Wish List

[Katygunnut]

1. Parking lot carry
2. Campus carry
3. Banning 30.06 signs*
4. Banning employers from restricting concealed carry in the work place*
5. Licensed Open Carry

On #3 and 4, I think that the RKBA is a constitutionally guaranteed right (the supreme court and I agree on that point). As with other civil liberties, I do not think that companies should be able to infringe on this right if they are public establishments (private clubs and individual homes, etc., would be exempted). I'd like to see the RKBA protected just as much as my right not to have to give up my freedom of religion, etc.

After all, you did say that this is a wish list, right?

[jamisjockey]

Another for my list:

Remove the Authority to disarm. I've committed no crime being armed. The officer shouldn't be able to disarm me unless I'm a suspect in something that would prevent me from being armed to begin with. And then, there is the whole handling-a-loaded-weapon on the side of the road thing. Un necessary confiscation of private property IMHO.

When I was in Utah, a friend related a story to me. He had been disarmed by a female UHP officer. She pointed the gun at him twice trying to figure out how to make it safe. She did not know that you have to release the safety in order to rack the slide on a 1911, and never finished making the weapon safe.

[billv]

The Parking lot law is OK. But I'd like to see it extended so that employers and business that ban firearms are required to provide lockers (strong ones at that), to place your weapon in, with sufficient security for them (not just a video camera of the area). I ride a vanpool in to work which bans firearms and I'm not going to leave my firearm in the car while I'm at work 25 miles away from me. So I have to leave it at home, so I'm vulnerable from the time I leave home until I arrive home again.

Campus concealed carry is a good idea too. All schools, not just colleges. Teachers and administrators should be able to arm themselves from these thugs in high school, as well as protect from active shooters that enter onto any school property. Protect the children.

I'd like to get all the laws that ban firearms tidied up into one law. If you ban firearms, then you use 30.06 sign. Period. Same for the 51% signs. If you are required to post a 51% sign, then simply make it a 30.06 sign. No second guessing if firearms are allowed or not. Better is to allow carry in places that serve alcohol as long as you don't consume.

Better yet, ban businesses and employers from banning firearms. Yes I know they can ban them if they want to. I consider business private property in a lower class than personal private property. You can ban me from carrying on your property with your home, but I don't think you should have the same right on business or commercial property. They are used for vastly different purposes. You generally don't have large number of people unknown to you coming and going at your house, but businesses do with no control, which raises the risk to me. Yes I can shop elsewhere, but put the burden on them, not me.

Unrestricted Open Carry, including on We the People's Property, also known as Federal property. Appropriate restrictions that make sense are OK, but they have to provide lockers with security. Post office - of course you should be able to carry. Court house and jails - appropriate restrictions. DMV - why not?

[Katygunnut]

Better yet, ban businesses and employers from banning firearms. Yes I know they can ban them if they want to. I consider business private property in a lower class than personal private property. You can ban me from carrying on your property with your home, but I don't think you should have the same right on business or commercial property. They are used for vastly different purposes. You generally don't have large number of people unknown to you coming and going at your house, but businesses do with no control, which raises the risk to me. Yes I can shop elsewhere, but put the burden on them, not me.

I don't get why businesses and employers are so freely able to trample on my civil rights in the area of the 2nd ammendment. These rights should get the same level of protection as any of our other civil liberties.

[terryg]

Two NRA-Backed Measures Introduced in the Texas Senate!

The Texas Legislature convened this past Tuesday for the 2011 legislative session. Two NRA-backed measures have already been filed in the Texas Senate: SB 321 by State Senator Glenn Hegar (R-Katy), legislation prohibiting employers from enforcing policies against the storage of lawfully-owned firearms in employees' private motor vehicles parked at work, and SB 354 by State Senator Jeff Wentworth (R-San Antonio), a bill to allow Concealed Handgun Licenses to protect themselves on college and university campuses.

Those are two that I can think of off the top of my head. Cut and pasted from an e-mail I got from the NRA-ILA.

So, I wonder why the NRA-ILA chooses to support SB 354 over HB 86? I like HB 86 much better as there are no-exclusions for private institutions. But, I guess they fear that this may also make it harder to pass. Any other reasons anybody can see?

[terryg]

Two NRA-Backed Measures Introduced in the Texas Senate!

The Texas Legislature convened this past Tuesday for the 2011 legislative session. Two NRA-backed measures have already been filed in the Texas Senate: SB 321 by State Senator Glenn Hegar (R-Katy), legislation prohibiting employers from enforcing policies against the storage of lawfully-owned firearms in employees' private motor vehicles parked at work, and SB 354 by State Senator Jeff Wentworth (R-San Antonio), a bill to allow Concealed Handgun Licenses to protect themselves on college and university campuses.

Those are two that I can think of off the top of my head. Cut and pasted from an e-mail I got from the NRA-ILA.

So, I wonder why the NRA-ILA chooses to support SB 354 over HB 86? I like HB 86 much better as there are no-exclusions for private institutions. But, I guess they fear that this may also make it harder to pass. Any other reasons anybody can see?

I posted this as a new thread here.