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New Arizona gun laws take effect Thursday
http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=5418152
New laws go into effect next week in Arizona. Many of the new laws deal with guns.
While some new laws are about to be implemented, some are just getting revamped, like Arizona's Conceal Carry law.
Beginning Thursday, it will no longer be necessary for conceal and carry permit holders to take a refresher course to renew their permits.
District 28 Representative Ted Downing says, "As of a week from now, everyone who is renewing their conceal weapons permits will not be required to take the two hour refresher course."
When you first apply for your conceal carry permit, you go through a background check, you're fingerprinted, pay a fee, then take an eight-hour training class to learn the do's and don'ts.
Under current law, when your permit expires five years later, a two-hour refresher course is mandated to renew your permit. But next week, with a change in state law, that course will no longer be required and that bothers Tucson resident Millie Layton.
Layton says, "I definitely don't agree with that at all."
Layton has a gun. It's at home, and that's where she says it stays.
"We've got enough protection." I don't feel guns are necessary, I really don't," the gun-owner says.
But another Tucson resident, Chris Hearn, says, "It doesn't concern me at all."
Hearn doesn't own a gun and doesn't see the disappearance of the refresher course to be a problem.
Hearn says, "If I had the opportunity to not take the class, I would go for it."
Not having the time or wanting to spend the money to take the class is one thing, it's staying on top of the law that concerns Representative Downing.
Downing says, "The difficulty would be in a, say, a five-year period, you can have anywhere from 10, 20, 30 changes in law. How is that individual going to know those?"
The Arizona Department of Public Safety oversees the permit program and, at least according to its website, opposed the change in law.
http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=5418152
New laws go into effect next week in Arizona. Many of the new laws deal with guns.
While some new laws are about to be implemented, some are just getting revamped, like Arizona's Conceal Carry law.
Beginning Thursday, it will no longer be necessary for conceal and carry permit holders to take a refresher course to renew their permits.
District 28 Representative Ted Downing says, "As of a week from now, everyone who is renewing their conceal weapons permits will not be required to take the two hour refresher course."
When you first apply for your conceal carry permit, you go through a background check, you're fingerprinted, pay a fee, then take an eight-hour training class to learn the do's and don'ts.
Under current law, when your permit expires five years later, a two-hour refresher course is mandated to renew your permit. But next week, with a change in state law, that course will no longer be required and that bothers Tucson resident Millie Layton.
Layton says, "I definitely don't agree with that at all."
Layton has a gun. It's at home, and that's where she says it stays.
"We've got enough protection." I don't feel guns are necessary, I really don't," the gun-owner says.
But another Tucson resident, Chris Hearn, says, "It doesn't concern me at all."
Hearn doesn't own a gun and doesn't see the disappearance of the refresher course to be a problem.
Hearn says, "If I had the opportunity to not take the class, I would go for it."
Not having the time or wanting to spend the money to take the class is one thing, it's staying on top of the law that concerns Representative Downing.
Downing says, "The difficulty would be in a, say, a five-year period, you can have anywhere from 10, 20, 30 changes in law. How is that individual going to know those?"
The Arizona Department of Public Safety oversees the permit program and, at least according to its website, opposed the change in law.
