Posted on 05/08/2019 12:33:19 PM PDT by marktwain
The Indiana legislature has passed, and Governor Eric Holcomb signed HB 1284. The bill reforms several areas of Indiana gun law.
HB 1284 passed the House, 80-13 on 11 February, 2019. It passed the Senate, 47-7 on 8 April, 2019. HB 1284 was signed by Governor Holcolmb on 26 April, 2019.
Voter registration forms will now be available with applications for carry permits, by designating the Indiana State Police, Sheriff's offices, and municipal law enforcement agency offices, as voter registration offices.
The legislation creates immunity from civil action when justifiable self defense or defense of others is successfully raised. Those who were justified in self defense are immune from civil suit by a person or person's estate if who was attempting to commit a forcible felony or was attempting to cause, or causing, unlawful serious bodily injury to another person at the time the justified use of force occurred.
The legislation requires a court to award, in certain instances, reasonable costs and attorney's fees to the defendant, when the justifiable force defense is raised and is successful.
The legislation increases the term of handgun and carry licenses from four to five years. Five years is becoming the de facto national standard.
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I think this more than makes up for the 1897 Indiana law making pi = 3.
Ok, you can own a gun without a permit and keep it on your property but to take it anywhere off your property you have to have a permit? That seems highly restrictive. Also, Is there a different permit for open carry and concealed carry? I may have missed it in reading the law.
In Indiana, you have to have a permit to carry openly or concealed, on your person.
If not on your person, the handgun can be in a vehicle if it is cased and unloaded.
I a vehicle it also has to be out of reach so the best bet is transporting it in the trunk if you don’t have a carry permit.
Thank you. I remember back before I left for the Army in the early 70’s there wasn’t a requirement to have a license to carry a rifle or pistol in one’s vehicle to go hunting or target practice. I wonder when Indiana ‘went socialist’ with the carry license (rhetorical).
I’m guessing, since the article mentioned handguns, that a carry permit is NOT required for rifles and shotguns.
Perhaps I’m incorrect about this but I’m originally from Indiana and I thought you had to have a permit in Indiana for a pistol even if you are hauling it locked up in the trunk of your car.
Nope, Indiana law changed in this regard several years ago. You can transport without a permit.
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