Aknazer
Regular Member
Given that the present HB1051 presently in commitee is virtually the same as the bill proposed by Rep. Mike Martin a year ago, I'm now wondering if open carry bills are being proposed with wording intentionally omitting any requirements which would assuage commitee members' concerns and allow an open carry bill to pass into the house for a vote. Is this a pre-emptive "blocking" tactic to indefinitely put off legalizing open carry in Arkansas? Hmmmmm...
I know over here in OK we were having a similar issue in regards to certain things killing OC for us, only for us it has to do with cops being able to stop OCers and demand ID and the requiring a CWL (soon to be HWL) to OC. Even though it's not ideal, it was our 2A legislators who told us that these things need to stay in the bill or else it would risk not passing and we can work on getting them changed/removed after we have OC.