PA Bill Number: HB2235
Title: Providing for regulation of the meat packing and food processing industry by creating facility health and safety committees in the workplace; ...
Description: Providing for regulation of the meat packing and food processing industry by creating facility health and safety committees in the workplace; ... ...
Last Action: Referred to LABOR AND INDUSTRY
Last Action Date: Apr 25, 2024
Bill Would Extend Second Amendment Rights to DC Residents :: 02/23/2017
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Feb. 17 introduced S. 162, The Second Amendment Enforcement Act of 2017, that would preempt the District of Columbia Council from enacting the city’s harsh gun control measures and force the District’s laws to conform to federal law governing firearm sales.
Rubio said the bill allows District citizens to own firearms for sporting and lawful defense. Jordan said the proposal “would make Washington, D.C. a safer place for law abiding citizens.”
The bill would enable residents to obtain firearms from licensed dealers in Maryland and Virginia; repeal the District’s gun registration requirement system; allow a more permissive system for residents to possess firearms. It would limit the District to the standard NCIS background check, make firearm training optional, and allow private entities and public buildings to determine their firearm policies.
D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton said by re-introducing the bill, which was initially filed in 2015, Rubio is “trampling on D.C. home rule” and should “focus on the needs of his own constituents.”
“We intend to keep Sen. Rubio from walking over the principle of local control over local affairs while he uses federal authority to overturn the District’s duly-enacted local laws,” Norton said in a statement. “As the nation’s capital, we have enacted gun safety laws that match the needs of our unique local jurisdiction, which hosts high-profile events, such as the presidential inauguration and houses high-profile federal officials and foreign dignitaries.”
Before the Heller v. Washington DC ruling, the District had some of the most strident gun regulations laws in the country. In fact, a resident wasn’t allowed to own a handgun unless they were active or retired in the military and owned a firearm before the advent of Home Rule in 1973.
Bearing Arm’s Pamela Jablonski wrote that Rubio is focusing on the needs of his constituents — which include Washington residents and all those who visit the nation’s capital because it is a federal district.
“The Second Amendment Enforcement Act will put guns in the hands of the good guys,” she wrote. “So, when the criminals hear their targets may be armed in order to protect themselves, it could be the game-changer that helps to deter crime in D.C.”
For more, go to:
— Rubio and his Resurrection of The Second Amendment Enforcement Act
— S. 162: The Second Amendment Enforcement Act
— In One Week, The GOP Has Moved To Upend Three Different D.C. Laws
— Alarm Over GOP Meddling in D.C.’s Gun Laws
— NRA Supports Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act
http://www.outdoorlife.com/gun-news-week-bill-would-extend-second-amendment-rights-to-dc-residents
