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Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Montana Legislature Going Constitutional Carry?

2/14/17 KRTV:

HELENA -From schools to the state Capitol to the U.S. Post Office and beyond, Republican lawmakers are advancing bills that would expand where Montanans can carry concealed weapons.



On Tuesday, in a nearly party-line vote, the state Senate voted 32-17 to endorse a bill that says anyone who legally owns a firearm in Montana can carry it concealed – without a permit, as they must have now.      
                               
“This levels the playing field,” said Senate President Scott Sales, R-Bozeman, who carried House Bill 262 on the floor. “If you’re legal to own a gun and legal to own it, you should be legal to carry it.”
The Senate also endorsed a bill Tuesday that says anyone in Montana can carry a legally owned firearm on U.S. Postal Service property – in defiance of Postal Service policy forbidding it – and the House endorsed a bill saying legislators can carry concealed weapons in the state Capitol.
A House committee the same day also heard a bill that would allow school district employees in Montana to carry concealed weapons on school property, dubbed the “Montana School Safety Act.”

2 comments:

  1. More like shadow theater or something to help try to get rid of the current Democratic governor in his next election, he vetoed CC in 2013 and did so again a week ago, calling it "absurd".

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  2. Sorry, but Governor Bullock already vetoed this bill- for the THIRD EFFIN' TIME. Seems my fellow Montana voters like to hamstring the legislature, sending a Republican majority to Helena along with a Democrat governor to squash everything they put forward. We have a special election coming up to replace Representative Ryan Zinke (now Interior Secretary) and will vote on Montana's senior Senate seat, now held by Jon "Scourge of all-you-can-eat buffets everywhere" Tester. Three guesses which way they'll go.
    We may get a veto override on constitutional carry in this session, but don't count on it.

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