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Article: Legislators fine-tuning bill on weapons permits/ Compromise would create statewide regulations
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- March 23, 2002
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DENVER - Lawmakers are close to cinching a compromise on statewide
regulations for issuing concealed weapons permits, something that has
eluded them for years.
Late Friday, Republican leaders in the House and Democrats in the
Senate were fine-tuning carefully crafted wording for legislation
that likely will be introduced early next week.
"It would give us some standards, which is something we don't have
today," said Senate President Stan Matsunaka, D-Loveland.
State law lets sheriffs and police chiefs choose to issue
concealed weapons permits to anyone they want. If they don't want to
issue them, they don't have to.
For those who do, there are no standards.
The compromise bill would require ...