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U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) has co-sponsored bipartisan legislation to ensure federal and state authorities accurately report relevant criminal history records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).
The bill, called the Fix NICS Act, penalizes federal agencies who fail to properly report relevant records. It also incentivizes states to improve their overall reporting and directs more federal funding to the accurate reporting of domestic violence records.
North Carolina resident Brian Fletcher, a utility tower climber, took a crew to Trenton, N.J., in June 2015 to help with storm-related emergency repairs. A police officer approached him while he was in a parking lot awaiting a work order, and Fletcher followed concealed carry protocol: He told the officer he had a gun in the vehicle and a permit to carry it.
A proposed bill that would require law enforcement to recognize concealed carry gun permits across state lines passed the House Judiciary Committee this week.
Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC), who sponsored the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, or H.R. 38, has taken to social media and conventional news channels to drum up support for the legislation, claiming it won’t make it easier for people to get guns or affect which types of firearms they can use. He said he hopes it will pass the greater House of Representatives by the end of the calendar year.
House Republicans are preparing to vote in the days ahead to loosen gun laws, hopeful the optics are friendlier now that the national political conversation has turned away from the recent mass shootings in Las Vegas and Sutherland Springs, Texas.
The current Republican gambit is to bring three bills to the House floor this month as a single package.
U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson is touting the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act as “a simple, common-sense bill that seeks to protect law-abiding citizens.”
The bill, which passed the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, would allow people with a state-issued concealed carry permit to travel across state lines with authorized firearms.
States vary widely in their respective laws regarding the concealed carrying of a firearm. What is permissible in one might not be in another. Hudson’s legislation essentially equals the enforcement issue.
House Republicans are aiming to bring gun legislation that would increase concealed carry rights to the House floor in the near future.
Republican leaders in the House took a whip count of the plan, known as the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017, on Thursday.
Leaders felt the measure had enough support to bring to the floor.
The measure would allow licensed gun owners to carry their firearms in other states that have their own concealed carry laws.
A bill sponsored by U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson to allow people with concealed-carry gun permits to carry firearms into other states that allow concealed carry was passed by the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
The bipartisan bill, known as the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017, has been called one of the most important pro-Second Amendment measures in Congress. It’s among the first pieces of gun legislation since this fall’s mass shootings.
A national gun-carry reciprocity bill passed through the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
The Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017 passed through the markup process in the committee by a 19-11 vote. It now awaits a vote from the full House, which could come before the end of the year.
The committee vote represents to most significant movement that Congress has yet to make on major gun-rights legislation since the 2016 election.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The gun debate is heating up in the wake of this fall’s mass shootings.
Two new measures with backing from North Carolina members of Congress are being introduced.
The first bill would require states to recognize concealed carry permits from other states. It is sponsored by Republican Congressman Richard Hudson.
The second updates the federal background check system after problems were found following a mass shooting at a Texas church earlier this month.