It’s been a very busy week in Cheyenne in the fight for gun rights and there is urgent action that you need to take, so please keep reading.
First, the bad news.
The Senate voted earlier this week to keep SF-75 in the Judiciary Committee — a notoriously hostile committee — by a vote of 16-14.
This bill would do away with deadly ‘Gun Free Zones’ in Wyoming once and for all, and establishes the fact that it is the legislature (not cities, universities, or the courts) who set firearms laws in Wyoming!
The following Senators voted against your gun rights by voting to keep this bill in what many insiders refer to as a ‘kill committee:’
Senators Anderson, Anselmi-Dalton, Baldwin, Case, Coe, Ellis, Gierau, Kost, Landen, Pappas, Perkins, Rothfuss, Schuler, Scott, Von Flattern, and Wasserburger.
And don’t believe their excuse about how ‘this was not a vote on a gun bill, it was just a procedural motion.’ That’s an utter lie, and they know it.
Earlier this week, I personally spoke with Chairwoman Nethercott about the bill and asked her what she intended to do with SF 75.
Senator Nethercott told me that she will hold a committee hearing on the bill next Wednesday, but beyond that, was non-committal.
When I asked her if she was working to introduce harmful amendments that were designed to weaken the bill — she would not answer.
When I asked her if she was going to ‘whip’ her caucus (use her leadership position to get her fellow Republicans to vote ‘Yes,’) to make sure that the bill would get out of her committee — she would not answer.
(If your email client doesn’t allow this link to format properly, we’ve included the email below so that you can cut and paste the email.)
Please contact:
>>> Chairwoman Nethercott
(307)399-7696
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Email: [email protected]
>>> Senator Liisa Anselmi-Dalton
(307)389-4496
Facebook
Email: [email protected]
>>> Senator Brian Boner
(307)359-0707
Facebook
Email: [email protected]
>>> Senator R.J. Kost
(307)754-7174
Facebook
Email: [email protected]
>>> Senator Michael Von Flatern
(307)680-4744
Facebook
Email: [email protected]
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Whether you contact them via email, Facebook, phone or in person, your message is the same: Pass Senate File 75 as is, with no weakening amendments, to rid Wyoming of deadly ‘Gun Free Zones’ and fix our preemption problem!
Please contact them right away, as the committee meets in just a few days.
The good news is that we were also able to get a House companion of this bill filed this week as well.
House Bill 183 is the identical bill to Senate File 75, and already has an astounding 33 co-sponsors. This means that we’ll have a separate option to advance this bill, if we need it.
You may recall it was this same process, dueling bills in both chambers, that allowed us to get the heat on lawmakers when we passed Stand-Your-Ground law last year.
We will have more information coming out soon, but for now, please email the committee right away, using the links above.
The University of Wyoming lobbyists, the Wyoming Assoc. of Municipalities, and many others are trying to stop this bill, or water it down any way they can.
Virtually every one of these lawmakers said that they were pro-gun when on the campaign trail; it’s time to make them prove it!
Please send your emails now.
For Freedom,
Aaron Dorr
Policy Advisor
Wyoming Gun Owners
P.S. The Senate voted to stick SF 75 in the hostile Judiciary Committee by a vote of 16-14. Find out how your Senator voted by reading above.
Meantime, the committee will be considering SF 75 at 8:00am on Wednesday (January 23,) so I need you to take immediate action.
(If your email client doesn’t allow this link to format properly, we’ve included the email below so that you can cut and paste the email.)
You can also contact them individually, as we have provided their phone numbers, email addresses, and Facebook information in the email above!
Pre-Written Email Here:
Dear Senator:
As a gun owner and voter in Wyoming, I am writing to urge you to advance Senate File 75 through the Judiciary Committee with no weakening amendments!
This legislation would repeal deadly ‘Gun Free Zones’ that leave me and my loved ones helpless in the event of a violent attack.
Wyoming’s Constitutional Carry and Stand-Your-Ground laws do me no good if I have to disarm in these ‘Gun Free Zones.’
It also provides critical clarity to Wyoming’s preemption statute, to avoid a nightmare scenario where every town or county could have their own firearms policies — ensuring innocent gun owners don’t get ensnared in spurious legal charges.
With dozens of lawmakers backing this popular bill, and Governor Gordon on the record saying he would sign this into law, please advance this bill right away — with no weakening amendments!
Wyoming Gun Owners assures me that they’ll let me know the status of this bill, and who is supporting it.
Sincerely,
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