Posted on 06/07/2022 5:04:45 AM PDT by marktwain
A governor’s veto of a Constitutional Carry bill is a setback for Second Amendment supporters and Constitutionalists.
A veto is also a signal the hard work of education has mostly been successful. How else would pro 2A bills reach anti-gun Governors’ desks?
The Constitutional Carry movement was a dream in the thoughts of Second Amendment and Constitutional activists at the turn of the millennia. Today, half of the United States are members of the Constitutional Carry (permitless) club.
This correspondent found 14 vetoes of Constitutional Carry bills. Nine of the vetoes were by Democrats, five were by Republicans. This correspondent found 14 vetoes of Constitutional Carry bills. Nine of the vetoes were by Democrats, five were by Republicans.
Two vetoes of Democrat governors were overridden. No Republican vetoes were overridden.
Here is a summation of the vetoes, which governors vetoed Constitutional Carry bills, and which Governors signed Constitutional Carry bills later.
Montana Governors Schweitzer (D) and Bullock (D) vetoed Constitutional Carry three times.
- In 2011, Democrat governor Brian Schweitzer vetoed Constitutional Carry bill HB 271. The legislature did not override the veto.
- In 2015, Democrat governor Steve Bullock vetoed Constitutional Carry bill HB 298.
- In 2017, Governor Bullock vetoed Constitutional Carry bill HB 262.
Montana passed Constitutional Carry in 2021. Republican Governor Greg Gianforte signed it on February 18.
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
Now that 25 states have Constitutional Carry, it becomes harder and harder to defend infringements on the Second Amendment.
“ Constitutional Carry is difficult to stop in states, as legislators become educated about it.”
Educated or replaced.
Either one works.
L
I’m a little slow this morning, I haven’t had my jolt of caffeine yet. I had to read this post twice until I got it. I couldn’t agree more.
i am still waiting for the free state of Maryland to recognize constitutional carry.
I dig Constitutional Carry, but there is a downside. A cop used to be able to throw a gangbanger in jail for carrying without a license.
Not that cops are policing any more, so I guess it’s a wash.
“ A cop used to be able to throw a gangbanger in jail for carrying without a license.”
Most of those gang bangers have criminal records that make possession of a firearm a felony. That’s the case here in Illinois in general and Chicago in particular. Cook County for years had a specific Gun Court. It worked reasonably well right up until it was abolished because….wait for it….
Racism.
Now 2, 3, 4 time felons caught with guns have those charges reduced or dropped entirely and are back on the street before the cop who made the arrest can finish the paperwork.
What needs to happen is to reinstate Project Exile. Have a felony record and get caught with a firearm? Straight off the Federal Court you go where the conviction rate was 98% and the sentence was 5 years with no parole.
And the Federal pen was hundreds of miles away, so no visits from your baby mommas.
That would put a stop to the majority of this crap.
L
The article fails to mention Democrat John Bel Edwards (Louisiana).
Fortunately, he is term-limited out at the end of this term of office. Hopefully, Louisiana will elect a conservative Republican governor who will sign constitutional carry legislation, which has passed both houses of the Louisiana legislature more than once.
My error. I thought the excerpt list was all governors who vetoed, but it is specifically only those cases where the veto was over-written.
I see from the full article that it does mention the case of Bel Edwards veto.
My bad.
Near the end of the list, easy to miss.
This is the first time I have experienced it.
Nebraska, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Florida are all likely to pass constitutional carry in the next couple years.
I could see North and South Carolina passing it before too long. Not sure about Wisconsin.
Evers has been a disaster for Wisconsin.
Almost as bad as President Wilson was for the USA.
Once you have served your time, your gun rights should be returned, along with every other right!
NC enjoyed a super majority in the legislature and also had a Republican Governor. Nothing happened. What a bunch of D**kheads!
Yeah I know. I think getting rid of Roy Cooper will be necessary for it to pass. He’s awful.
“Once you have served your time, your gun rights should be returned, along with every other right!”
Philosophically speaking I agree. If you’re so dangerous your rights can never be restored then you belong in a cage till you die.
L
If said gang-banger has prior felony convictions, unless he has had his right ‘restored’ after paying for his felony then said cop can still throw said gangbanger in jail for carrying.
“If you’re so dangerous your rights can never be restored then you belong in a cage till you die.”
Why does society need to spend their hard earned money keeping them alive? Once someone becomes a predator on society, society has the right to put them down.
Agreed.
L
I’ll go one step further and define who to put down: Crimes we imprison for 5+ years today are probably crimes where we should simply be executing the predator instead. Of course, we have many things that are crimes today that should not be, and we shouldn’t have the IRS, FBI, and other things that make up crimes.
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