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Washington – Effective July 29 SB 6250 has given the power to stop the carrying of firearms doing a Declared Emergency to the Governor. The Governor now has the authority to stop the possession and carrying of firearms outside the home in a declared emergency. http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bills/Senate Passed Legislature/5260.PL.pdf

Tennessee – Is going to go to a two tier Permit System. Effective 1/1/20 House Bill 1264 changes the name of the Tennessee Permit from "Handgun Carry Permit" to "Enhanced Handgun Carry Permit." It adds a new section to the statutes that lists all the criteria on obtaining a Tennessee Permit which will require less training and cost less. I can't find a final version of the bill with the amendments that passed added. You have to read the amendments that passed also to see the entire bill.
http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/111/Bill/HB1264.pdf

Connecticut - Effective October 1, 2019 HB 7223 Public Act No. 19-7 sets in statute how firearms must be stored in unattended vehicles and the charge if violated. You can read the Bill at https://www.cga.ct.gov/2019/ACT/pa/pdf/2019PA-00007-R00HB-07223-PA.pdf

Connecticut – Effective October 1, 2019 HB 7218 Public Act No. 19.5 amended CT Statutes on the storage of firearms on your premises that can be accessed by someone under 18. You can read the bill at https://www.cga.ct.gov/2019/ACT/pa/pdf/2019PA-00005-R00HB-07218-PA.pdf

New York & New York City – Effective Immediately. With the passage of Bill No. A05944/S04863 New York has removed "Gravity Knife" from the statute on what is considered a Deadly Weapon. NYC was citing a lot of people with an Assisted Opening Knife saying they could be opened by the flick of the wrist and the NY Supreme Ct even upheld a NYC conviction in the last few years upholding an Assisted Opening Knife was a Gravity Knife. NYC Admin Rules state a knife must not be visible. That clip that we use to carry that knife in a pocket showing has also gotten people cited. Keep it completely concealed in NYC at the least.
New York State Assembly | Bill Search and Legislative Information

Handgunlaw.us wants to remind people that when a bill is passed and becomes law it can take months and sometimes almost a year before a state will update its online statutes with the law change. Then like everyone else most have a disclaimer on the accuracy of their online statutes.
 
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Washington – Effective July 29 SB 6250 has given the power to stop the carrying of firearms doing a Declared Emergency to the Governor. The Governor now has the authority to stop the possession and carrying of firearms outside the home in a declared emergency. http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5260.PL.pdf
As a WA resident who makes a sincere effort to keep up on such things, I was surprised to have not heard about this before now. I followed your link and read through the bill.
Now, I'm no lawyer, and its been a while since I stayed at a Holiday Inn, but it looks to me like all the original language that allowed the governor to place additional prohibitions on people exercising the 2nd Amendment rights were stricken from the bill.
Am I mis-reading something here?
 
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As a WA resident who makes a sincere effort to keep up on such things, I was surprised to have not heard about this before now. I followed your link and read through the bill.
Now, I'm no lawyer, and its been a while since I stayed at a Holiday Inn, but it looks to me like all the original language that allowed the governor to place additional prohibitions on people exercising the 2nd Amendment rights were stricken from the bill.
Am I mis-reading something here?
It sure looks stricken to me:

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My Washington State entry about Governor's Emergency Powers was completely wrong. I had it backwards from what the bill actually stated. I have removed that from my post. I have to look and try to figure out how I made such a huge error. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused anyone. Gary Slider
 
My Washington entry should have stated that the Washington Legislature passed and the Governor signed a bill that REMOVED the Governors authority to stop the possess/carrying etc of firearms outside the home doing a declared emergency. I previously posted incorrect info about this bill. The bill is very easy to read and is not hard to understand. Don't know how I got it wrong. I just made a huge error! Sorry for any inconvenience I may have caused anyone. http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bills/Senate Passed Legislature/5260.PL.pdf
 
No problem (or inconvenience). I was just really surprised, and once I read the bill, perplexed.

No surprise that our left-coast politicians would try to pass something like that, it sounds just like something they would try to push. Our own shrinking-violet Lieutenant Governor proposed a bill that CCW be prohibited in the Capital building - and to grandstand it refused to show up to do his job - because he claimed he was too afraid of the prospect of honest citizens carrying guns in his presence.

No, the surprising part was that something like this would have made it into law without it having come up for discussion and opposition in some of the local forums I frequent.

As it turns out, thankfully, it didn't.
 
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