Listening to the 3/21 executive session Senate Committee meeting right now
HB 271 as amended tightens the requirements for concealed carry if the person does not have a permit. Currently hunter's safety is a valid training (admittedly this is a joke as a training for CCW). Going forward, this would no longer be valid and the new requirements:
(b) completion of a firearms safety or training course approved or conducted by the department of fish, wildlife, and parks, a similar agency of another state, a national firearms association, a law enforcement agency, an institution of higher education, or an organization that uses instructors certified by a national firearms association;
(c) completion of a law enforcement firearms safety or training course offered to or required of public or private law enforcement personnel and conducted or approved by a law enforcement agency
This would require me to go take a handgun course. I'm kind of ok with this though would I prefer Vermont style carry.
It is moving on to a floor vote.
FYI - Senator Anders Blewett (D) is a smug little bastard that works for daddy's law firm as an ambulance chaser who I know because I grew up next door to his grandparents. I've always greatly disliked him if you can't tell... I have great respect for his Grandfather who I used to do chores for (because the younger Blewett who lived all of a mile away was too busy). Alexander Blewett was a Republican state representative and ran against Mike Mansfield for the US Senate.
HB 384 - will allow concealed carry in previously denied places
Amendments proposed to let business owners post no gun signs. The committee then goes off on a massive tangent about allowing guns at all in those places, not just concealed and the impact of those signs on that which confused the hell out of everybody (myself included). Basically everybody was confused and it failed 6/6 because nobody understood the current statutes.
HB 174 - suppressors when hunting.
Sen Hinkle brings up an ethics of huntin' argument and he is a bow hunting instructor. Then he brings up spot lighting and he says that combined with a silencer makes it too easy to poach. There is so much BS around this bill, ignorant testimony, and misinformation it is insane. In the previous committee meeting on this the FWP Chief of Law Enforcement brought in a bunch of pictures of poached animals and presented them as the carnage that will ensue.. except they were all spotlight kills. Then one idiot is comparing a .22 suppressor used for plinking which is very quiet and used for boy scout training to a suppressor on a .30-06. This frustrates the hell out of me. None of these idiots knew the meat of what they were voting on.
Most of the committee members (all of them that voted no) declined a range trip a few weeks ago to see how suppressors worked.
The thing that brought a R to vote no is land owner objections to suppressors when hunting. It died 3/9. God damnit so much.
I guess I'm done buying NFA stuff.