typically, authored by a Dumb. Let me state for the record that I am all for voluntary firearms safety training. However, I am against the state infringing on my right to purchase, own, and transfer firearms by requiring me to take such a course. My 2A rights are already infringed by requiring me to obtain a carry permit, and enough is enough.
Worse, this would trample all over the right of Indiana citizens to purchase firearms and keep them in their homes for personal defense without requiring a permit. I'm sure that part of the agenda of this bill is to cut down on firearms sales by the general public, who might buy a gun to keep in the house if there were no strings attached, but would probably pass if they had to take the time and spend the money to take a course before they could. (On top of that, in a down economy, here we have the Dumbs advocating yet another form of taxation to control the public. Typical.)
It's too bad Senator Sipes is retiring after this term. She deserves to be taken to the woodshed by a primary or general election opponent for this.
Bad bill.
SENATE BILL No. 304
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Citations Affected: IC 35-47-1.5; IC 35-47-2.5-4.
Synopsis: Firearms safety courses. Prohibits a person from: (1) purchasing a firearm; (2) renting a firearm; or (3) obtaining a firearm by transfer; after December 31, 2010, unless the person has successfully completed a firearms safety course conducted by the state police department or a person authorized by the superintendent of the state police department to conduct a firearms safety course. Exempts certain persons from the firearms safety course requirement. Makes it a Class A misdemeanor for a person to: (1) obtain a firearm; or (2) provide a firearm to another person; in violation of the firearms safety course requirement. Requires the state police department to adopt rules before December 1, 2010, to implement the firearms safety course requirement.
Effective: Upon passage; July 1, 2010.
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Sipes
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January 12, 2010, read first time and referred to Committee on Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters.
I thought the R's were the Dumbs and the D's were the Evils? Or maybe that's backwards. Anyway, dumb law, indeed.