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Republicans revive bid for Indiana handgun permit repeal

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republican legislators on Wednesday revived a proposal aimed at repealing Indiana’s handgun permit requirement that has faced objections from major police organizations.

The proposal had been sidelined last week by Republican Senate leaders following a Senate committee approving an amendment that supporters complained completely gutted the bill. That action came after State Police Superintendent Doug Carter was pointed in saying that if lawmakers “support this bill, you will not be supporting us.”

Republicans on a House-Senate conference committee on Wednesday inserted the permit repeal provisions, approved by the House in January, into an unrelated bill.

Committee Chairman Sen. Eric Koch, a Republican from Bedford, allowed no testimony on the bill, saying afterward that the issue had been “thoroughly vetted” through lengthy committee public hearings earlier in the legislative session.

The House-approved bill would allow anyone age 18 or older to carry a handgun in public except for reasons such as having a felony conviction or a dangerous mental illness. Supporters argue the permit requirement undermines Second Amendment protections.

Leaders of the state Fraternal Order of Police, police chiefs association and county prosecutors association have been critical of the repeal proposal, arguing that eliminating the permit system would strip police of a screening tool for identifying dangerous people who shouldn’t have guns.

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Slascker06 March 3, 2022 at 9:19 am

How do the police screen criminals carrying firearms illegally???? Note that in the hearing many regular officers testified FOR the bill while only the political stooge “Leaders” testified against it. A few miles a way to the east, the Ohio Legislature sent such a bill to the governor for signature yesterday. What is wrong with the Indiana Senate??? It is a handful of obstructionists that need to be replaced along with the head of the ISP, Mr. Carter.

The freedom loving people of Ft. Wayne need to take a very long look at Lizzy the obstructionist state senator the next time they vote.

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