Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Sacramento Bee: Bill Restricting "Open Carry" To Be Heard This Morning

AM Alert: New push for 'open carry' handgun bill

The Sacramento Bee, April 12, 2011

The last effort died in the final hours of last year's Assembly session, most likely a casualty of too many bills and too little time.

Now Assemblyman Anthony Portantino, D-La Cañada Flintridge, has taken up the bid to prohibit people from openly carrying unloaded handguns in public.

His measure will have its first public hearing today in the Assembly Public Safety Committee, which meets at 9 a.m. in Room 126 at the Capitol.

With AB 144, Portantino is picking up where fellow Democrat Lori Saldaña - now termed out of the Legislature - left off. His goal is to curtail protests that encourage participants to show up at public places en masse with firearms strapped to their side.

Now that Assembly Speaker John Pérez has revoked permission for his members to carry weapons, Portantino can rest assured that no one on the committee will be armed.

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