U.S. House of Representatives Passes “Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act Improvements Act”
On it’s way to the president for signature. This bill “fixes” issues with the original bill.
I wonder if, in practice, the law is still not valid in NYC?
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September 30th, 2010 at 11:12 am
Like you and me, only more better.
September 30th, 2010 at 1:22 pm
NYC will ignore it.
September 30th, 2010 at 2:01 pm
As far as I know NYC courts have upheld this law.
September 30th, 2010 at 6:54 pm
Why wouldn’t it be legal in NYC? It’s Federal Law, and last time I looked, NYC was in the Federal part of the US.
I’m glad it’s law, and I understand the frustration of others who think that everyone should be covered under the act. Truly, I understand, and in large part I agree.
This might be one way to further the 2nd Amendment, through amending and modifying this single act. The improvement passed today reduces the time limitations to 10 years on the force, with some other caveats. I can see in another few years, that some other citizens might be included. Like people who have had a state CCW permit for 10 years.
That would be interesting.
September 30th, 2010 at 9:34 pm
Now the standard is their own agency or state standards as taught by private instructors will qualify them nationwide. That’s edging quite close to the carry regs for most CCW licenses.
As was noted, if the justification is “more armed, trained good guys out there” then that makes the “how long have they been doing it” question spurious. If they can drop it from 15 to 10, there isn’t much reason to go from 10 to 5 to 3 to 1.
Assuming reason prevails (yeah, I know), that effectively becomes “meet a state agencies requirement and you’re good to go”.
Which makes the “well, why NOT let civvies who get the same one-time background check, do the same hours of deadly force / shooting training LEOs get in the academy and shoot the qual course every year carry under the same law” argument pretty pursuasive.
But I think state by state reciprocity will happen the right way before that is necessary.
September 30th, 2010 at 9:35 pm
“…to NOT go from 10 to 5…”
October 1st, 2010 at 1:00 pm
What is funny is that many police groups are opposed to college campus carry because they claim having armed students on the scene will make a bad situation more confusing for responding officers.
Those same police organizations then support retired and off duty officers with weapons. How does that not make the scene just as confusing? Why can a police officer from Washington carry a gun into a bar in Florida, and I, as a resident of Florida, cannot?
Our chances of being the victim of an attack that would require a lethal response are identical. He has no more arrest power here than I do. So explain how this is anything other than elitist horse puckey.
October 3rd, 2010 at 1:59 pm
Hurray! Additional codification as a second class citizen!
By the way to the theorists that this will lead to the eventual nationalization of second class citizen CCW, it’s sure working like that for getting new made machineguns for us too. Oh, wait…