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Two North Carolina Gun Bills to be Considered Next Week!

Friday, April 24, 2009

Please Contact the Members of the Senate Judiciary II Committee Today!

Two bills of vital interest to NRA members are scheduled to be heard in the Senate Judiciary II Committee on Thursday, April 30. 

The first, Senate Bill 928, is a Castle Doctrine self-defense bill.  This legislation, introduced by State Senator Doug Berger (D-7), would ensure that all law-abiding citizens have a right to use force, including deadly force, against violent attackers in their homes, as well as anywhere else they have a right to be.  S928 ensures that those afforded the protections under this bill would be immune from both criminal prosecution as well as civil action. 

The other bill, Senate Bill 987, seeks to expand the current law regulating the “safe” storage of firearms.  S987, introduced by State Senator Malcolm Graham (D-40), would impose regulations that would greatly diminish the ability of law-abiding, responsible gun owners to keep firearms in the home in a state suitable for defensive use. 

Basically, the only ways to ensure one does not run afoul of the law proposed under S987 would be to have every firearm in the home “kept unloaded in a locked box or container, with the ammunition stored separately,” or to have all firearms “kept unloaded and equipped with a tamper-resistant mechanical lock or other safety device.”  Either “option” would render useless any firearms kept in the home for personal protection.  The key to firearms being suitable for personal protection is to have them readily available to law-abiding, responsible gun owners.  These two storage “options” would add precious time to the points between when someone realizes they need a firearm to defend his or her life or the lives of loved ones, and when that firearm is actually in a condition when it can be used for such a purpose.  Unlocking a secured firearm, then loading it, can take as long as several minutes, which are minutes violent criminals can easily exploit to their advantage. 

Please contact the members of the Senate Judiciary II Committee TODAY and respectfully urge them to support S928 and to oppose S987.  Contact information can be found below.

State Senator Fletcher L. Hartsell, Jr. (R-36) - Chair
(919) 733-7223
[email protected]

State Senator Austin M. Allran (R-42) – Vice Chair
(919) 733-5876
[email protected]

State Senator Don Vaughan (D-27) – Vice Chair
(919)733-5856
[email protected]

State Senator Ed Jones (D-4) – Vice Chair
(919) 715-3032
[email protected]

State Senator Tom Apodaca (R-48)
(919) 733-5745
[email protected]

State Senator Bob Atwater (D-18)
(919) 715-3036
[email protected]

State Senator Stan Bingham (R-33)
(919) 733-5665
[email protected]

State Senator Charlie Smith Dannelly (D-38)
(919) 733-5955
[email protected]

State Senator Joe Sam Queen (D-47)
(919) 733-3460
[email protected]

State Senator Doug Berger (D-7)
(919) 715-8363
[email protected]

State Senator Julia Boseman (D-9)
(919) 715-2525
[email protected]

State Senator Katie G. Dorsett (D-28)
(919) 715-3042
[email protected]

State Senator James Forrester (R-41)
(919) 715-3050
[email protected]

State Senator W. Edward (Eddie) Goodall (R-35)
(919) 733-7659
[email protected]

State Senator Jim Jacumin (R-44)
(919) 715-7823
[email protected]

State Senator John Snow (D-50)
(919) 733-5875
[email protected]

State Senator A. B. Swindell (D-11)
(919) 715-3030
[email protected]

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