{"id":2007830,"date":"2023-08-22T08:18:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T12:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/carney-signs-bills-tightening-delawares-gun-control-laws\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T08:19:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T12:19:01","slug":"carney-signs-bills-tightening-delawares-gun-control-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/carney-signs-bills-tightening-delawares-gun-control-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Carney enacts laws to strengthen Delaware&#8217;s gun control."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcarney-signs-bills-tightening-delawares-gun-control-laws%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2007830&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Gun Owners in Delaware Face \u200cNew Restrictions on Carrying Firearms<\/h2>\n<p>Gun owners in Delaware will now face stricter regulations on carrying firearms in certain locations, according to a pair of \u200dbills signed\u2062 by Governor \u200cJohn \u2063Carney. These measures aim to enhance safety by prohibiting the carrying\u2064 of firearms at schools, entertainment venues, and polling stations.<\/p>\n<h3>Protecting Safe Zones and Election Sites<\/h3>\n<p>One of \u200cthe bills, signed\u200c on \u200dFriday, establishes a\u2062 &#8220;safe \u2063zone&#8221; around schools\u200c and entertainment properties,\u200c within which carrying concealed firearms \u200cis prohibited for all Delawareans \u2064except <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-secretary-of-state-investigating-voter-registration-group-run-by-democrat-raphael-warnock\/\" title=\"Georgia Secretary Of State Investigating Voter Registration Group Run By Democrat Raphael Warnock\">law enforcement officers<\/a>.\u2064 Students found\u200c with weapons in these areas may face expulsion for\u2063 up to 90\u200c days.<\/p>\n<p>The second measure restricts\u200d the\u200b carrying\u200b of guns at polling locations during federal, state,\u2063 and local \u2063elections, \u200dallowing only on-duty police officers,\u200c security guards, and active-duty \u2064military members to be armed.<\/p>\n<h3>Addressing Concerns and Upholding Rights<\/h3>\n<p>These bills were championed by \u200cDemocrats who argued \u2062that \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-calls-for-commonsense-gun-safety-laws-after-atlanta-shootings\/\" title=\"Obama Calls For \u2018Commonsense Gun Safety Laws\u2019 After Atlanta Shootings\">stricter gun control measures<\/a> were necessary in light of the increasing number of school shootings\u2063 and gun violence \u2064across the nation. However, Second Amendment groups have voiced\u2063 opposition, \u2064contending that \u200dthese changes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/carney-signs-bills-tightening-delawares-gun-control-laws\/\" title=\"Carney enacts laws to strengthen Delaware's gun control.\">unfairly penalize law-abiding\u2064 gun owners<\/a> without effectively addressing the issue of illegal firearms.<\/p>\n<p>During the legislative debate, Republican lawmakers raised concerns about the effectiveness of these restrictions in\u2062 preventing school shootings\u2064 and expressed worries \u2062about potential infringements on the rights of lawful gun owners\u200b in the state.<\/p>\n<h3>Expected\u200b Legal\u200d Challenges<\/h3>\n<p>As with previous attempts to tighten Delaware&#8217;s gun \u2063control laws, these\u200b newly signed \u200dbills \u2062are anticipated to face legal challenges\u200d from Second Amendment groups. Last year, Governor Carney signed a comprehensive package of gun\u2062 control measures, which also encountered legal opposition.<\/p>\n<p>The sportsman\u200d association, a state-level affiliate of \u200dthe National Rifle Association, filed a lawsuit arguing that the stricter restrictions violated Second Amendment rights and Delaware&#8217;s Constitution, which\u2064 guarantees the right \u200bto own and\u200c carry \u2063firearms.<\/p>\n<p>The outcome \u2062of the case is still pending, but \u2062it is \u2064part of a broader trend \u2063of legal challenges across the country following the U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling in the N.Y. State \u2064Rifle and Pistol Association\u200c v. Bruen&#8217;s case. This decision prompted reviews of firearm \u200blicensing laws \u2064in Democrat-led states, leading \u2064to further legal battles with Second Amendment groups.<\/p>\n<p>Gun owners and \u200badvocates on both sides\u200d of the debate\u200c will be closely watching \u2062the developments in Delaware as the legal landscape surrounding gun control continues\u2064 to evolve.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here to read \u2062more from The Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delaware&#8217;s Governor, John Carney, has signed two bills prohibiting gun owners from carrying firearms at schools, entertainment venues, and polling stations. One bill, signed on Friday, restricts all Delawareans, except law enforcement officers, from carrying concealed firearms within 1,000 feet of school &#8220;safe zones&#8221; or entertainment properties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2007831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2007830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2007831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}