I don’t know about anyone else, but this was the first I’d heard about ‘this‘ little gem…
JANUARY 24 (legislative day, JANUARY 3), 2013
Mrs. BOXER introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To establish minimum standards for States that allow the
carrying of concealed firearms.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa
2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Common Sense Con
5 cealed Firearms Permit Act of 2013’’.
6 SEC. 2. CONCEALED FIREARMS PERMITS.
7 (a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 44 of title 18, United
8 States Code, is amended by inserting after section 926C
9 the following:
1 ‘‘§ 926D. Concealed firearms permits
2 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Each State that allows residents
3 of the State to carry concealed firearms shall—
4 ‘‘(1) establish a process to issue permits to resi
5 dents of the State to carry concealed firearms; and
6 ‘‘(2) require that each resident of the State
7 seeking to carry a concealed firearm in the State ob
8 tain a permit through the process established under
9 paragraph (1).
10 ‘‘(b) REQUIREMENTS.—In establishing a process to
11 issue permits to carry concealed firearms under subsection
12 (a), a State shall—
13 ‘‘(1) ensure that a local law enforcement agency
14 participates in the process; and
15 ‘‘(2) at a minimum, require that an applicant
16 for a permit to carry a concealed firearm—
17 ‘‘(A) be a legal resident of the United
18 States;
19 ‘‘(B) be not less than 21 years of age;
20 ‘‘(C) demonstrate good cause for request
21 ing a concealed firearm permit; and
22 ‘‘(D) demonstrate that the applicant is
23 worthy of the public trust to carry a concealed
24 firearm in public.
25 ‘‘(c) LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY REPORT.—If a
26 State establishes a process under subsection (a) that al-
1 lows for an agency other than a law enforcement agency
2 to issue permits to carry concealed firearms, the process
3 shall require that—
4 ‘‘(1) a local law enforcement agency submit to
5 the agency responsible for issuing permits a written
6 report that describes whether the applicant meets
7 the standards of the State to carry a concealed fire
8 arm; and
9 ‘‘(2) the agency responsible for issuing permits
10 maintain a report submitted under paragraph (1) in
11 the file of the applicant.
12 ‘‘(d) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘local
13 law enforcement agency’ means a law enforcement agency
14 of the unit of local government with jurisdiction of the
15 area in which the applicant for a permit to carry a con
16 cealed firearm resides.
17 ‘‘(e) COMPLIANCE.—Not later than 270 days after
18 the date of enactment of this section, each State described
19 in subsection (a) shall be in compliance with this section.’’.
20 (b) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—
21 The table of sections for chapter 44 of title 18, United
22 States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relat
23 ing to section 926C the following:
‘‘926D. Concealed firearms permits.’’.
Lines 10-24 my highlight and underline…
And 18 USC 926C is HERE.
“MY” take I think this bill is proposing to take away states rights to “Shall Issue and replace it with a federal “Good & Substantial” definition.
To me it does this two ways, one it would now require a ‘good reason’, and it brings local police into the mix officially…
So basically, the states can remain shall issue by defining G&S to be ??? But the local LEOs also have to approve your app rather than at the State level. So a possibility would be let’s say Philly- Local police would always deny, where the rural places would continue to be shall issue.
Another problem is states that have NO wording in their state constitutions supporting 2A, e.g. Maryland, other than that the US Constitution is the law of the land. Depending on how they ‘parse’ that, it ‘could’ exclude the Bill of Rights, and poof, no 2A and no issue.
Am I being totally stupid here, or reading too much into this??? Or just overly paranoid???
