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LEGISLATIVE ACTION ALERTS
Items listed on this
page are bills introduced into the General Assembly for the current legislative
session. Some are pro-gun rights bills, most are not. Please contact your
senator and representative to let them you know that you value your rights!
For information about how to locate and contact your elected representatives, and
to discuss these bills and other legislation, please visit our discussion
forum here.
ANTI-RIGHTS BILLS
10 Found:| Bill: | Senate 2233 | | Sponsor: | Perry, Gibbs, Metts, Pichardo, Connors | | Title: | AN ACT RELATING TO WEAPONS | | Description: | ASSAULT WEAPON AND MAGAZINE BAN!!! This bill seeks to ban almost all semi-automatuc firearms and magazines! | | Committee: | Senate Judiciary |
| Bill: | Senate 2148 | | Sponsor: | Damiani, Polisena | | Title: | AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES | | Description: | unlawful for any person to knowingly receive, transport or possess any firearm which has had the importer's or manufacturer's serial number tampered with | | Committee: | Senate Environment and Agriculture |
| Bill: | Senate 2173 | | Sponsor: | Metts, Pichardo, Raptakis | | Title: | AN ACT RELATING TO WEAPONS -- POSSESSION OF FIREARMS BY MINORS | | Description: | Currently, RI law prohibits the possession and use of a firearm by anyone not yet 18 years old (without supervision). This bill seeks to remove the and use part, making simple possession a crime. There is also a bill in the Senate to do the same thing. | | Committee: | Senate Judiciary | | Requested By: | Attorney General |
| Bill: | Senate 2174 | | Sponsor: | Metts, Pichardo, Polisena, Raptakis | | Title: | AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES - WEAPONS | | Description: | This bill seeks to add 10 years prison time for anyone who illegally fores a gun on school grounds. There are already about 30 years which can be charged for this, but the anti-rights crowd wants 10 more. A 16 year old kid who fires a gun at school, even if he or she never aimed it at a person nor hurt anyone, could be imprisoned for 40 years if this passes. There is a bill in the House to do the same thing. | | Committee: | Senate Judiciary | | Requested By: | Attorney General |
| Bill: | Senate 2796 | | Sponsor: | Polisena | | Title: | AN ACT RELATING TO ACTIVE AND RETIRED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS | | Description: | This bill would allow any retired police officer from anywhere in the US to carry a concealed handgun in RI. Retired police officers are not police officers and have no more or less authority than anyone else. This right should be extended to all persons and not limited to a select few. | | Committee: | Senate Judiciary |
| Bill: | House 6959 | | Sponsor: | Diaz, Slater, Almeida, Kilmartin, Sullivan | | Title: | AN ACT RELATING TO WEAPONS -- POSSESSION OF FIREARMS BY MINORS | | Description: | Currently, RI law prohibits the possession and use of a firearm by anyone not yet 18 years old (without supervision). This bill seeks to remove the and use part, making simple possession a crime. There is also a bill in the House to do the same thing. | | Committee: | House Judiciary | | Requested By: | Attorney General |
| Bill: | House 6983 | | Sponsor: | Sullivan, Kilmartin, Moran, O`Neill, Moura | | Title: | AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSE -- WEAPONS | | Description: | This bill seeks to add 10 years prison time for anyone who illegally fores a gun on school grounds. There are already about 30 years which can be charged for this, but the anti-rights crowd wants 10 more. A 16 year old kid who fires a gun at school, even if he or she never aimed it at a person nor hurt anyone, could be imprisoned for 40 years if this passes. There is a bill in the Senate to do the same thing. | | Committee: | House Finance | | Requested By: | Attorney General |
| Bill: | House 7114 | | Sponsor: | Ajello, Moran, Williams, Almeida, Coderre E | | Title: | AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES - WEAPONS | | Description: | This bill would limit the puchase of handguns to one per month and create a central registry of handgun purchaes at the state police. | | Committee: | House Judiciary |
| Bill: | House 7665 | | Sponsor: | Moran, Kilmartin | | Title: | AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES | | Description: | Currently it is illegal to remove marking from a firearm. This bill will make criminals of collectors with collectable firearms which came to the collector without a serial number. | | Committee: | House Judiciary |
| Bill: | House 7322 | | Sponsor: | Ginaitt | | Title: | AN ACT RELATING TO WEAPONS - PAINTBALL GUNS | | Description: | This bill seeks to place truely insane restrictions on the purchase, use and transportation of paint ball guns! The supporters of this bill truely personify the nanny state and are probably paranoid as well. | | Committee: | House Judiciary |
PRO-RIGHTS BILLS3 Found:| Bill: | Senate 2429 | | Sponsor: | Polisena, Damiani | | Title: | AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS | | Description: | person possessing a license/permit for a concealed pistol or revolver, issued by another state which grants RI residents reciprocity with respect to concealed pistol permits/valid concealed pistol permit in RI | | Committee: | Senate Judiciary |
| Bill: | House 6895 | | Sponsor: | Palumbo, Flaherty | | Title: | AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS | | Description: | legal to transport pistols or revolvers within the state as long as the ammunition is located in a different location within the vehicle not readily accessible from the passenger compartment | | Committee: | House Judiciary |
| Bill: | House 6961 | | Sponsor: | Amaral, Moffitt, Long, Loughlin, Jacquard | | Title: | AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSE -- WEAPONS | | Description: | This bill provides for reciprocity of concealed carry permits between RI and states that recognize permits issued by our authorities. GREAT BILL! | | Committee: | House Judiciary |
NUTERAL BILLS6 Found:| Bill: | Senate 2281 | | Sponsor: | Blais, Polisena, Raptakis, Fogarty P, Damiani | | Title: | AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS | | Description: | exempt certain persons including those issued protective orders from the weapons safety requirements of this chapter | | Committee: | Senate Judiciary |
| Bill: | Senate 2282 | | Sponsor: | Blais, Polisena, Raptakis, Fogarty P, Damiani | | Title: | AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS | | Description: | license or permit to carry a pistol or revolver | | Committee: | Senate Judiciary |
| Bill: | Senate 2374 | | Sponsor: | Issa, Doyle | | Title: | AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PUPILS | | Description: | discipline for any public school student who is in possession or use of alcohol, drugs or weapons, would be imposed on a case-by-case basis pursuant to guidelines promulgated by the school committee for that district | | Committee: | Senate Education |
| Bill: | House 7113 | | Sponsor: | Moran, Almeida, Flaherty | | Title: | AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- WEAPONS | | Description: | | | Committee: | House Judiciary |
| Bill: | Senate 2047 | | Sponsor: | Cote | | Title: | AN ACT RELATING TO HUNTING AND HUNTING SAFETY | | Description: | while hunting no person may possess a rifle larger than a 22 caliber rim fire rifle or muzzle loading rifle or a shotgun and shells loaded with ball, bullets, slugs or shot larger than number 2 shot | | Committee: | Senate Environment and Agriculture |
| Bill: | House 7185 | | Sponsor: | Picard | | Title: | AN ACT RELATING TO HUNTING AND HUNTING SAFETY | | Description: | no person may possess a rifle larger than a twenty-two (22) caliber rim fire or muzzle loading rifle or a shotgun and shells loaded with ball, bullets, slugs or shot larger than number two (2) shot, subject to certain exceptions | | Committee: | House Judiciary |
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