Friends,
This morning campus carry was officially
pronounced dead by Senate Judiciary Chairman Greg Brower.
Senator Greg Brower announced that he would not
grant a hearing to AB487, an emergency measure that was introduced by the
Not-So-Great Eight Assembly Republicans who last week voted against adding
campus carry to SB175, an omnibus gun bill introduced by Senator Michael
Roberson.
For several weeks, I, along with the majority of
my fellow Republicans, have talked about Assemblyman Ira Hansen’s
valiant effort to save campus carry by amending it to SB175. This was
without any doubt, our one and best chance to pass campus carry in the 2015
Republican controlled legislative session. However, 8 Assembly Republicans
actively fought to kill the campus carry amendment and ultimately voted
against amending it into SB175 last week. Out of our 25 Republicans in our
caucus, 8 killed it by voting against it along with the 17 Democrats. Only
after outrage at their actions from 2nd Amendment supporters, the
Not-So-Great Eight re-introduced an emergency campus carry bill (AB487) and
touted promises that they had negotiated a deal with the Senate to give
campus carry a hearing in the Senate. In fact, Majority Leader Paul
Anderson, when asked by a constituent via email why he voted against the
campus carry amendment to SB175 responded: “I will vote for the clean
gun bill that will get signed by the Governor into law.”
In light of this morning’s announcement by
Senator Greg Brower that AB487 is dead, clearly Majority Leader Anderson
and the rest of the Not-So-Great Eight were lying to everyone when they
claimed to have struck a deal with the Senate to bring campus carry to not
only a vote in the Senate but also by implying the Governor would sign it.
I am sending this email to you, the voters, so
that you may remember this come election time. A lot of great people have
fought hard for the last 3 sessions to pass this much needed legislation in
Nevada, only to have it die in the hands of so-called Republicans.
If you would like to read an in-depth report of
everything that has happened with campus carry in the 2015 legislative
session leading up to it’s death, the following links below are to a
three-part story that explains how the Not-So-Great Eight; Assemblymen
Wheeler, Oscarson, Woodbury, Silberkraus, Paul Anderson, Derek Armstrong,
Lynn Stewart and Chris Edwards killed campus carry.
Who Shot Campus Carry? A Muth’s Truths
Investigation
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