Outdoor News Daily

Yesterday, the Governor’s appropriations bill was assigned a number H.4971 and was referred to the House Committee on Ways & Means. As reported earlier this week, sections 24-27 will drastically increase certain firearm license fees.

Sections 24 & 25 will increase state licensed firearm dealer’s fees from $100 for three years to $250. In addition, licensed dealers will be charged an additional $100 inspection fee per year during each of the three years. This proposed bill would turn a $100 three-year dealer’s license into a $450 three-year license.
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Four bills that pose a very serious threat to our Second Amendment rights are in various stages of the legislative process.

Earlier this week, Assembly Bill 1634 was moved out of the Senate Appropriations Committee. It now heads to the Senate floor where it could be considered any day.

AB1634 is being pushed by radical animal “rights” and anti-hunting organizations and is an affront to our hunting heritage and private property rights. This bill, in its amended form, would dramatically increase the fines imposed against dog owners when “intact” dogs are impounded by animal control officials. A third impoundment in a dog’s lifetime would result in a mandatory spay or neuter order with the cost of the procedure to be covered by the owner.
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COLETO CREEK Water clear; 88 degrees (96 degrees at discharge); 2.60′ low. Black bass are slow. Striped bass are slow. White bass are slow. Crappie are slow. Channel and blue catfish are slow. Yellow catfish to 6 pounds are fair on trotlines baited with live perch.

NORTH SABINE Redfish are good in the marsh on small topwaters and in the river on live shad. Trout are good while drifting slicks and pods of bait on topwaters and soft plastics in the middle of the lake.

SOUTH SABINE Trout are good on the Reef on soft plastics and live shrimp. Trout are good under diving gulls on soft plastics. Trout are good at the jetty on live shrimp and topwaters.

BOLIVAR Redfish are good around Rollover Pass on croakers and live shrimp. Trout are fair around Rollover on DOA Shrimp and Little Fishies.
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On Thursday, July 17, the North Carolina House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 2081 by a vote of 111 to 0. SB 2081 will now head to the desk of Governor Mike Easley (D) for his consideration. This legislation makes critical changes to North Carolina law in order to get the Tar Heel State in compliance with the federal “NICS Improvement Amendments Act,” which was signed into law in January of this year. This federal law provides financial incentives to states to make records of prohibited individuals available for use in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). As it relates to S 2081 in North Carolina, “The NICS Improvement Amendments Act” requires states to establish a system that would allow individuals who have been involuntarily committed, by a court, to a mental health treatment program to have their commitment reported to NICS. Individuals with such commitments are already prohibited under federal law from purchasing or possessing a firearm, but not all applicable commitments are currently reported to NICS.
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On Thursday July 10, Governor Jennifer Granholm (D) signed into law the Post-Purchase “Safety Inspection” Repeal Package.

These important bills, Senate Bill 370 and House Bills 4490 and 4491, will remove the cumbersome post-purchase “safety inspection” on handguns and will go into immediate effect. The requirement of a safety inspection was a burdensome waste of time for law-abiding gun owners and these bills will address that inconvenience.