I am heading down to Toledo to attend and sure would like to see a couple of dozen fellow PRO-GUN supporters in the crowd.

The IFC needs your help. The Iowa Senate leadership is stalling the Omnibus Gun Bill once again. Senator, Steve Sodders, is a member of the Senate leadership team and plays a key role in scheduling which bills get a vote and which ones do not.

We need you to attend two public meetings being held by Senator Sodders this Saturday (April 25), and speak up about the Omnibus Gun Bill. The information for these public forums are as follows:

• Saturday, April 25 at 1:30: Legislative Listening Post in Tama at the Meskwaki Nation Tribal Center, 349 Meskwaki Road.
• Saturday, April 25 at 12 noon: Legislative Listening Post in Toledo at the El Campesino Restaurant, 401 W Highway 30.

thanks

"The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight."  --  Theodore Roosevelt

I will see if I can get to the one in Toledo.

Please someone show up and give them an ear full

Wired & Bionic-

Check your PM box.

If any one else is able to make it out tomorrow, drop me a line.

Good luck guys!

So anyone show up?

Yes several of us showed up.

And what did they have to say

i got feedback from several people on this.  

YOU GUYS WERE GREAT!  while i'm not sure i'm shocked at steve's answers, and frankly a politician's word means less daily, the fact you guys were able to get out and go make your expectations known is huge.  THAT is activism!

very cool guys.  thanks!

Very cool thank you to whoever showed up

What was Stodders' answer? Blowing up our skirts? Pissing on us and telling us it's raining? A good old-fashioned political slow-roll? Or something possibly honest and positive?

double talk about IGO making things 'toxic' etc.  they can pass this thing right now.  there are 13 Ds ready to say yes and all the republicans except IGO's new pet (bertrand).  that's 3/4 of the senate, just like 3/4s of the house passed it.  TWICE...

all we have to do it is get opportunity to vote.  THE VOTES ARE SOLIDLY THERE....

Aaah. I'll take "Notifying us that someone else is pissing on us, then pissing on us some more, and telling us it's raining" with a side order of "Slow Roll" for 300, Bob.

I went to the toledo mettign and his answer for sf427 there was he is worried about Stand Your Ground stuff getting put into the bill and it becoming a bad vote.

 

That's not a problem, all IGO and their pets ever do in these kind of situations is try to force a "procedural vote" to "suspend the rules" to allow them to append non-germain legislation. Then everyone votes that the IGO motion is out of order / not germain. Then the main bill gets voted on.
Oh, and then IGO blabs about the end of the world, send us money.

All stodders/gronstol has to do it stop blocking it, let it go to the floor vote, let IGO sing the fail song like every year, and then pass it.

He also mentioned exactly that. So I am not sure what is up.

 

It sounded like the biggest issue the anti's have with the bill is the age for parents and kids with handguns. I pointed out that I was like 6 when my dad taught me how to shoot and he said he has heard that over and over and completely agrees that it should just go away but some groups are apparently pains in the ass.

Not to mention there's 40 other states that allow kids to shoot whenever their parents see fit. ..

Yes, myself and a shooting buddy made it to the Toledo meeting.  7 citizens there to talk to Senator Sodders, 6 of us were there to support SF427.

Short version is the house and senate are way off on the budget and this will likely extend the session for several weeks and take up the all of their time. Senator Sodders thought it unlikely the omnibus bill would get discussed till after the state budget was ironed out.

He also said the IGO is pissing off the senators that are sitting on the fence concerning SF427 with their all or nothing tactics. I can only hope they see the light soon.

I got a hold of Pete Holden the coach of the Traer Scholastic Pistol Program and he showed up.  I think his input on the age limits was very well received by Sodders.

In the mean time, we all need to keep up the cordial emails and phone calls to our state senators asking for SF427 to be scheduled for a vote.

Greg

CKnugget, were you one of the guys heading to the suppressor shoot last Saturday after the meeting with Sodders?

Greg

Thank you

Yeah.  I rode with bionicsniper and headed event afterwards.