Proposed Changes to AZ Laws

[therickster]

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Some great stuff being thrown around in the Arizona state legislature right now, including the right to conceal carry without a permit.

Thoughts? Any body else here from AZ that knows more? (the article is from last month...) Are there any other states that are considering something like this?

 

[Kor]

From my inbox:

On Friday, March 5th at 10 AM , the Senate Appropriations Committee will debate and vote on SB 1108. The sponsor of SB 1108, Committee Chairman Senator Russell Pearce , has proposed a "strike everything" amendment that replaces SB 1108, in its entirety, with the intended language from SB 1102 (Constitutional Carry).



SB 1102, which was headed for a Senate floor vote, was derailed last week after the attachment of the Cheuvront amendment during the Senate Committee of the Whole (COW), creating a Class 4 Felony for private sellers of firearms who fail to verify a buyer's citizenship when the sale is conducted at a gun show: http://www.azcdl.org/html/news.html#CheuvrontAmendment .



Now that we have a second bite at the apple, it’s critical we remind the Senate Appropriations Committee members to support the amended SB 1108. A letter has been prepared and is waiting for you at our Action Center :
http://capwiz.com/azcdl/issues/alert/?alertid=14750316 .

We have more good news. Representative Frank Antenori (http://azcdl.capwiz.com/bio/id/51325), who sponsored the House version of Constitutional Carry (HB 2347), has been appointed to replace Senator Jonathon Paton who vacated his seat to run for the U.S. House of Representatives. Senator Antenori is expected to be present when SB 1108 moves to the Senate floor for debate and vote.

Meanwhile, Senator Antenori ’s House version of Constitutional Carry, HB 2347, passed out of the MAPS Committee on February 3, 2010 and is awaiting a review by the House Rules Committee before heading to a floor debate in the House COW.

In other news, we are expecting SB 1168, the Senate version of the firearms preemption bill, to be scheduled for a Senate COW debate, hopefully this week. When the calendar is posted, we will let you know via an Alert.

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We are expecting SB 1168 to be scheduled on the Senate Committee of the Whole (COW) agenda for Thursday, March 4, 2010 . SB 1168 strengthens state firearms preemption laws, adds firearms storage and accessories to the list of things political subdivisions cannot regulate, and removes the prohibition on carrying a firearm in public parks without a CCW permit.

Please contact your Senator urging them to support SB 1168 during the COW debate.
A letter has been prepared and is waiting for you at our Action Center :
http://capwiz.com/azcdl/issues/alert/?alertid=14753896 .

If you haven’t already done so, please send a message to the Senate Appropriations Committee members reminding them to support the amended SB 1108 (Constitutional Carry), which is on their Friday agenda. A direct link to your letter is here: http://capwiz.com/azcdl/issues/alert/?alertid=14750316 .

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[Zoogster]

including the right to conceal carry without a permit.

I am hoping it passes. I will be visiting Arizona even more if it passes. Not sure if I can handle the summer heat enough to be a full time resident though!

Constitutional Carry sabotaged in Senate.

Earlier this afternoon (February 18, 2010), the Senate debated SB 1102 in the Committee of the Whole (COW). The COW debate is the last chance for a bill to get amended before a formal (Third Read) floor vote by the full Senate. During the COW debate, Democrat Senator Ken Cheuvront submitted a hostile amendment, right out of the Brady Center play book, which would make it a class 4 felony to not verify citizenship on any private sale conducted at a gun show. This is the same amendment that was defeated during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on SB 1102.

Initially, Senator Cheuvront’s amendment was defeated by voice vote during the debate on SB 1102. However, parliamentary procedures allowed him to reintroduce his amendment during the process of “closing” the COW calendar containing SB 1102 and a number of other bills. At that point, Senator Cheuvront asked for a recorded vote. As expected, all 12 Democrats in the Senate voted for the Cheuvront amendment. Of the 18 Republicans, Senator Jonathan Paton was not present for the vote, and the following 3 Republicans “crossed the aisle” to limit your freedoms, voting to PASS the Cheuvront amendment by a 15-14 vote.

Wow. They are ruining good legislation. Democrats strike again!
I mean 3 out of 18 Republicans turned on you too, but every single Democrat?!
You guys need to get rid of Senator Cheuvront.
Vote that guy down.

The sponsor of SB 1108, Committee Chairman Senator Russell Pearce, has proposed a "strike everything" amendment that replaces SB 1108, in its entirety, with the intended language from SB 1102 (Constitutional Carry).

Hopefully this goes through on Friday without Cheuvront being an idiot.
Those turncoat Republicans should get a lot of hate mail! If even one of them had voted differently it would have been fine.
The two Democrats with prior good NRA scores could probably use some phone calls and bad mail too.

Some positive mail perhaps to the rest.