According to Knife Rights, the Georgia House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee has been assigned SB432, the Knife Law Preemption bill that would repeal all local knife ordinances more restrictive than state law. The committee will consider SB432 in the coming days.
If you are a Georgia resident it is vital that you call the committee members.
If you are a BLADE Show (www.bladeshow.com) attendee from outside of Georgia, then you need to email and/or call ALL of the committee members (listed below) and ask them to vote YES on SB432.
Once again, we need your help to get this bill passed. Your calls and emails made a big impact in the Georgia Senate when they passed the bill last week. Now, please call or email and ask the members of the committee to vote YES on SB432 when it is before them for consideration.
In your email or when you talk to each representative’s secretary, tell him or her that that you are a BLADE Show attendee or exhibitor and that the BLADE Show represents MILLIONS of dollars to the Georgia economy. It also represents many hundreds of JOBS in Georgia. All those hotels and restaurants we stay at and eat in during BLADE Show employ many hundreds of people and SB432 will help support the BLADE Show! You deserve to not have to worry about local knife restrictions when traveling to and attending the BLADE Show, and even a single unjustified and highly publicized arrest could adversely affect BLADE Show attendance!
Use Email SUBJECT: Please Vote Yes on SB432.
Ann Purcell – Chairman Dist 159 – ann.purcell@house.ga.gov Phone: 404-656-5139
Willie Talton – Vice Chairman Dist 145 – willie.talton@house.ga.gov Phone: 404-656-5116
Bob Hanner – Dist 148 – bob.hanner@house.ga.gov Phone: 404-656-7859
Bill Maddox – Dist 127 – billy.maddox@house.ga.gov Phone: 404-656-3947
Jay Neal – Dist 1 – jay.neal@house.ga.gov Phone: 404-656-5138
Billy Horne – Dist 71 – gahouse71@yahoo.com Phone: 404-656-0287
Scott Holcomb – Dist 82 – scott.holcomb@house.ga.gov Phone: 404-656-6372
Gloria Frazier -Dist 123 – frazier26@comcast.net Phone: 404-656-0265
Kevin Cooke -Dist 18 – kevin.cooke@house.ga.gov Phone: 404-656-0325
Darlene Taylor – Dist 173 – darlene@rose.net Phone: 404-656- 0177
Yasmin Neal -Dist 75 – yasmin.neal@house.ga.gov Phone: 404-656-0265
Doug Collins -Dist 27 – doug.collins@house.ga.gov Phone: 404-656-7737
Tim Bearden -Dist 68 – tim.bearden@house.ga.gov Phone: 404-656-0287
Knife Law Preemption protects honest citizens from a patchwork of local ordinances and rules that can entrap those traveling within or through a state in possession of knives that meet state law or wherever they live in the state. A person can be charged with a violation of law when they have no intention of violating the law.
For more information, click on www.KnifeRights.org.
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