Rep. Steve Martin on why certain 2A bills don't get heard

[vvvvvvv]

Rep. Steve Martin, who is the current chair of the House Public Safety Committee (and was - in his words - the practical chair during the last few years of Rep. Tibbs tenure), was on NewstalkKCLI this morning. One of the questions asked early in the interview by Rep. Harold Wright was about why some gun bills don't get heard in committee.

Martin described his "Martin Doctrine" as (and I'm paraphrasing because I don't have the actual audio) "advancing bills that advance 2A and dropping bills that dumb down 2A", with Constitutional carry and travelers' exemption used as examples of "dumbing down".

Figure there might be some on here interested in that. It's probably a good thing that Martin is retiring and not running for re-election.

 

[Old Fart]

With that standard he better start dropping all bills considering some of the dummies in this state.

 

[TallPrairie]

Martin's helped to get a lot of good stuff passed. He's a classic 85% guy on this issue -- high NRA rating, and is overall 85% of the way there.

One blessing of being a gun rights supporter in Oklahoma is that the "swing" legislators you need to persuade in order to get stuff done are people like Rep. Martin, not squishy suburban Dems* like in Pennsylvania or something.


* And BTW our state also has some legit pro-gun Dems, which you won't find everywhere either in this day and age.

 

[rawhide]

About a dozen pro-gun bills did make it to the Senate where they are likely to die in committees if they don't hear from pro-gun people. As of yesterday only the NFA bill made the agenda.

 

[LightningCrash]

Steve Martin also sponsored or authored some legislation to allow police to stop vehicles for "insurance checks."
It didn't pass, I wrote Scott Martin to voice my opposition, but Scott voted yea on it.

Two Martins I can do without. Good thing Steve is retiring.