Those of you interested in the shooting park might be interested to know that State Senator John Lee was appointed the National Shooting Sports Foundation's 2007 Legislator of the year. (GunDogs) That was mainly because he drafted Senate Bill 98 92 which was passed and signed into law during the last legislative session. The point of the legislation seemed to be that certain gun shows that came into Las Vegas for their conventions would run afoul of Clark County's–and North Las Vegas'–tepid gun laws. Apparently Mr. Lee was concerned that the gun park itself might not be consistent with those laws. (NevLeg)
Las Vegas Metro and other law enforcement entities were not pleased with the original version of Lee's bill because as written, it looked like it would with a single stroke of the pen wipe out all gun registration laws in the state. (p. 9 here) The law was quickly amended to remove such language and make law enforcement happier with the bill. (p. 21 here)
Senate Bill 98 92 was the reason that the City's been so busy this last year eviscerating its gun laws. As the gun-happy editorial staff of the Club for Growth Review Journal put it:
For the longest time, law-abiding
Clark County gun owners with target or self-defense weapons safely
cased in their cars had to worry about inadvertently driving across the
line into North Las Vegas, where the gun laws were more restrictive.
(The Legislature finally told them to knock it off, last year.) (RJ)
So, the next time you're wondering why your kids end up locked in a bus for a couple hours because their elementary school is on lockdown due to gun play in the neighborhood, you might want to pose that question to Senator Lee. Don't forget to ask the mayor and the council the same question.
Hey, you can even ask mayoral hopeful Shari Buck at her taxpayer-funded infomercial Tuesday!
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