HJR1009 Alert!!

[rawhide]

Lame duck or not the calls do make a difference.

 

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

Article 2 § 26. Keeping and bearing of arms – Fundamental status – Specific regulations

A. The fundamental right of each individual citizen to keep and to bear arms, including handguns, rifles, shotguns, knives, nonlethal defensive weapons and other arms in common use, as well as ammunition and the components of arms and ammunition, for security, self-defense, lawful hunting and recreation, in aid of the civil power when thereunto lawfully summoned, or for any other legitimate purpose shall not be infringed. Any regulation of this right shall be subject to strict scrutiny.

B. This section shall not prevent the Legislature from prohibiting the possession of arms by convicted felons, those adjudicated as mentally incompetent, or those who have been involuntarily committed in any mental institution.

C. No law shall impose registration, or special taxation upon the keeping of arms, including the acquisition, ownership, possession, or transfer of arms, ammunition, or the components of arms or ammunition.

Strict scrutiny would a HUGE win for us. Makes it very difficult to justify any law that intrudes upon that right, and even if the Feds eviscerate the 2A under Hillary, states always have the ability to provide citizens with greater protections, and this would do it.

I wonder if the convicts and those deemed mentally ill can petition for reinstatement on the grounds of this new bill....
ie wrongfully convicted and those with PTSD

Having PTSD is not the same thing as being adjudicated "incompetent". That requires a judge to make a finding the person is "incompetent". Being in treatment for depression, PTSD, bi-polar disorder and the like doesn't necessarily make a person "incompetent".

 

[twoguns?]

No, but it will/may put them on a list, that maybe a Judge will have to get them off
I would just as soon not have to have a Judge make those decisions.....but it would be nice to have something to back it up...

 

[CHenry]

This HJR must pass the Rules Committee by April 6 and then the Senate floor to be on the general election ballot in November.
Senator Justice appears to be succumbing to pressure from Boren and Everytown.
Please contact Senator Ron Justice at: (405) 521-5537 or [email protected] . Calls carry more weight than emails.

It passed the rules committee!
http://www.oklegislature.gov/Billinfo.aspx?Bill=HJR1009

 

[FRISKY]

Great news!

 

[rawhide]

Good news!

 

[Jack T.]

So now we need to call Bingman to get it heard on the floor?

 

[Fredkrueger100]

Strict scrutiny would a HUGE win for us. Makes it very difficult to justify any law that intrudes upon that right, and even if the Feds eviscerate the 2A under Hillary, states always have the ability to provide citizens with greater protections, and this would do it.



Having PTSD is not the same thing as being adjudicated "incompetent". That requires a judge to make a finding the person is "incompetent". Being in treatment for depression, PTSD, bi-polar disorder and the like doesn't necessarily make a person "incompetent".

Correct you are. My sisters ex boyfriend was in the marines for a couple of years back in the 90's. He hurt his hand somehow and got partial disability. Even though he didn't need it. So he gets prescribed pain pills and he abuses the heck out of them. He is also an alcoholic. He recently told my sister that he doesn't work for tinker anymore because he is on full disability. And it's not from his hand. He claims to have PTSD even though he NEVER went to war or did anything to give him that. He puts on a big show to the doctors. He even told my sister when they were still together that he was trying to get full disability because of mental problems. Well obviously it works. And the point of this is, he had a butt load of guns. And he passes the background check every time. He is the last person who needs a gun. Much less about 50 of them.

 

[tRidiot]

I have seen the VA send people ridiculous amounts of pain medicine through the mail. Seens lots of old WWII and Korea and Vietnam vets who get massive amounts of the stuff, and then their family members steal it from them... it's a terrible situation. The VA is so messed up in some ways. I've seen a lot of old guys who don't want to use the VA system anymore, they'd rather utilize their Medicare and private insurance secondaries.

 

[Gabriel42]

I have seen the VA send people ridiculous amounts of pain medicine through the mail. Seens lots of old WWII and Korea and Vietnam vets who get massive amounts of the stuff, and then their family members steal it from them... it's a terrible situation. The VA is so messed up in some ways. I've seen a lot of old guys who don't want to use the VA system anymore, they'd rather utilize their Medicare and private insurance secondaries.

I believe they have discontinued the practice of sending Schedule 2 narcotics through the mail and those are now required to be filled at a local pharmacy.