Posted on 04/12/2021 6:01:06 AM PDT by marktwain
Indiana appeared to have a good chance of passing Constitutional Carry in 2021. The House passed the bill 64 – 31. A majority of Republicans in the Senate called for the bill’s passage. From therepublic.com:
Republicans easily pushed the proposal through the Indiana House, but Senate leaders have decided against taking up the bill in the final weeks of this year’s legislative session even though it was co-sponsored by 21 GOP members of the 50-person Senate.
The Indiana Senate has 39 Republicans and 11 Democrats. The opposition of key Republican leaders killed Constitutional Carry through the simple expedient of inaction.
Republican State Senator Liz Brown of Ft. Wayne killed the bill by never scheduling it for a committee hearing. From the indystar.com:
Fort Wayne Republican Sen. Liz Brown, the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee where the bill has been sitting, declined to give the bill a hearing before the deadline, effectively killing the legislation.
Instead, in the last week bills can be heard in committee, she gave a hearing to a resolution emphasizing the Indiana Senate’s commitment “to protect the constitutional right to keep and bear arms.”
Liz Brown was supported in the killing of the bill by the Republican Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray. Bray may have organized the killing of the bill. From pdclarion.com:
Specifically, Bray said he concurs with the Hoosier Gun Rights organization that the requirement in the legislation for Indiana to create a database of individuals barred from possessing a gun due to a felony or domestic violence conviction, dishonorable military discharge, or history of mental illness is a “poison pill,” since data restrictions and privacy concerns inevitably will prevent such a database from being created.
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Bush League Republicans are Assistant Democrats and do not believe in liberty.
Yep. It happened in Tennessee for YEARS because the RINOS didn’t want to pass it.
Is she from the Mike Pence School of Asshattery?
Texas seems mired in the same situation. It’s gotten further this time than before, but I highly doubt it’ll pass. Good luck next time, Indiana.
Of the 33 Republican candidates running for a state Senate seat, 2 candidates had a “D” or “F” rating from the NRA (meaning openly hostile to 2nd Amendment rights), and 16 “?” rating, meaning they did not bother to return their NRA questionnaire (indifference) or have made contradictory statements regarding gun rights.
Of the 125 Republican candidates running for a state House seat, 22 candidates were openly hostile to the concept of US citizens exercising their 2nd Amendment rights, and a whopping 54 were “indifferent” at best.
There could have been, HEAVEN FORBID, a lawsuit or something if it were signed into law...like South Dakota and every other RINO-infested state, Indiana cannot afford those expenses.
They are much worse than Democrats. They betray us by pretending to be for the Constitution hoping that we’ll elect them. They are nothing but traitorous spies.
And they wonder how the got on the purge list at election time duh.
Lez “Bo” Brown will have a slobbering excuse why it was a bad bill.
This is why voter integrity laws won’t be passed even in supposedly GOP states with heavy majorities of Republicans.
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