The 147th Delaware General Assembly is now history. Throughout this 2014 Session we have been watching and working several bills. Below is a re-cap of just some of the bills we were watching in the closing hours and what happened to those bills.
Each of these bills may be accessed by going to the DSSA web site: https://dssa.us or by going to the Delaware General Assembly’s web site and clicking on “Bill Tracking”.
SB 137 – Prime Sponsor is Senator Harris McDowell. This was the so-called “Undetectable Gun Bill”. No Action – Died in the Senate
HB 98 – This bill was passed in the House and Amended in the Senate. It is the Senate Amendment pertaining to Delaware’s gray fox that is opposed by DSSA. No Action – Died in the House
HB 72 – Prime sponsors are Rep. Mitchell and Sen. Ennis. Having narrowly passed the House, this was a sentencing enhancement bill which calls for a one (1) year minimum jail sentence for Carrying a Concealed deadly Weapon Without a Permit to Do So where that weapon is a firearm. This targets those who illegally carry firearms while ignoring those who illegally carry other types of deadly weapons. Because this bill discriminates against firearms and because it is fraught with dangers to the unknowing and the ill-informed, DSSA and NRA opposed this bill. No Action – Died in the Senate
HB 67 – Prime sponsor is Rep. D. Scott of Dover. This was the “school gun ban bill” – and would have created a real and present danger for our children, making it easier for crazy people, spousal abusers and potential kidnappers to use schools as “safe zones for criminal activity”. No Action – Died in the House.
SB 32 – Prime sponsors are Sen. Lavelle and Rep. Briggs-King. This bill pertains to those persons who knowingly give or sell a firearm to a person prohibited. This bill was stricken by its sponsors.
HB 37 – Prime sponsors are Rep. Hudson and Sen. Lawson. This bill provides enhanced penalties for those convicted of possessing a deadly weapon during the commission of a felony, differentiating for the first time between those who simply possess and those who actually use a weapon. No Action – Died in the House
HB 82 – Prime Sponsors are Rep. Briggs-King and Sen. Cloutier. This bill provides for enhanced penalties for those convicted of using firearms to inflict physical injury or death. No Action – Died in the House.
SB 18 – Prime sponsors are Sen. Pettyjohn and Rep. Wilson. This bill addressed those who falsely report the loss or theft of a firearm. No Action – Died in the Senate
SB 23 – Prime Sponsors are Sen. Marshall and Rep. Boulden. This bill would have repealed municipal pre-emption laws and allow all of Delaware’s 57 municipalities (including and especially the City of Wilmington) to write their own anti-gun laws. No Action – Died in the Senate
HB 62 – Prime sponsors are Rep. Boulden and Sen. Marshall. This bill would have exempted the City of Wilmington from Delaware’s pre-emption laws and allow the City of Wilmington to enact Councilwoman Shabazz’s plan to register, ban and confiscate firearms currently owned by law-abiding citizens of Wilmington. No Action – Died in the House
HB 58 – Prime sponsors are Rep. Mitchell and Sen. Peterson. This bill would have banned the manufacture, sale, possession and use of standard capacity magazines for rifles, pistols and shotguns, limiting those firearms to a magazine capacity of no more than 10 rounds. No Action – Died in the House
SB 37 – STRICKEN BY SPONSOR – We had placed this bill on our “Watch List” because it was expected that AG Biden would eventually offer a replacement for Senator Marshall’s original bill which banned a long list of semi-auto rifles, pistols and shotguns, provided for mandatory registration and eventual confiscation of those firearms. No Action – No New Bill Introduced.
HS1 TO HB 187 – This was a substitute bill introduced to replace the fatally flawed original bill. This bill was an attempt to deal with fraudulent charitable solicitors but went way too far in doing so and would have negatively affected many charitable organizations, including the NRA and other sportsmen’s clubs. No Action – Died in the House.
Throughout this Second Session of the 147th Delaware General Assembly we have asked that you contact your senators and representatives – and you did that. And because you did that we were able to kill or bottle-up a lot of really bad, anti-gun, anti-freedom legislation.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR MANY CALLS, EMAILS, FAXES AND VISITS TO YOUR SENATOR & REPRESENTATIVE.
GOOD JOB!
Now it’s time to prepare for the November elections.
Make your voice heard – freedom is not free – we must be vigilant and we must fight for freedom every day – CONTINUE TO DO YOUR PART.
CALL TO ACTION
When they come knocking on your door, asking for your vote, tell the candidates – challengers and incumbents alike – support our freedom, support our Constitution and support the rights of the people to keep and bear arms for lawful purposes. Get out and work for your pro-gun candidates of choice – help make a difference
A VOTE FOR A PRO-GUN CANDIDATE IS A VOTE FOR FREEDOM!
ON ELECTION DAY – – – VOTE FREEDOM FIRST!