SB1132 Good News LEOSA Revised!
My former employer Federal Prison in Oxford Wisconsin refused to train us and local law enforcement won't provide training either, so we have to wait until the improvment act is passed before I can get a permit to cc
I was just thinking about this this morning. With the passage of SB1132 and the President making it law there is now a way to get your "Q Card". I plan on talking to my boss this week about opeining up our facility to facilitate this. Dont know what his response will be but it is worth a try. My proposal will be -- Say something like a Qualified Retired LEO pays a reasonable "range fee" qualifies on the course of fire that our agency utilized meeting all the performace standards and a "Q Card" could be issued. QRLEO is then entered into our data base as being issued a "Q Card" under HR218. After supplying copies of all appropriate ID issued from Agency they reitred from. I'm sure there would be other paperwork such as hold harmless agreement... blah, blah. This may be especially attractive to those who worked for an agency that refuse to "qualify" their retired / honorabley seperated officers.
I will PM those interested if this can be facilitated... After I talk to the Boss
the text is cited below:
S.1132
One Hundred Eleventh Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
the fifth day of January, two thousand and ten An Act To amend title 18, United States Code, to improve the provisions relating to the carrying of concealed weapons by law enforcement officers, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act Improvements Act of 2010’.
SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER SAFETY PROVISIONS OF TITLE 18.
(a) In General- Section 926B of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
(1) in subsection (c)(3), by inserting ‘which could result in suspension or loss of police
powers’ after ‘agency’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
‘(f) For the purposes of this section, a law enforcement officer of the Amtrak Police
Department, a law enforcement officer of the Federal Reserve, or a law enforcement or
police officer of the executive branch of the Federal Government qualifies as an employee of a governmental agency who is authorized by law to engage in or supervise the prevention, detection, investigation, or prosecution of, or the incarceration of any person for, any violation of law, and has statutory powers of arrest.’.
(b) Active Law Enforcement Officers- Section 926B of title 18, United States Code is amended by striking subsection (e) and inserting the following:
‘(e) As used in this section, the term ‘firearm’--
‘(1) except as provided in this subsection, has the same meaning as in section 921
of this title;
‘(2) includes ammunition not expressly prohibited by Federal law or subject to the
provisions of the National Firearms Act; and
‘(3) does not include--
‘(A) any machinegun (as defined in section 5845 of the National Firearms
Act);
‘(B) any firearm silencer (as defined in section 921 of this title); and
‘(C) any destructive device (as defined in section 921 of this title).’.
(c) Retired Law Enforcement Officers- Section 926C of title 18, United States Code is amended
--
(1) in subsection (c)--
(A) in paragraph (1)--
(i) by striking ‘retired’ and inserting ‘separated from service’; and
(ii) by striking ‘, other than for reasons of mental instability’;
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘retirement’ and inserting ‘separation’;
(C) in paragraph (3)--
(i) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘retirement, was regularly employed
as a law enforcement officer for an aggregate of 15 years or more’ and
inserting ‘separation, served as a law enforcement officer for an aggregate of
10 years or more’; and
(ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘retired’ and inserting ‘separated’;
(D) by striking paragraph (4) and inserting the following:
‘(4) during the most recent 12-month period, has met, at the expense of the
individual, the standards for qualification in firearms training for active law
enforcement officers, as determined by the former agency of the individual, the State in
which the individual resides or, if the State has not established such standards, either a law enforcement agency within the State in which the individual resides or the standards used by a certified firearms instructor that is qualified to conduct a firearms qualification test for active duty officers within that State;’; and
(E) by striking paragraph (5) and replacing it with the following:
‘(5)(A) has not been officially found by a qualified medical professional employed by
the agency to be unqualified for reasons relating to mental health and as a result of
this finding will not be issued the photographic identification as described in subsection (d)
(1); or
‘(B) has not entered into an agreement with the agency from which the individual is
separating from service in which that individual acknowledges he or she is not
qualified under this section for reasons relating to mental health and for those reasons will
not receive or accept the photographic identification as described in subsection (d)(1);’;
(2) in subsection (d)--
(A) paragraph (1)--
(i) by striking ‘retired’ and inserting ‘separated’; and
(ii) by striking ‘to meet the standards’ and all that follows through
‘concealed firearm’ and inserting ‘to meet the active duty standards for
qualification in firearms training as established by the agency to carry a firearm
of the same type as the concealed firearm’;
(B) paragraph (2)--
(i) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘retired’ and inserting ‘separated’;
and
(ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘that indicates’ and all that follows
through the period and inserting ‘or by a certified firearms instructor
that is qualified to conduct a firearms qualification test for active duty officers
within that State that indicates that the individual has, not less than 1 year
before the date the individual is carrying the concealed firearm, been tested or
otherwise found by the State or a certified firearms instructor that is qualified
to conduct a firearms qualification test for active duty officers within that State
to have met--
‘(I) the active duty standards for qualification in firearms
training, as established by the State, to carry a firearm of the
same type as the concealed firearm; or
‘(II) if the State has not established such standards,
standards set by any law enforcement agency within that
State to carry a firearm of the same type as the concealed firearm.’;
and
(3) by striking subsection (e) and inserting the following:
‘(e) As used in this section--
‘(1) the term ‘firearm’--
‘(A) except as provided in this paragraph, has the same meaning as in section 921 of this title;
‘(B) includes ammunition not expressly prohibited by Federal law or subject to the provisions of the National Firearms Act; and
‘(C) does not include--
‘(i) any machinegun (as defined in section 5845 of the National Firearms Act);
‘(ii) any firearm silencer (as defined in section 921 of this title); and
‘(iii) any destructive device (as defined in section 921 of this title);
and
‘(2) the term ‘service with a public agency as a law enforcement officer’ includes
service as a law enforcement officer of the Amtrak Police Department, service as a
law enforcement officer of the Federal Reserve, or service as a law enforcement or police officer of the executive branch of the Federal Government.’.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.
