North Carolina House Votes to Remove Important Pro-Gun Provision

By Justin Stakes

Fairfax, VA -(AmmoLand.com)- On Tuesday, June 16, the North Carolina House of Representatives gave in to pressure from the North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association (NCSA) and passed an amendment to House Bill 562, offered by state Representative Allen McNeill (R-78), on a vote of 78-37.

As previously reported, the misguided McNeill Amendment removed the requirement that the outdated Pistol Purchase Permit (PPP) system be replaced with the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). Many legislators who claimed to support the Second Amendment, and had claimed on their NRA-PVF Candidate Questionnaire that they supported replacing the PPP with NICS, chose instead to side with the NCSA.

Instead of supporting the rights of law-abiding gun owners, they chose to prop up the outdated, inefficient PPP system that allows for the constitutionally protected Right to Keep and Bear Arms to be infringed upon by local elected officials. Instead of supporting fiscal responsibility and transitioning to NICS (which is federally funded), lawmakers chose to maintain a system that likely costs the state millions of dollars every …read more

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