{"id":88502,"date":"2022-12-10T11:26:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T17:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=88502"},"modified":"2022-12-10T11:26:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T17:26:03","slug":"88502","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=88502","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Key House Republican says gun rights bills will be on 2023 to-do list<\/a><\/p>\n

Key backers of the gun rights amendment Iowa voters have just added to Iowa\u2019s Constitution say they\u2019ll introduce a series of gun-related proposals in the 2023 Iowa Legislature. House Republican Leader Matt Windschitl of Missouri Valley has been involved in gun-related issues since he was elected to the House in 2006.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are multiple different things we\u2019ve been trying to get done to restore freedoms in Iowa and we\u2019ve not been able to get across the finish line on some of those things,\u201d Windschitl said this afternoon. \u201cI\u2019m not at a point right now where I\u2019m going to discuss publicly what all of those items are, but you can expect us, after this victory, and restore freedoms to Iowans that never should have been taken away.\u201d<\/p>\n

Windschitl and others gathered in the statehouse this\u00a0 afternoon for a ceremony to mark passage of the amendment.<\/p>\n

\u201cIowans now have the best protections for their fundamental right to keep and bear arms of any state in the nation,\u201d Windschitl said.<\/p>\n

The amendment got a majority of votes in 97 of Iowa\u2019s 99 counties.<\/p>\n

\u201cIowans have made their voice loud and clear,\u201d Windschitl said. \u201cOur liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain.\u201d<\/p>\n

That last sentence is the state motto, adopted in 1847, the year after Iowa was recognized as a state. Secretary of State Paul Pate said the gun rights amendment was added to the state constitution on December 1st when statewide election results were certified.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn November 8, Iowans voted overwhelmingly to amend the Constitution, enshrining in it the right to bear arms,\u201d Pate said. \u201cIn fact, 65% of Iowans supported the adoption. Congratulations to all of you for your hard work and the efforts to secure its passage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Richard Rogers of the Iowa Firearms Coalition lobbied for the amendment as well as recent state laws on the use of weapons and gun permits.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, each and every improvement in the law was subject to being reversed, or worse, by the next or any future legislature,\u201d Rogers said during the ceremony. \u201cNow, with the ratification of this freedom amendment, as we call it, such a course will be much more difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is the 49th amendment added to Iowa\u2019s Constitution. It goes beyond the wording of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and says Iowa courts must evaluate any lawsuits challenging Iowa gun laws by the toughest legal standard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Key House Republican says gun rights bills will be on 2023 to-do list Key backers of the gun rights amendment Iowa voters have just added to Iowa\u2019s Constitution say they\u2019ll introduce a series of gun-related proposals in the 2023 Iowa Legislature. House Republican Leader Matt Windschitl of Missouri Valley has been involved in gun-related issues … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,24,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-rights","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88503,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88502\/revisions\/88503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}