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Firearm law reform and law enforcement safety act get NRA support:
Congressman J. Randy Forbes (VA-04) announced today that the National Rifle Association of America (NRA) has announced its support for his bill, H.R. 3752, to modernize federal firearms laws to increase public safety and ensure proper protection for law enforcement officers. The Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (LEOSA) Improvements Act of 2009 would improve current law to permit qualified retired law enforcement officers to carry concealed firearms.
I think the law enforcement officers safety act of 2007 covers the latter.
January 13th, 2010 at 11:24 am
Maybe it does away with the requirement to get a “good letter” upon retiring? It also seems to expand the definition of “police” to include Amtrak and the Armed Forces among other things. Haven’t read it all yet.
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January 13th, 2010 at 11:27 am
bundle this up with something that actually restores rights to ordinary citizens and we may have a winner.
January 13th, 2010 at 11:54 am
Am I correct in thinking that the idea is to get national concealed carry for retired police, and then use that to springboard national concealed carry for everyone else?
January 13th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
It cleans up the retired officer qualification process, AND expands the net to cover more people.
This bill includes former cops who did ten or more years as a cop and seperated “honorably” or “in good standing”, even if they didn’t retire, down from teh existing requirement of 15 years.
And it specifies that these former cops can use a private firearms instructor who tests them to the state standards (which are generally pretty minimal), they are not forced to try and do it through their former agency (which some interpretations would allow departments to do), in absence of state law to the contrary.) Allowing departemnts to not “find time” to qualify their former officers (even at tehir own expense) make sit entirely too easy to shut down this act via a backdoor. OTH, allowing the former cop to use a private instructor (again at the cop’s own expense) to meet the state LEO standards not only avoids this, but it relieves the (unfounded, but loud) concerns that these former cops might be using up limited range time.
January 13th, 2010 at 8:32 pm
The original bill, although a good concept was hugely flawed in how it was to be put into effect.
I’m a cop in Michigan. Before this law, there was no standard set my the state for firearms qualifications, each department came up with their own. So it was basically impossible to comply with the federal law.
After they passed this federal law, then the state made up a minimum qualification course, which is pretty easy. But it is still a PITA for the retired guys to do what they are supposed to do.
January 14th, 2010 at 3:04 am
Huh uh, retired cops and active cops all just citizens. The laws we obey, they should obey.