The Montana legislature has passed a constitutional carry bill to bring the last .6% of the state into harmony with the rest of the state. HB 298 will make the legal conditions for the carry of firearms the same inside unmarked city boundaries as outside of those unmarked boundaries. The bill passed the Senate 28 to 21. It passed the House 56 to 43. The Governor of Montana is a Democrat, Steve Bullock. It remains to be seen if Governor Bullock will do the same as Governor Tomblin of West Virginia, and veto a popular bill when he sees the opportunity.
Governor Bullock won a squeaker of an election in 2012 with 48.9 percent of the vote, while the Republican candidate received 47.3%. The Libertarian candidate got 1.75% of the vote, more than twice the difference between the two major candidates of 7,571 votes.
Governors are a target in gutting popular gun reforms because they are a focal point where media pressure and billionaire money can be brought to bear. It may be that a similar phenomena occurs when local officials go to federal office. Suddenly, the focus of the old media is on them, and all the power of the progressive establishment it used to convert or defeat them.
There are simply too many local officials for the national media to focus on; but there are only 50 governors.
The growing disillusion with Democrat party policies at home and abroad might give pause to Governor Bullock when he considers vetoing this popular bill. He is coming up for election in 2016.
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