Connecticut Preparedness

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H.B. No. 6457 (RAISED) PUBLIC SAFETY AND SECURITY. 'AN ACT CONCERNING THE REGULATION OF FIREARMS AND THE LICENSING OF BAIL ENFORCEMENT AGENTS, PROFESSIONAL BONDSMEN AND SURETY BAIL BOND AGENTS', to require gun show promoters to notify the Commissioner of Public Safety of any planned gun show; to mandate annual firearms safety refresher courses for bail enforcement agents, professional bondsmen and surety bail bond agents; to require that certain firearms and criminal justice course instructors be approved by the Commissioner of Public Safety; to provide an exemption to the offenses of selling, carrying or brandishing a facsimile firearm for a participant in a state-certified qualified production; to change the blood alcohol limit for the offense of carrying a firearm while intoxicated to achieve parity with the level for the offense of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated; and to require the concealment of a pistol or revolver when carried upon the person, with certain exemptions. We OPPOSE the provision on Concealed Carry. The system we have now, if ALL law-enforcement personnel were to exercise good judgment, is adequate. Showing the outline of a firearm or inadvertently showing due to a shirt rising and then being charged, revocation of permit, court costs, etc. is inappropriate and not threatening or a threat to public safety however perceived by the viewer. Many exemptions will need to be addressed should this bill progress. Why is the CSP pursuing this concept when they have arrested without the law? Additionally, court cases are still current and the legislature normally doesn’t address issues that are pending and not judicially resolved. Penalty: Any person violating any provision of subsection (c) [Concealed Carry] of section 29-35, as amended by this act, shall be guilty of a class C misdemeanor. E-mail, and Write, and Phone Call YOUR State Legislators!