00SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 14 am H                                                                                     
01 Relating to support for federal legislation permitting state concealed handgun                                          
02 permittees to carry concealed handguns in other states.                                                                 
03 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
04  WHEREAS, in 1994, residents of the state were allowed to receive permits to carry                                      
05 concealed handguns for their personal protection and defense and to effectuate the rights                               
06 guaranteed to those residents under the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution                              
07 and art. I, sec. 19, of the Constitution of the State of Alaska; and                                                    
08  WHEREAS many states have provided their residents with the authority to carry                                          
09 concealed handguns as this state has; and                                                                               
10  WHEREAS this need and desire for personal protection and defense does not end at                                       
11 the borders of the state of a person's residence; and                                                                   
12  WHEREAS there is only limited and haphazard reciprocity allowing concealed                                             
13 handgun permittees of one state to carry a concealed handgun or receive a permit to carry a                             
14 concealed handgun in another state; and                                                                                 

01  WHEREAS H.R. 339 has been introduced in the United States House of                                                     
02 Representatives to allow concealed handgun permittees of one state to carry concealed                                   
03 handguns in each of the other states;                                                                                   
04  BE IT RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature supports H.R. 339 that                                                
05 effectuates the citizens' rights to bear arms for their personal protection and defense and urges                       
06 that it be passed by both the United States House of Representatives and the United States                              
07 Senate as soon as possible in the 105th Congress.                                                                       
08  COPIES of this resolution shall be sent to the Honorable Ted Stevens and the                                           
09 Honorable Frank Murkowski, U.S. Senators, and the Honorable Don Young, U.S.                                             
10 Representative, members of the Alaska delegation in Congress.