry in the South Dakota Capitol and any county courthouse, with an enhanced pistol permit.
It is part of a movement to restore the exercise of the Second Amendment to mainstream status. According to a study done at the Crime Prevention Research Center in 2017, 16 state capitols have arrangements for the legal carry of firearms in the Capitol, generally for those who have a concealed carry permit. Six states only allow legislators and/or staff to legally carry.
The 16 states are: Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin.
The six states that restrict carry to legislators and staff are: Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, Missouri, Nevada, and Virginia
Representative Lee Qualm, the Majority Leader in South Dakota, has filed bill HB1129. A companion bill, SB 77, has been filed in the Senate.
No texts exist for either bill at present. It is expected they will be very similar, if not identical to the bill vetoed by Governor Daugaard in 2017.
In 2017, HB 1156 was passed 46-20 in the House. It passed the Senate but was vetoed by Governor Daugaard. Here are the relevant changes that bill would have enacted. From HB 1156 (2017) :
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
Restoration of Second Amendment rights continues, incrementally.
Hopefully Miss Kristy will sign it
Uh, doesn’t appear to fall into the “equal treatment” part. LOL! But I did read, maybe from you, that Ms. Kristy may do the constitutional carry thing.
I think she will.
But we won’t know for at least a month.
Congrats on your FR birthday. You are an old timer here.
One of the many reasons I am proud to live here.
Many years ago my dad coined a phrase - “South Dakota; where real Americans still abound!”
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