{"id":179675,"date":"2017-11-30T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T01:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/11\/30\/today-in-wicked-stupid-ideas\/"},"modified":"2017-11-30T20:39:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T01:39:00","slug":"today-in-wicked-stupid-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/11\/30\/today-in-wicked-stupid-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Wicked Stupid Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-11-29\/get-ready-for-concealed-guns-in-all-50-states\">Preempting state private carry laws with an NRA wet dream<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The National Rifle Association has called the concealed carry bill,  which would&nbsp;make it easier for&nbsp;gun owners to keep their firearms hidden  when crossing state lines,&nbsp;its \u201chighest legislative priority in  Congress.\u201d Despite concerns raised by Democrats about states\u2019 rights and  domestic violence, the Republican-controlled Congress has pushed the  proposal one step closer to becoming law.<\/p>\n<p>The House Judiciary  Committee late Wednesday voted 19-11 for the&nbsp;Concealed Carry Reciprocity  Act of 2017, which would amend the federal criminal code to allow the  concealed transport of handguns across state lines, so long as both  states allow it. States will not be able to impose their individual  requirements for a concealed carry license on armed travelers from other  states<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Republicans  rejected Democratic amendments that would ban violent offenders from  qualifying under the law, as well as a change that would have prevented  forum shopping, which means a New York resident barred from obtaining a  concealed carry permit could instead send away for one from somewhere  else. The bill, which has more than 200 co-sponsors, almost all  Republicans, now heads for the floor of&nbsp;the 435-member House. A similar  bill, with 38 Republican co-sponsors, is pending before the Senate  Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Moms Demand Action, a gun control group that attended Wednesday\u2019s hearing, has also attacked the bill, arguing it \u201cis a chaotic and dangerous policy that would gut every state\u2019s gun laws and make our communities less safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group argues that the bill \u201cwould effectively turn the weakest state\u2019s laws into nationwide laws\u201d because conceal carry laws vary state by state. For example, convicted stalkers are banned from concealed carry in some states, but not all, and the age for concealed carry also varies. In the event the bill passes, a Georgia permit, a state that allows abusive partners to carry hidden firearms, would become effective in New York, a state that currently doesn\u2019t recognize any other state\u2019s conceal carry permits.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;We live in an insane world.<\/p>\n<p>They want to turn the whole country into Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preempting state private carry laws with an NRA wet dream: The National Rifle Association has called the concealed carry bill, which would&nbsp;make it easier for&nbsp;gun owners to keep their firearms hidden when crossing state lines,&nbsp;its \u201chighest legislative priority in Congress.\u201d Despite concerns raised by Democrats about states\u2019 rights and domestic violence, the Republican-controlled Congress has &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[364,531,449,406],"class_list":["post-179675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-evil","tag-gun-laws","tag-legislation","tag-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}