Missouri Considers Restoration of Second Amendment Rights

AmmoLand ^ | February 15, 2024 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

HB 1708 has been introduced in Missouri to restore Second Amendment rights. The bill does this by incrementally removing infringements on the carry of firearms while on public transportation, in churches, and for people between the ages of 18 and 19.

The bill has evolved over the past few years. Last year, it passed the House of Representatives but was killed in the Senate by not being brought to a vote. In 2022, the bill again passed the House 101 to 40. It was killed in the Senate by not being brought to a vote. In 2024, the bill is HB 1708.

HB 1708 makes several incremental changes.

1. The bill adds people with a valid concealed carry permit to those allowed to carry weapons on public transportation, with the exception of Amtrak.
2. The bill lowers the age requirement to obtain a concealed carry permit to eighteen from nineteen.
3. The bill reforms the law to prevent the loss of Second Amendment rights by those who entered deferred adjudication programs.  In those programs, the defendant is required to plead guilty or enter a plea of nolo contendere. If the program is successfully completed, the case is dismissed and the defendant is never convicted. In Missouri law, if a person “plead guilty to or entered a plea of nolo contendere” they are banned from obtaining a concealed carry permit, even if they were never convicted. HB 1708 removes the “plead guilty to or entered a plea of nolo contendere ”  language from the law.
4. The bill extends the exceptions for law enforcement officers, retired law enforcement officers, and United States military or National Guard personnel on active duty to retired judicial officers or current or former members of the general assembly who possess a valid concealed carry

[marktwain]

There are several incremental repeals of infringements on the exercise of Second Amendment rights in this bill.

They would not stand judicial examination under Bruen.

[faithhopecharity]

any move towards restoring our “inalienable” rights and liberties is welcome, even teeny weeny micro-steps like these

but
isn’t it tragic that we’ve been reduced to this nearly-insignificant detail, minutia ... when ALL of these hundreds of “laws” and “regulations” and “regulatory agencies” are violent violations, infringements of our “protected” liberties and US Constitution Bill of Rights.

Criminalizing citizens who merely assert or exercise their “inalienable” rights of citizenship is, of course, an old and well-trod practice of dictatorships all around the world

a brief article (written about the legal persecution of President Trump but basically the author’s concerns apply to us ALL now in USA):

https://www.oxfordeagle.com/2018/05/09/show-me-the-man-and-ill-show-you-the-crime/

[bobbo666]

This is also a method to attack abortion.