Fellow shooters,

I am writing to you about an important firearms related bill that is currently pending in the Idaho Senate State Affairs Committee. You will probably be getting an alert from NRA/ILA about this bill in the next few days but I wanted to contact you directly to ask for your support in helping to get this legislation passed.

You may have seen reports in the news about cities and other government entities in Idaho trying to put restrictions on concealed carry. Senate Bill 1381 would clarify that only the state legislature has the authority to regulate firearms in the state. Not the cities, not the counties, not any state agency or commission. The legislature has enacted sensible firearms laws and we do not need any local government authority adding to them or restricting where or what you can own or carry. Please take a minute to read the bill: http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1381.html

This bill is especially important to our sport shooting community because it protects the discharge of firearms on a shooting range from regulation by local authorities.

If you live in one of the Senate districts represented on the State Affairs Committee, please contact your State Senator and ask them to support this bill. There are some Senators who may be trying to get some "cover" for voting against this bill by saying that it would discourage shooting range development. I wrote this bill and I can assure you that nothing could be further from the truth! I encourage you to take a look at the language of the bill and see for yourself what it would do to protect our firearms' freedoms in Idaho. When you contact your State Senator please mention that you are a competition shooter so that they know that they can't hide behind "pro-gun" rhetoric while casting a vote against your rights!

At the bottom of this message I am including a list of the members of the State Affairs Committee with contact information. If your Senator is on this committee please contact them and express your support for the bill ASAP. Senator McKenzie, the chair of this committee, is one of the sponsors of this bill but he needs your help to get it passed.

It is especially important that people in Sen. Little's (Emmett) and Sen. Stegner's (Lewiston) districts contact them and let them know that you expect them to support this bill.

I can promise that I will keep you updated about this as the session goes forward until the bill has been passed and signed by the governor. I don't like being hassled by political action messages any more than you do but THIS IS IMPORTANT!

Please pass this on to all the Idaho shooters that you know so that they can let the legislature know that they want local governments to keep their hands off our firearms' freedoms!

Please contact me if you have any questions.

DVC,

Mike Brown, CRO
Executive Director, Idaho Sport Shooters Alliance
http://www.idahossa.org/

State Affairs Committee

Senator Curt McKenzie - Chair, Republican

Senator Michael Jorgenson - Vice Chair, Republican

Senator Denton Darrington, Republican

Senator Robert L. Geddes, Republican

Senator Bart M. Davis, Republican

Senator Joe Stegner, Republican

Senator Brad Little, Republican

Senator Clint Stennett, Democrat

Senator Kate Kelly, Democrat