Nevada lawmakers have passed gun safety bills out of committee

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Two gun security payments have handed out of the Meeting Judiciary Committee and are set to be heard on the Meeting Ground.

Meeting Invoice 355 proposes elevating the age to purchase semiautomatic rifles and shotguns in Nevada from 18 to 21.

Lawmakers mentioned Meeting Invoice 355 would make it a gross misdemeanor for anybody beneath 21 to own or management a semiautomatic shotgun or rifle. It will additionally require these weapons to be unloaded and saved in a securely locked container after they’re not getting used.

First-time offenders who allowed anybody beneath 21 to make use of these weapons can be responsible of a class C felony. Second-time offenders may spend one to 6 years in jail together with a tremendous of as much as $5,000.

Meeting Invoice 354 would prohibit folks from possessing firearms inside 100 yards of an election website together with polling locations and areas the place a poll field is current.

In a listening to final week, Senator Jeff Stone mentioned he was involved this might make voting areas a goal for “a mentally unstable particular person reacting to intense division in our nation.”

“There aren’t sufficient public security officers to watch each polling place,” Stone mentioned. “My concern is why not permit people who have lawfully gotten a CCW from a sheriff, following all the protection protocols, to ensure if there may be an lively shooter at a polling place, at the very least now we have ancillary assist to public security that is probably not there to guard the voting public?”

Nevertheless, Tonya Schardt from Brady United In opposition to Gun Violence mentioned extra weapons in public does not essentially make us safer.

“I do not assume that one ought to assume that permitting folks to hold firearms at a polling location would enhance the protection of these there,” Schardt mentioned. “I really assume it really heightens the danger for illegal exercise and will increase the hazard.”

Schardt added there can be exemptions for safety and regulation enforcement officers.