WV Gun Owners Protection Act of 2011

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GOOD NEWS: HB3125 (title as above) has been introduced to the House of Delegates. It is a comprehensive revision of West Virginia’s gun laws that expands the rights of law-abiding gun owners and increases the penalties for the criminal misuse of firearms and other weapons.

Full text of the bill (.html) is at: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3125 intr.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=3125[url]
Note cut and paste the whole thing between the two [url] boxes into your browser. Long and complicated -- how to be comprehensive!

Bill summary can be found at:
[url]http://www.wvcdl.org/WVCDLbills/WVGOPA2011.html
Short and to the point. Worth a read just to see what others are trying.

BAD NEWS: HB3125 is just one of 408 bills (as of Feb 14) assigned to the Judiciary Committee, where it will DIE, unless. . . enough pressure is brought to bear on the members of the WV House Judiciary Committee to move the bill through the committee intact.

Please, Help. If you are a WV resident: call, e-mail and/or write your Delegate, as well as the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee and urge them to move the bill through the committee intact and vote for its passage. If you are not a WV resident, but might want a WV nonresident license, please call or e-mail the Committee Chair and let him know you would be willing to purchase a WV nonresident license. It might take THOUSANDS of contacts to move this bill, and YOU could be THE ONE that makes the difference.

WV House Judiciary Committee Membership is at:
http://www.legis.state.wv.us/committees/house/HouseCommittee.cfm?Chart=jud


Click on any member and their contact info comes up, as well as a Map of WV House Districts.

Thanks.
Gary
PS – A companion bill should hit the WV Senate soon. Stay tuned!

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The bill never made it onto the Judiciary Committee Agenda, and has died in committee.

If a WV bill does not pass the house of it's introduction in the first 60 days of the legislative session, it is dead.

The average bill that got placed on the House Judicial Committee agenda was short (less than 10 pages in length), and was sponsored by member(s) of the committee(s) to which it was referred. That less-than-10-page long average INCLUDES one 100+ pager and a couple of 70+ pagers that were must-pass items. At 500+ pages, HB3125 never stood a chance.