Posted on 03/19/2014 6:43:43 PM PDT by Lazamataz
Thanks to your active help and involvement, the Georgia Senate passed House Bill 60 with an additional amendment by a 37-18 vote last night. Your support is still needed, however, to ensure that this comprehensive pro-gun reform receives a vote of concurrence in the state House TOMORROW before the General Assembly adjourns. Please contact your state Representative immediately and urge him or her to agree to HB 60.
The SENATE did some rather disgusting things to the original HB875 entering a “poison pill” amendment and making it unworkable for the house... Just like they did last year...
Fortunately, the house attached the SAME LAUGUAGE of HB875 to HB60 which passed the Senate...
Hunter Hill & Jessie Stone have A LOT of explaining to do!
If you have ANY DOUBT about Nathan Deal, DON’T! These guys are running interference for him...
What happened March 12, 2014 in the General Assembly?
Wednesday, March 12, the Senate Judiciary Non-Civil Committee met without inviting the sponsor of HB875 and introduced a substitute bill to severely weaken the bill. The substitute which changes churches to opt in with the permission of the owner of the church, gives preemption to local governments on carry into government buildings and adds family violence battery (which means if you touch your wife and she does not want to be touched, you have committed family violence battery) was introduced by Senator Hunter Hill. These changes are not acceptable to GeorgiaCarry.Org nor are they acceptable to the NRA.
This move appears to be another step in the assurance of the appointment of a judgeship to Senator Stone.
The vote was a 3-3 tie until Senator Stone voted to break the tie.
The only Senator who spoke up for the Second Amendment and voted against the substitute was Senator Josh McKoon who stated his displeasure with the weakening of the bill. Every Member of GeorgiaCarry.Org should send Senator Josh McKoon an email thanking him for standing up for them and the Second Amendment.
This is exactly why GCO worked with the House to get HB60 passed to the Senate as we were certain Jesse Stone and his committee would introduce this type substitute to a very good gun bill that would render it almost useless in advancing the Second Amendment in GA. The Senate now has a good gun bill and a very weakened gun bill that insures they will have to decide whether they are Second Amendment Proponents or Second Amendment Opponents. Their vote in the next couple of days will be evidence of where they stand.
What is the current status of each of the bills?
HB875 will now go to Senate Rules Committee with the possibility of going to the floor for a vote. HB60 is still on the floor and available for a Senate vote whenever the Lt. Governor sees fit to bring it to the floor.
Nathan Deal has turned out to be a major effing disappointment to me. I have been fully expecting the constitutional carry bill to get passed but now I don’t think it ever will. They will substitute the current pending legislation.
In Texas, in 1966, lots of people pulled long guns down from the gun racks in the back windows of their pickup trucks and returned the unfortunate (brain-tumor-addled) Charles Whitman's deadly fire.
After the Texas citizens started returning fire, Whitman killed no more pedestrians within range of his weapon (a scoped M-1 carbine iirc -- he was an ex-Marine sharpshooter) until two Austin cops and a shotgun-carrying civilian could get up the clock tower to kill him.
HB60 passed...
Now Nathan will have to put up or shut up in an election year... It’s not even close to Constitutional Carry, but the GA gun laws were so bad for so many years that this is a monumental improvement.... I guess we are going to have to go the way of the progressives and get what we can a little at a time...
I don’t get Nathan Deal. He is rated as a hard right conservative by FAIR. He acts like a Liberal now that he’s Governor. Why wouldn’t he push for constitutional carry? I felt sure that would pass this year and now we get some watered down carpola. Its better than nothing but if this is all you can expect with the Republicans in charge of both state houses and the Governor’s office we are in trouble.
Laz we in Bama are pushing our own open carry law right now, passed the Senate, before the house now. SB 354...
Woot I sure hope it passes.
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