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Police groups argue against repealing Indiana gun permit law

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (AP): Several police organizations are arguing against a proposal that would have Indiana join a dozen other states that don’t require a license to carry a handgun in public.

A legislative committee met Tuesday to begin reviewing the proposal that has failed the last two years in the Republican-dominated Legislature.

Law enforcement officials told the panel that the current law allows Indiana State Police to vet people who want to carry a gun. State police Maj. Mike White says about 3,000 people a year are denied permits because of criminal history or mental health issues.

Republican state Rep. Jim Lucas of Seymour is pushing for repealing the gun permit law, saying that law-abiding people shouldn’t have to get state permission to carry out their constitutional right to bear arms.

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3 comments

Ron August 23, 2017 at 11:39 am

As a store manager, I am sometimes at my store alone.
At times, I have large amounts of cash…
3 years ago, I applied for a conceal/carry permit and was turned down, for reasons unknown…
I have never had a record nor have I ever been arrested…
All I wanted to do was to have a little extra protection for those times when I am by myself…

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Casual Observer August 29, 2017 at 8:22 am

I seem to recall the 2nd saying something about “shall not be infringed”….not ‘subject to the whim of some bureaucrat’.

These law enforcement officials must be reading a different copy of the Constitution then I have.

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Casual Observer August 29, 2017 at 12:55 pm

“than I have” that is….grammar police may now stand down.

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