{"id":3271,"date":"2012-05-25T22:07:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/05\/25\/citizens-committee-on-hb-489\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:18:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:18:35","slug":"citizens-committee-on-hb-489","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3271","title":{"rendered":"Citizens Committee On HB 489"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15754,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.ccrkba.org\\\/?p=2878&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/ccrkba.org\\\/?p=2878&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms just released an alert on North Carolina&#8217;s HB 489 and the attempt to overturn the Bateman ruling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccrkba.org\/?p=2878\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The alert<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>BELLEVUE, WA \u2013 The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is alerting North Carolina gun owners that state lawmakers are attempting to pass a new \u201cemergency powers\u201d law that may be more restrictive than the one a federal judge just struck down.<\/p>\n<p>House Bill 489, according to Grass Roots North Carolina, would enable cities to restrict firearms rights in the home in emergencies, something they never had the authority to do. <b>Attorney Alan Gura, who represented GRNC and the Second Amendment Foundation in the recently-won federal lawsuit striking down the state\u2019s emergency power to regulate firearms in a declared emergency, says that anyone who tries to enforce a ban on guns under this new legislation would lose qualified immunity<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation, now in the Senate Judiciary I committee, establishes \u201cdangerous weapons restrictions in emergencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb said the new proposal suggests that North Carolina lawmakers responsible for this bill \u201ceither simply don\u2019t get it or they are determined to undermine a constitutionally-protected civil right no matter what a judge says.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe federal court ruled against this sort of emergency regulation, but the legislature is turning around and trying to pass an even more restrictive law,\u201d he observed.<\/p>\n<p>CCRKBA is urging firearms owners to contact their state senator to oppose the measure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTry to adopt bad legislation in an effort to replace a bad law that was struck down by a federal judge is not just bad policy,\u201d Gottlieb said, \u201cit is an egregious abuse of legislative power.\u201d<\/i> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms just released an alert on North Carolina&#8217;s HB&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[394,1260,1240,395,3779],"class_list":["post-3271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alan-gottlieb","tag-alan-gura","tag-bateman-v-perdue","tag-ccrkba","tag-hb-489"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8013,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271\/revisions\/8013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}