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Wyoming Military Department asks committee to study firearm-hold agreements, recruitment bonuses, militia statutes and veterans services
Summary
Major General Greg Porter, Adjutant General, asked the Joint Transportation Committee to study a set of military-related interim topics including firearm-hold agreements to reduce suicide risk, a recruiting referral bonus, militia statute cleanup and veterans services clarifications.
Major General Greg Porter, the state Adjutant General, presented several proposed interim topics from the Wyoming Military Department, asking the committee to consider follow-up work on firearm-hold agreements, a recruiting referral bonus, Title 19 statutory cleanup related to militia activation and veterans services including indigent burial authority.
Porter told the committee the firearm-hold agreement proposal was intended to reduce veteran and service-member suicide risk by authorizing a mechanism for temporarily transferring weapons to a third party and clarifying liability protections for the holder. "If somebody was having a really bad day ... they could take their weapons and give it to a friend to hold," Porter said, and the proposed change would relieve the temporary holder from liability when the owner later asks…
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