West Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc.
PO Box 11371 • Charleston, WV 25339-1371WVCDL Legislative Tracking Service
The following gun-related bills have been introduced in the West Virginia Legislature during its 2010 regular session.
This page was last updated at 1:35 PM, Monday, February 8, 2010.
Bills WVCDL Strongly Supports |
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Bill |
Status |
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| HB 4265 Prohibiting the taking of lawfully possessed arms and ammunition during a declared state of emergency or riot This bill prohibits the taking of lawfully possessed arms and ammunition during a declared state of emergency or riot. This is a WVCDL bill. |
02/02/10 - Introduced 02/02/10 - To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB 4280 Relating to the regulation of carrying firearms -- Hunting law cleanup This bill clarifies the applicability of certain hunting regulations to the carrying of firearms. This bill repeals limitations on how handguns may be carried in vehicles or in wooded areas or while bowhunting and clarifies miscellaneous other firearm regulations to only apply to rifles and shotguns. This bill also exempts individuals licensed or otherwise authorized to carry concealed weapons from certain regulations on the manner in which other firearms may be carried or transported in wooded areas or vehicles. This is a WVCDL bill. |
02/02/10 - Introduced 02/02/10 - To House Natural Resources Committee, then House Judiciary Committee |
| HB
4305 Relating to limitations upon the keeping and bearing of arms -- Preemption reform This bill reforms the state preemption of firearm regulations and establishes uniform signage requirement for all places, both public and private property, where the possession or carrying of weapons has been prohibited. This is a WVCDL bill. |
02/02/10 - Introduced 02/02/10 - To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB 4325 Right to Carry -- No License Required This bill repeals the requirement of a license to carry concealed weapons, partially strengthens preemption, contains provisions similar to HB 4280 for cleaning up confusing and contradictory hunting laws regulating handguns, restores firearm rights to individuals who have received a pardon, expungement, or certain forms of relief from disabilities for a disqualifying crime, and maintains optional concealed weapon licenses for West Virginians to be able to carry in other states via reciprocity. This is a WVCDL bill. |
02/03/10 - Introduced 02/03/10 - To House Natural Resources Committee, then House Judiciary Committee |
| SB 164 State Capitol Carry Ban Repeal Repeals the statute prohibiting the possession of deadly weapons on the State Capitol grounds and modifies the statute prohibiting weapons in courthouses to permit carrying inside all parts of the State Capitol building not occupied by the Supreme Court of appeals and court offices. This is a WVCDL bill. |
01/13/10
- Introduced 01/13/10 - To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SB 170 Prohibiting third-party purchase of firearm/Anti-Bloomberg Bill Prohibits the purchase of firearms from licensed firearm dealers with the intent of reselling to a person prohibited from possessing firearms or with the intent of unlawfully transferring the firearm across state lines. This bill mirrors federal law and existing Virginia state laws, including a similar bill enacted in 2007 by the Virginia General Assembly. This bill has been designed to provide state level jurisdiction in West Virginia to prosecute straw purchasers and, like Virginia's 2007 law, is intended to block the unlawful efforts of New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg to dispatch investigators to gun dealers in gun owner-friendly states in his efforts to snare gun dealers in costly litigation with the hopes of acquiring access to private records of legal gun purchases and indirectly imposing New York-style gun control via litigation. This is a WVCDL bill. |
01/13/10
- Introduced 01/13/10 - To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| SCR 20 Reasserting West Virginia's sovereignty under Tenth Amendment |
02/05/10 - Filed for
introduction 02/05/10 - Introduced in Senate 02/08/10 - On Unfinished Business 02/08/10 - To Senate Judiciary Committee |
Bills WVCDL Supports |
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Bill |
Status |
|---|---|
| HB 2866 Allowing a license to carry deadly weapons to remain valid until the applicant receives notice the application for renewal has been issued or denied This bill provides an indefinite extension of a concealed handgun license for which a renewal application was filed prior to its expiration date and which is pending before the sheriff. |
01/13/10 - Introduced 01/13/10 - To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB 4014 Requiring qualifying law-enforcement officers employed by a West Virginia law-enforcement agency to receive certification to carry a concealed firearm nationwide. This bill is an older version of a WVCDL-authored bill to establish the necessary certification programs for active and retired law-enforcement officers to have nationwide concealed carry privileges under the federal Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2004. |
01/13/10 - Introduced 01/13/10 - To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB 4170 Uniform Collateral Consequences of Conviction Act This bill establishes a mechanism to ensure that all criminal defendants are properly informed of all potential consequences of a conviction, including a potential loss of firearm rights. This bill reduces the risk that any person will unknowingly forfeit his or her rights by pleading guilty to any crime or mounting a less-than-vigorous defense to a criminal charge. |
01/25/10 - Introduced 01/25/10 - To House Judiciary Committee |
| SB 340 Uniform Collateral Consequences of Conviction Act Same as HB 4170 |
01/25/10
- Introduced 01/25/10 - To Senate Judiciary Committee |
Bills on which WVCDL is Neutral |
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Bill |
Status |
|---|---|
| HB
2075 Allow family court judges to carry concealed weapons without a license This bill grants family court judges the same privilege as the law already grants to circuit court judges. |
01/13/10 - Introduced 01/13/10 - To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB
2298 Allow mental hygiene commissioners to carry concealed weapons without a license Authorizes mental hygiene commissioners to carry concealed weapons without a license. |
01/13/10 - Introduced 01/13/10 - To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB 2428 Permitting magistrates to carry concealed handguns without a permit This bill grants magistrates the same privilege as the law already grants to circuit court judges. |
01/13/10 - Introduced 01/13/10 - To House Judiciary Committee |
| HB
4316 West Virginia Firearms Freedom Act |
02/02/10 - Introduced 02/02/10 - To House Judiciary Committee |
Bills WVCDL Opposes |
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Bill |
Status |
|---|---|
| HB 2507 Relating to the discharging of firearms within a certain distance of a dwelling house This bill authorizes the Director of the Division of Natural Resources to issue individual permits to allow a person to discharge a firearm within 500 feet of a house under certain conditions. WVCDL believes that the conditions of this bill are too restrictive. We have proposed an alternative bill that would provide backyard target shooters a more effective means to legally discharge firearms within the vicinity of their own homes or, with prior written permission, those of a neighbor. |
01/13/10 - Introduced 01/13/10 - To House Natural Resources Committee, then House Judiciary Committee |
Bills WVCDL Strongly Opposes |
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Bill |
Status |
|---|---|
| HB 2299 One handgun per month purchase limit This bill would prohibit any private citizen from purchasing more than one handgun in any 30-day period. This bill includes not only purchases from dealers but also private sales. This bill is a perennial proposal of one of the few honest anti-gun members of the Legislature, Delegate John Doyle, D-Jefferson. |
01/13/10
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Introduced 01/13/10 - To House Judiciary Committee |
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