Don't believe there was a vote before the end of the legislative session.
Some folks got upset when they saw the guy open carrying at a subway.
https://www.northeastshooters.com/vbulletin/threads/300109-OC-in-CT-Guy-is-asked-to-leave-Subway
[h=1]Bridgeport officials push to clarify Connecticut’s open carry gun law[/h]HARTFORD >> Bridgeport officials and police officers are imploring legislators to act before the end of the legislative session on a bill allowing law enforcement to ask a person to see their permit to carry a firearm, regardless of whether the individual was suspected of criminal activity.
Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim — at a press conference Wednesday morning with Bridgeport police officers, Police Chief AJ Perez, Sen. Ed Gomes and Rep. Steve Stafstrom, both D-Bridgeport, asked for passage of H.B. 5408, “An Act Concerning the Presentation of a Carry Permit.”
The bill passed by a vote of 16-9 out of the Public Safety Committee and now awaits action by the House of Representatives, but time is running out. The 2016 legislative session ends at midnight May 4.
“No one is questioning anyone’s constitutionally protected right to bear arms, but we also have a high degree of gun violence in communities like Bridgeport, so we want to protect the public and make the already dangerous job of being a police officer clearer,” Ganim said.
Under the current law, officers can’t ask a person to see their permit if they don’t see the weapon and the person is not committing a crime.
Law enforcement officers throughout Connecticut have called for the bill after a video surfaced in January in which an individual was openly carrying a pistol in a downtown Bridgeport Subway franchise.
When Bridgeport police officers — responding to a call for suspicious activity by an armed person — asked to see the man’s permit, the individual challenged the officers’ right to demand he show his permit, and the individual was let go.
The video pointed out ambiguities in state gun laws surrounding open carry of firearms, since under existing law a police officer can only ask to see a firearms permit if the officer has reasonable suspicion that a crime is being committed.
Some folks got upset when they saw the guy open carrying at a subway.
https://www.northeastshooters.com/vbulletin/threads/300109-OC-in-CT-Guy-is-asked-to-leave-Subway
[h=1]Bridgeport officials push to clarify Connecticut’s open carry gun law[/h]HARTFORD >> Bridgeport officials and police officers are imploring legislators to act before the end of the legislative session on a bill allowing law enforcement to ask a person to see their permit to carry a firearm, regardless of whether the individual was suspected of criminal activity.
Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim — at a press conference Wednesday morning with Bridgeport police officers, Police Chief AJ Perez, Sen. Ed Gomes and Rep. Steve Stafstrom, both D-Bridgeport, asked for passage of H.B. 5408, “An Act Concerning the Presentation of a Carry Permit.”
The bill passed by a vote of 16-9 out of the Public Safety Committee and now awaits action by the House of Representatives, but time is running out. The 2016 legislative session ends at midnight May 4.
“No one is questioning anyone’s constitutionally protected right to bear arms, but we also have a high degree of gun violence in communities like Bridgeport, so we want to protect the public and make the already dangerous job of being a police officer clearer,” Ganim said.
Under the current law, officers can’t ask a person to see their permit if they don’t see the weapon and the person is not committing a crime.
Law enforcement officers throughout Connecticut have called for the bill after a video surfaced in January in which an individual was openly carrying a pistol in a downtown Bridgeport Subway franchise.
When Bridgeport police officers — responding to a call for suspicious activity by an armed person — asked to see the man’s permit, the individual challenged the officers’ right to demand he show his permit, and the individual was let go.
The video pointed out ambiguities in state gun laws surrounding open carry of firearms, since under existing law a police officer can only ask to see a firearms permit if the officer has reasonable suspicion that a crime is being committed.