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WTHR - Indiana Considers Ditching License Requirement for Guns in Cars
House Bill 1546
EDIT:
It looks like Channel 13's Kevin Rader has a brilliant understanding of this issue to start - "It is becoming all too familiar: a police officer makes a routine stop that escalates into gunfire, serious injury and or death. The recent incident with IMPD Officer David Moore is the latest example which makes Tuesday's debate at the Indiana Statehouse all the more curious."
Yes. According to Mr. Rader, it sounds like an innocent, law-abiding man gunned down Officer Moore. He makes it sounds like Thomas Hardy (who lost his right to carry a firearm a long, long time ago) wasn't committing a crime just by having the gun on him.
House Bill 1546
Handgun possession. Allows a person to carry a handgun on or about the person's body without being licensed to carry a handgun if: (1) the person is in or on property, or in a vehicle, that is owned, leased, rented, or otherwise legally controlled by the person; (2) the person is lawfully present in or on private property, or in a vehicle, that is owned, leased, rented, or otherwise legally controlled by another person; (3) the person is carrying the handgun at a shooting range, while attending a firearms instructional course, or while engaged in a legal hunting activity; or (4) the handgun is unloaded and securely wrapped. (Current law provides that a person who does not possess a valid handgun license may not carry a handgun in any vehicle or on or about the person's body unless the person: (1) is in the person's dwelling or fixed place of business or on the person's property; or (2) is carrying the handgun unloaded and in a secure wrapper from the place where the handgun was purchased to the person's dwelling or fixed place of business, between a handgun repair shop and the person's dwelling or fixed place of business, or from one dwelling or fixed place of business to another.) Specifies that a person who has been convicted of domestic battery may not possess or carry a handgun unless the person's right to possess a firearm has been restored by a court.
EDIT:
It looks like Channel 13's Kevin Rader has a brilliant understanding of this issue to start - "It is becoming all too familiar: a police officer makes a routine stop that escalates into gunfire, serious injury and or death. The recent incident with IMPD Officer David Moore is the latest example which makes Tuesday's debate at the Indiana Statehouse all the more curious."
Yes. According to Mr. Rader, it sounds like an innocent, law-abiding man gunned down Officer Moore. He makes it sounds like Thomas Hardy (who lost his right to carry a firearm a long, long time ago) wasn't committing a crime just by having the gun on him.
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