Connecticut law:
"All persons shall bear arms, and every male person shall have in continual readiness a good muskitt or other gunn, fitt for service."
Things have regressed since that happy legal code of the Nutmeggers in 1650, but we're trying to restore the spirit in Iowa where Constitutional Carry isn't quite yet dead.
A CC bill was supposed to have died last week when it failed to make it though the mid-session funnel. The bill's sponsor found a loophole -- wouldn't he just :). Tax bills are exempt from the funnel rules, and Rep. Tom Sands of Wapello said since the measure eliminates permit fees, it's a tax bill. The appropriate committee will probably go along and vote it out with a do-pass recommendation. Love it. We're getting sneakier than a Chicago alderman.
However, I doubt this will make it all the way. In the first place, our brand-new shall-issue was a big gulp for gentle Iowans, and it isn't quite digested yet.
Republicans hold a 60-40 house margin, but even some of them are afraid of this bill. Democrats run the senate and are not under the kind of electoral pressure to back liberty measures as they were last year.
The organized cop unions are, of course, soiling their stepins.
(Carnage under the new law is so far limited to one dimwit who waved his pistol around in a bar and thereby lost his permit, his pistol, and the respect of brainier freedom advocates.)
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