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SB 347, introduced by state Senator Dave Sypolt (R-14), would recognize your right to legally carry a concealed firearm without the requirement of having to obtain a costly and time-restrictive Concealed Handgun License (CHL). This is a necessary update to concealed carry statutes in West Virginia, allowing law-abiding gun owners the ability to protect themselves and their loved ones. In West Virginia, it is already legal to carry a firearm openly, as long as the individual is not prohibited by law from possessing a firearm. However, under current law, if a firearm becomes covered by a coat or if a woman prefers to carry a firearm for self-protection in her purse, he or she would need to possess a concealed pistol permit.
SB 347 gives you the freedom to choose the best method of carrying, based on your attire, gender and/or physical attributes. Also critically important, this legislation would keep in place the current permitting system so that people who obtain a permit could still enjoy the reciprocity agreements that West Virginia has with other states across the country.
It also puts officers in danger because you'll have a lot more people out here carrying weapons that may not know how to use them, how to unload them, how to load them properly.
On the financial side of the measure, Keith Morgan, president of the West Virginia Citizens Defense League, said the only change the law would make would be the removal of a $100 fee to conceal a firearm. Police said the $100 fee often helps pay for bullet proof vests.
originally posted by: Sremmos80
Costly and time restrictive, hmmm seems like that is not a reasonable reasoning when it comes to ID's for voting...
It is always "Who doesn't have the time and money to get a simple ID".
I probably just don't get it though, guns are different I bet.
originally posted by: seeker1963
Do you have to wait weeks or months to get an ID to vote?
WOW!
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: seeker1963
Do you have to wait weeks or months to get an ID to vote?
WOW!
Or are you limited with the number of times you can vote with a particular ID like I am with a handgun permit?
originally posted by: seeker1963
Just a thought, but perhaps our friend Sremmos has made a point to actually make voting as restrictive as purchasing a weapon!
Politicians sure have proven just as or more dangerous than a person with a weapon, don't you think?
originally posted by: Sremmos80
Costly and time restrictive, hmmm seems like that is not a reasonable reasoning when it comes to ID's for voting...
It is always "Who doesn't have the time and money to get a simple ID".
I probably just don't get it though, guns are different I bet.
Federal law requires federally licensed firearms dealers (but not private sellers) to initiate a background check on the purchaser prior to sale of a firearm. Federal law provides states with the option of serving as a state “point of contact” and conducting their own background checks using state, as well as federal, records and databases, or having the checks performed by the FBI using only the federal National Instant Criminal Background Check System (“NICS”) database. (Note that state files are not always included in the federal database.)
West Virginia is not a point of contact state for NICS. West Virginia has no law requiring firearms dealers to initiate a background check prior to transferring a firearm. In West Virginia, all firearms transfers by licensed dealers are processed directly through the FBI, which enforces the federal prohibitions referenced above.
smartgunlaws.org...
Private firearms transfers (i.e., transfers by individuals who are not licensed dealers) are not subject to a background check requirement in West Virginia
The Brady Center, a pro-gun legislation group, gave West Virginia a rating of only four out of 100 on its annual scorecard of how stringently each state controls the purchase of guns. As a result of such lax regulations, the number of homicides involving firearms jumped from 27 to 43 from 2010 to 2011, while the number of aggravated assaults with firearms increased from 339 to 780, representing an increase of over 130 percent, according to the FBI Uniform Crime Report.
originally posted by: Sremmos80
Have your gun, just go get he license if you want to conceal it.