The Indiana Senate might consider a change in their stance on handgun carry permits.
GOP Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray says he expects a Senate committee in the next week to advance a bill loosening the state’s lenient firearms restrictions. Bray says a repeal of the state’s handgun permit requirement might win approval despite ongoing opposition from major law enforcement organizations and Indiana’s State Police Superintendent.
The Hoosier state currently requires people to obtain a license to carry a loaded handgun outside their own homes, businesses or cars.
There are 21 other states allowing handguns to be carried without permits, known as “constitutional carry.”
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It will never pass. Indiana is behind on everything. Free permits already increased carry permits. To law enforcement…take solace in gun sellers still doing background checks. Criminals will get guns regardless of laws. Straw purchases happen way too often. Has a police officer or trooper ever come across a person with criminal background who had a carry permit?? Doubtful. But we understand your concerns.
Criminals are CARRYING RIGHT NOW without any permit or background check. The cops are barking up the wrong tree on this. Their bests friend is a law abiding armed citizen. The leftist anti-2nd Amendment fools are conflating law-abiding carries with criminal carries. They portray all firearms owners as criminals. That simply is not true. Except draconian rules that limit The People’s ability to defend themselves will eventually be ignored by everyone. If you all want to stop violence, put the violent in jail and keep them there. Violent activity does not need a firearm. In fact most of it does not. More people are killed every year by using hands, fists, or feet than the hated yet ubiquitous AR (Armalite Rifle)-15 or the AK-47 clones. Why is it the gun ban crowd seems to know so much about what they know nothing about? That is called LYING in my book.
The doomsday scenarios law enforcement keep putting forth have not happened in any of the 17 other states that have enacted Constitutional carry. It’s time to ignore their fabricated concerns and put the power back in the hands of Citizens, where it belongs.
Let the Senators vote on this bill! It will pass! None of the 17 constitutional carry states have had a problem.