Pass The Ammo

Just got this from NRA HQ. If you live in Idaho, please send an email to our Senators to pass both these new laws. Refer to the bills’s by their slip numbers. RS 15636C4 & RS 15712C1.

RS 15636C4 is a “Right-to-Carry” reform bill. It would extend the term of Idaho concealed weapon permits from four to five years and, like driver’s licenses, it would require that renewal notices be sent out prior to permit expiration. Additionally, this proposed bill would repeal the requirement that a person obtain a concealed weapon permit if she only carries a concealed weapon in a vehicle. Under current law, anyone who can lawfully possess a firearm can carry it OPENLY in a vehicle but that isn’t always the safest manner to keep a firearm in a vehicle. This bill will allow law-abiding citizens to carry concealed in a vehicle without a permit. Also, RS 15636C4 would allow concealed carry by law-abiding citizens anywhere outside city limits without a permit. This is how the law is in Montana and, not surprisingly, it works very well there. Help protect and enhance the rights of law-abiding Idaho firearm owners and out-of-state visitors who visit Idaho by motor vehicle and who carry firearms in their vehicle for protection and other lawful purposes by urging Senators to support RS 15636C4!

RS 15712C1 is an “Emergency Powers” bill. All NRA members should be well aware of what happened in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Law-abiding citizens were stripped of their firearms by some overzealous law enforcement officials. NRA was forced to file a lawsuit to stop this egregious violation of the rights of people who were only trying to protect their families and property. This bill would simply clarify that, during any state of emergency, no government official shall impose restrictions on the lawful possession, transfer, sale, transport, storage, display or use of firearms or ammunition. Help ensure that New Orleans-style tyranny will never happen in Idaho by urging Senators to support RS 15712C1!

Messages for legislators can be left at 208-332-1000 or at 800-626-0471 for people outside the Boise area.

For a list of the Senate Judiciary & Rules Committee members please visit here.

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This is a copy of the letter I just sent them.

Support bills RS 15636C4 + RS 15712C1

I would like to see your strong support in passing RS 15636C4 the “Right-to-Carry” reform bill. As a CCW applicant, I don’t mind carrying on my person for my own and others protection, but for my wife to need a CCW just to have a loaded firearm in the private property of her vehicle is silly. I hope to see this common sense bill passed.

I would also like to see RS 15712C1 the “Emergency Powers” bill passed. I was appauled at the disarmament of law abiding families intent on protecting themselves from the criminal element who roamed New Orleans raping and murdering at will. I want to rest at ease in my home, knowing that the government won’t be robbing my family of it’s only instrument of defense in such a crisis as Katrina.