INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana legislative report estimates state and local governments would lose nearly $11 million a year in revenue under the proposed elimination of fees for lifetime handgun permits.
The House Ways and Means Committee endorsed the change Monday, sending it to the Republican-dominated House for consideration.
Those seeking lifetime permits to carry a handgun in public now pay fees of up to $125 are mostly split between state and local police agencies.
Some Republicans have sought a full repeal of Indiana’s handgun permit law, saying it infringes on gun owners’ Second Amendment rights. Legislators compromised by proposing to eliminate the permit fee starting in July 2019.
House Ways and Means Chairman Tim Brown says he expects that the new two-year state budget adopted in 2019 will address the fee-revenue loss.
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When this passes I intend to sue to get a portion of the $125 I paid for my lifetime carry permit.
They can make that all up and more when they enact licensing requirements for journalists to write anything and for licensing people that want to go to church. First amendment license fees need to be instituted if we are forced to pay to exercise our 2nd Amendment.
They should have done what they started out to do and just dropped the requirement to license all together. It’s already illegal for felons to carry guns, illegal to use them in crimes…the requirement to license law abiding citizens does nothing to stop criminals from breaking the law.
Once again we have biased reporting from the AP, spin it as a bad loss of revenue, fault of republicans.