Straight_Shooter
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In a surprising turn of events in the Public Safety Committee of theIowa House today, avirtually empty concealed carry "shell bill" wasvoted out of theHouse Public Safety Committee, leaving both the Sorenson "Vermont/Alaska no-permit required bill:
]http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&ga=83&hbill=HF2241]
and the NRAproposed "shall issue"bill,
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&ga=83&hbill=HF2255],
behind.Currently known as House Study Bill 721, the bill will be headed for the floor of the house to receive a bill number andto allow the bill to be "crafted" with amendments. Here is a link to the blank bill:
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&ga=83&hbill=HSB721]
Leading up tothemost shockingturn of eventsduring the committee meeting was the movement by House District 4 Representative Dwayne Alons (R)to propose the Sorenson bill, HF2241, as the content for HSB 721. Alons presentedSorenson's bill as an NRA approved bill.On a vote of 14 to 7, this action was defeated. Whatshould come as the biggest surprise to gun owners and second amendment activists in Iowa was a sellout"No" vote by District 58 "Republican" Representative Clel Baudler. Baudler, who is actually on the cosponsor list for Sorenson's bill (!?!), was joinedin his sellout of gun owners by "Republican" House District 50 Representative David Tjepkes. The remainder of the votes against the bill came from the anti-gunDemocrats on thecommittee.Although Baudler is the sponsor of the NRA bill, to find that someone who has for years been "annointed" by pro-concealed carry groups as a "pro-gun legislator," most notably byIowa Carry, Inc., for Baudler to actually vote with the anti-gun Democratsagainst the Sorenson NRA Backed bill is a sellout ofunconsionable proportions.
What this means for the future of concealed carry reformin Iowa at this point is anyone's guess . . all that can be drawn from this at this point is that there is a bill to create"An Act relating to issuance of permits to carry weapons and related matters." on the floor of the Iowa House.
In a surprising turn of events in the Public Safety Committee of theIowa House today, avirtually empty concealed carry "shell bill" wasvoted out of theHouse Public Safety Committee, leaving both the Sorenson "Vermont/Alaska no-permit required bill:
]http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&ga=83&hbill=HF2241]
and the NRAproposed "shall issue"bill,
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&ga=83&hbill=HF2255],
behind.Currently known as House Study Bill 721, the bill will be headed for the floor of the house to receive a bill number andto allow the bill to be "crafted" with amendments. Here is a link to the blank bill:
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&ga=83&hbill=HSB721]
Leading up tothemost shockingturn of eventsduring the committee meeting was the movement by House District 4 Representative Dwayne Alons (R)to propose the Sorenson bill, HF2241, as the content for HSB 721. Alons presentedSorenson's bill as an NRA approved bill.On a vote of 14 to 7, this action was defeated. Whatshould come as the biggest surprise to gun owners and second amendment activists in Iowa was a sellout"No" vote by District 58 "Republican" Representative Clel Baudler. Baudler, who is actually on the cosponsor list for Sorenson's bill (!?!), was joinedin his sellout of gun owners by "Republican" House District 50 Representative David Tjepkes. The remainder of the votes against the bill came from the anti-gunDemocrats on thecommittee.Although Baudler is the sponsor of the NRA bill, to find that someone who has for years been "annointed" by pro-concealed carry groups as a "pro-gun legislator," most notably byIowa Carry, Inc., for Baudler to actually vote with the anti-gun Democratsagainst the Sorenson NRA Backed bill is a sellout ofunconsionable proportions.
What this means for the future of concealed carry reformin Iowa at this point is anyone's guess . . all that can be drawn from this at this point is that there is a bill to create"An Act relating to issuance of permits to carry weapons and related matters." on the floor of the Iowa House.