Gov. Mike Pence (R) expanded gun rights in Indiana this week by signing SB229 into law (Photo Credit: Indiana Courier Journal)
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On Wednesday, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) signed SB229 into law, which changes the way gun laws are enforced in school parking lots.
The new law comes from Senate Bill 229, which allows otherwise legal gun owners to have a firearm on school property, parking lots specifically, so long as it’s locked inside their vehicle.
This protects the Second Amendment rights of parents and attendees at school functions, such as sporting events.
“Governor Pence believes in the right to keep and bear arms and that this is a common sense reform of the law that accomplishes the goal of keeping parents and law-abiding citizens from being charged with a felony when they pick their kids up at school or go to cheer on the local basketball team,” said a statement from the governor’s office.
Authored by state Senators James Tomes, (R-D49), Brent Steele, (R-D44), and Johnny Nugent, (R-D43),SB229, removes from Indiana law the provision which makes possession of firearms on school property is a felony.
Moving forward, legal gun owners will be able to bring firearms onto school property so long as they are secured and out of plain sight inside vehicles.
This has been the law in Minnesota for at least as long as the shall issue permit system went into effect in 2003. No problems here. If you prohibit a permit holder from carrying on the property, they need somewhere to secure the firearm while they conduct their business.
ReplyDeleteThe problem should be obvious. Cars are too easily broken into and too easily stolen. Leaving a gun in the car is never acceptable.
DeleteThen let it stay holstered and unseen, fully in the control of the carrier instead of making them lock it in the car during half of their errands and when picking up the kids.
DeleteYou mean like police cars too?
DeletePolice cars are not usually parked in unattended parking lots like the cars of gun owners in Indiana will be.
DeleteSimon, the solution is even simpler. When you're going someplace that prohibits guns, leave it home. If you leave it in the glove box of an unattended car, that's your decision to be irresponsible. It's not the fault of the law that you don't agree with.
"Police cars are not usually parked in unattended parking lots like the cars of gun owners in Indiana will be."
DeleteMike, I think you have an unrealistic picture of where police cars are kept. All of the departments inside of an hour's drive of me park in lots with no barriers. Though in my hometown I believe the squad gets taken home by the guy working the next morning, since he is also on call.
Plus, even if all of those cars were secured in fenced lots, where do you suppose the school resource officer parks his car while he's in the school? Why in the very same lot that I would park in and secure my pistol in if I were to have to go there for some reason.
The only real difference is that a person can make a pretty fair assumption that if they break into a police car, they WILL find a weapon as opposed to it being a matter of guesswork and the luck of the draw if someone decides to break into any other car in the lot.
ss, if that were true, then police cars would be stolen proportionately more often than civilian cars. I don't think that's the case. Do you?
DeleteGood for him.
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