There They Go Again: Iowa State Senator Pushes for More Carrying Misdemeanors

By Patrick Richardson

To paraphrase the late, great Ronald Wilson Reagan, “Well, here they go again.”

Unable to get major gun control legislation through Congress, and with a president unlikely to sign it even if they did, the antis have turned to state legislatures to try and force their agenda through.

Case in point, Iowa.

According to the Des Moines Register:

A Iowa lawmaker has introduced a bill that would make it a crime for people carrying a gun to enter a building that has a sign posted banning dangerous weapons.

Sen. Joe Bolkcom, D-Iowa City, said he is sponsoring Senate File 2025 at the request of business owners in Johnson County, intending to protect Iowans who operate bars, restaurants and grocery stores. The measure has drawn opposition from Second Amendment advocates.

Leaving aside that weapons are not dangerous, people are, what The Right Honorable Senator Bolcom wants to do is criminalize otherwise protected conduct.

Bolcom has dodged the usual “common sense gun restriction” argument (hint: even Dems are beginning to figure out that’s a loser) and is instead framing it in terms of “property rights.”

“This puts the rights of those business owners on par with the rights of people who carry concealed weapons …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms