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… but I think he’s confused about the bill.
According to a press release on his website, he says the following:
“This legislation prohibits guns in classrooms, dorms, and administrative buildings on college campuses. Additionally, this legislation gives bar owners the authority to prohibit guns in their establishments. Following my threat of a veto, we worked closely with law enforcement officials across the state so that changes were made to the original legislation. This ensured that permitting is still required for a concealed carry permit and is implemented at the local level.”
– Governor Pat McCrory
See, the trouble is that HB937 never, at any point in it’s travels through the legislature, included any text about changing the way that concealed carry permits are issued through the Sheriffs Dept.
The first time I read this, I gave Gov. McCrory the benefit of the doubt, thinking that he just inserted the wrong word. He’s a busy guy, so those things happen.
However, if you read the next paragraph on the press release, there is a quote from Guilford County Sheriff BJ Barnes that says the following:
“Like many North Carolinians, I am a strong supporter of the 2nd Amendment. As a 34-year veteran of law enforcement here in North Carolina, I believe it’s important that Sherriff’s offices continue to administer the certification process for concealed carry permits. I would like to thank Governor Pat McCrory for his efforts on behalf of public safety in ensuring this common sense provision remained in HB 937.”
– Guilford County Sherriff BJ Barnes
Sheriff Barnes was quite outspoken about the bill when it left the Senate with the PPP repeal text, he knows what the actual wording of the bill was, and he knows the difference between a PPP and a CHP.
This concerns me. If McCrory is not making the distinction between a concealed carry permit and a pistol purchase permit, was the removal of the PPP repeal text from the bill the result of bad information? Could there be a reason why both McCrory and Barnes are using the incorrect term? Am I totally wearing a tinfoil hat making mountains out of molehills?
Bet you a beer, there will be a revision to the Governor’s website shortly. And, of course, an explanation that involves someone who made a mistake.
It’s worse than that: *everything* he says about the bill is false.
“This legislation prohibits guns in classrooms, dorms, and administrative buildings on college campuses.” No it doesn’t: those things were already prohibited, and HB937 didn’t change that.
“Additionally, this legislation gives bar owners the authority to prohibit guns in their establishments.” No it doesn’t: private-property owners already had the authority to do that, and HB937 didn’t change that.
I find it interesting that McCrory is essentially trumpeting all of the gun-rights restrictions that the bill didn’t change, rather than giving any mention at all to the restrictions it lifted.
Maybe he’s just being a politician, but it’s almost like he thinks HB937 is a gun-control bill.
So is this legislation now in affect? Past posts said something about it going into affect in October… thank you for digging into this and spreading the word! And I was thinking everythihng that Bob posted… it really makes you question everything you see in the news.
It goes into effect on October 1.