The shall-issue concealed carry bill is stalled in the Senate Inter-Governmental Affairs Committee.  Please e-mail and/or fax the Chairman, SENATOR DAVID IGE, [email protected], fax 586-6231, and politely ask him to schedule the bill for a hearing.  Follow up with a phone call to his office staff at 586-6230 and ask if the Senator has seen your message yet.  It must be scheduled and heard in his committee by next week, or it's dead for the year.

Suggested basic language, and add your own:

    Dear Senator Ige,

    Please schedule Senate Bill 2531 for a hearing.

Most sincerely yours,
(your name here)

MSG sent.

He Doenst look like a Pro 2nd Politician.  
More a "Local born & raised Libreal DemoCrap" from the 60s  

I sent my letter, and will call friday.

The Senate committee on Intergovernmental Affairs has scheduled a public hearing on Tuesday 2-14-06 at 3:00 pm in conference room 225 regarding SB2531.  I wont make it due to it being a Tuesday, the only day Im tied up between 1-4pm for meetings that happen every week.  Someone put in a good word for me.

HRA needs WOMEN, NF your wife needs to go.
They dont need you!

She needs my car, and a babysitter; thats the problem with that one.

Wife went today, turns out the hearing was yesterday and they were reading testimonies today or something to that effect, so sending my wife on valentines day pretty much was pointless.  Glad they let everybody know their schedules beforehand.  

Date
1/25/2006  Introduced and passed First Reading.

1/30/2006  Referred to IGA, JHW.

2/10/2006  The committee(s) on IGA has scheduled a public hearing on 02-14-06 at 3:00 pm in conference room 225.

2/14/2006  The committee(s) on IGA deferred the measure until 02-16-06 at 2:45 pm in conference room 225.

What the ....? So they will defer this till it dies?

Quoted: What the ....? So they will defer this till it dies?

Probably, although my wife did say that Senator Slom tore some asses pretty good, got some liberal anti-gun attorney and a cop representing HPD.

A Federal Reciprocity Bill will allow any person with a valid concealed firearm carrying permit access to all 50 States. " it would require the states to recognize each others` carry permits, just as they recognize drivers licenses."  Regardless of passage of Senate Bill 2531 , concealed carrying of firearms will be avalible in the State of Hawaii.

Concealed Carry - States rights issue or individual rights issue?

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The Stearns Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Bill

U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns` (R-Fla.) national Right-to-Carry (RTC) reciprocity bill, H.R. 4547, would allow any person with a valid concealed firearm carrying permit or license, issued by a state, to carry a concealed firearm in any other state, as follows: In states that issue concealed firearm permits, a state`s laws governing where concealed firearms may be carried would apply within its own borders. In states that do not issue carry permits, a federal "bright-line" standard would permit carrying in places other than police stations; courthouses; public polling places; meetings of state, county, or municipal governing bodies; schools; passenger areas of airports; and certain other locations. H.R. 4547 would also apply to D.C., Puerto Rico and U.S. territories. The bill would not create a federal licensing system; it would require the states to recognize each others` carry permits, just as they recognize drivers` licenses and carry permits held by armored car guards. Rep. Stearns has introduced such legislation since 1995.

* Today, 46 states have laws permitting concealed carry, in some circumstances. Thirty-eight states, accounting for two-thirds of the U.S. population, have RTC laws. Thirty-four have "shall issue" permit laws (including Alaska, which also allows carrying without a permit), three have fairly administered "discretionary issue" permit laws, and Vermont allows carrying without a permit. (Eight states have restrictive discretionary issue laws.) Most RTC states have adopted their laws during the last decade.
* Citizens with carry permits are more law-abiding than the general public. Only 0.02% of more than a half million permits issued by Florida have been revoked because of firearm crimes by permit holders. Similarly low percentages of permits have been revoked in Texas, Virginia, and other RTC states that keep such statistics. RTC is widely supported by law enforcement officials and groups.
* States with RTC laws have lower violent crime rates. On average, 21% lower total violent crime, 28% lower murder, 43% lower robbery, and 13% lower aggravated assault, compared to the rest of the country. Nine of the 10 states with the lowest violent crime rates are RTC states. (Data: FBI.)
* Crime declines in states with RTC laws. Since adopting RTC in 1987, Florida`s total violent crime and murder rates have dropped 31% and 52%, respectively. Texas` violent crime and murder rates have dropped 19% and 33%, respectively, since its 1996 RTC law. (Data: FBI.)
* The right of self-defense is fundamental, and has been recognized in law for centuries. The Declaration of Independence asserts that "life" is among the unalienable rights of all people. The Second Amendment guarantees the right of the people to keep and bear arms for "security."
* The laws of all states and constitutions of most states recognize the right to use force in self-defense. The Supreme Court has stated that a person "may repel force by force" in self-defense, and is "entitled to stand his ground and meet any attack made upon him with a deadly weapon, in such a way and with such force" as needed to prevent "great bodily injury or death." (Beard v. U.S., 1895)
* Congress affirmed the right to guns for "protective purposes" in the Gun Control Act (1968) and Firearm Owners` Protection Act (1986). In 1982, the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution described the right to arms as "a right of the individual citizen to privately possess and carry in a peaceful manner firearms and similar arms."