Concealed Guns In Glove Boxes, Restaurants Approved by VA House

[cpttango30]

http://www.wusa9.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=68831

Concealed Guns In Glove Boxes, Restaurants Approved

Date created: 2/21/2008 6:48:44 PM
Last updated: 2/21/2008 6:49:22 PM



RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- The firearms-friendly House of Delegates has passed legislation that could, if signed into law, result in more concealed handguns in restaurants, bars and vehicle glove compartments.Advertisement



The House voted 62-to-36 to pass legislation that would allow concealed weapons permit holders to carry hidden firearms into restaurants or clubs as long as they don't drink alcohol while doing so. Currently, guns must be visible when carried into restaurants.

The head of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Department told a House committee earlier this week that the administration opposes the bill, which did not pass by the two-thirds margin that would be required to sustain a veto.

Gordon Hickey is a spokesman for Governor Tim Kaine. He says the governor would have to review the details of the bill before deciding whether to veto it.

Delegate Todd Gilbert, a Republican from Shenandoah, says restaurant patrons have nothing to fear from legally armed fellow diners.

 

[HungSquirrel]

About time. Being somewhere that serves alcohol and actually consuming alcohol are two very different things, but certain state legislatures have trouble wrapping their noggins around the simple distinction.

 

[10 Ring Tao]

I'm from michigan and just spent a week in VA.

It is absurdly obnoxious to have to uncover in an applebees because alcohol is served there, despite not drinking myself.

I can usually understand stupid if I try hard enough, but this whole no concealed carry in restaurants that serve alcohol is just a level that I'm not capable of understanding.

 

[Dgreno]

I have been waiting for this for a long time...

 

[TheReeves]

firearms-friendly House of Delegates?

Is that supposed to be sarcasm from WUSA?

btw, link to the thread in Legal:

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=341906

 

[chris in va]

Read the fine print on the bill.

 

[Starship1st]

This is what every state need to review: Responsible citizens carrying concealed weapons any where.

 

[Dgreno]

Both approved it, kaine just needs to sign it now. He will be on (local) Fox news at 10:30 tonight...
ETA:
Just watched it, the Delegate from Shenandoah apparently did not listen to/read a word of the bill, "drinking and having a gun is not good", the bill said that if carrying, you can not drink. Kaine said he will "review" the bill thoroughly before he makes a decision...

 

[zoom6zoom]

Kaine said he will "review" the bill thoroughly before he makes a decision...

...of which pen to use to veto it.

 

[jferrell54]

I sure hope no one thinks kaine is pro gun. He only thinks it's Ok for the criminals to have them. But he understands that most criminals were abused as kids so that makes it all OK.

 

[polekitty]

Somewhere back there in the dim dark past of our country one of our founding fathers said "Never trust a government which does not trust its own people. I would say that means do not trust your Virginia government and especially your Virginia governor!