New Castle County Executive Matt Meyer on Thursday signed one final piece of gun safety legislation in his tenure. And the head of a gun rights group says it’s just another Democrat move to restrict those rights. Meyer, the Democrat nominee for Delaware governor, enacted Ordinance 24-084, which will restrict where future firearm retail businesses can be located within the …
Private schools will be exempted from parts of Delaware’s Safe School Zone law, which focuses on who is allowed to have a firearm on campus, under a bill that seems headed to the Senate floor. Senate Bill 224, sponsored by Senate Minority Whip Brian Pettyjohn, R-Georgetown, exempts certain employees of a private school from the Safe School Zone law. Only …
Just days after a fatal shooting of an 18-year-old woman on Delaware State University’s campus, the state General Assembly moved on with a bill creating felonies for people with guns in Safe School Zones. House Bill 311, sponsored by Rep. Cyndie Romer, D-Newark, adds post-secondary colleges and universities to the Safe School Zone criminal offense. That means any person who …
