HSB 280: Relating to weapons, including eligibility-to-carry requirements and terms used, and making penalties applicable

What it does

This bill relates to weapons, including eligibility-to-carry requirements and terms used. Under current law, a person is ineligible to receive a permit to carry weapons and to carry dangerous weapons if the person is addicted to the use of alcohol; if probable cause exists to believe, based upon documented specific actions of the person, when at least one of the actions occurred within two years immediately preceding the date of the permit application, that the person is likely to use a weapon unlawfully or in such other manner as would endanger the person’s self or others; or if the person has been convicted within the last three years of a serious or aggravated misdemeanor not involving firearms or explosives.

House subcommittee · named March 3, 2025

• Rep. Joshua Meggers (R) · joshua.meggers@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. Bill Gustoff (R) · bill.gustoff@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. Brian Meyer (D) · brian.meyer@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 4 for, 5 against

For: Iowa Firearms Coalition, Inc.; Iowa Gun Owners; Iowa Minuteman Civil Defense Corps; National Rifle Association of America

Against: Dubuque Coalition for Nonviolence (CNV); Episcopal Diocese of Iowa; Interfaith Alliance of Iowa Action Fund; Iowans for Gun Safety; League of Women Voters of Iowa

In plain words

1. March 3, 2025Filed in the House and sent to the Public Safety committee
2. March 3, 2025House subcommittee named: Meggers, Gustoff, Meyer and B
3. March 4, 2025Subcommittee recommended passing it