{"id":93640,"date":"2023-06-16T12:35:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T17:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=93640"},"modified":"2023-06-16T12:35:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T17:35:32","slug":"93640","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=93640","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Committee approves proposal to regulate Marion County firearms, but state law has to change first<\/a><\/p>\n

Proposal to control access to guns in Marion County<\/h3>\n

On Wednesday, the City-County Council\u2019s Public Safety and Criminal Justice Committee approved a proposal that would regulate gun access in Marion County. Nine council members voted in favor of the measure, and four against.<\/p>\n

The proposal\u2019s first provision would create a ban on the sale of assault-style weapons such as AR-15s. A second would increase the minimum age to purchase a weapon from 18 to 21. The third would end permitless carry of handguns.<\/p>\n

Last month, Hogsett announced that one of his office\u2019s top priorities during the next legislative session would be convincing the General Assembly to change state law surrounding gun regulation.<\/p>\n

Currently, individuals do not need a permit to carry a firearm in Indiana<\/a>. Indiana has a preemption statute that prevents local governments from regulating firearms.<\/p>\n

Multiple council members said Wednesday that Indianapolis should be able to enforce its own laws on firearms.<\/p>\n

\u201cI implore our state legislature to remove this ban and allow our city to rule for the benefit of our people,\u201d said Democratic council member Dan Boots.<\/p>\n

Republican council members like Joshua Bain voted against the proposal.<\/p>\n

\u201dWe\u2019re going to continue to blame guns, other tools like that, for what is ultimately a spiritual issue that’s affecting our society,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

But IMPD Chief Randal Taylor, who supports the measure, said more concrete solutions are needed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’ve always said that I would much rather someone decide not to shoot someone, work on someone’s heart, and not do these crimes in the first place,\u201d Taylor said at the meeting. \u201cAnd I’m still all for that. However, we don’t seem to be winning that battle right now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Committee approves proposal to regulate Marion County firearms, but state law has to change first Proposal to control access to guns in Marion County On Wednesday, the City-County Council\u2019s Public Safety and Criminal Justice Committee approved a proposal that would regulate gun access in Marion County. Nine council members voted in favor of the measure, … 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":[9,50,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-goobermint","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93640","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=93640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93641,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93640\/revisions\/93641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}