IFC Legislative Agenda for the Great State of Iowa includes the following and more to come:
Safer Families Act (provisions of HF654 – passed by the House on April 12, 2023)
Intended to eliminate most of the few remaining “No Guns Zones” in Iowa law
Repeals ban on firearms and ammunition in
Vehicles on the grounds of correctional facilities
Vehicles in publicly accessible parking lots operated by state or local government
Vehicles transporting foster children
School vehicles transporting pupils (authorized armed staff only)
Allows for permit holders to have a concealed handgun in their vehicle when dropping off or picking up at a school
Prohibits state universities and community colleges from banning lawfully possessed weapons in vehicles on their grounds
Repeals the ban on firearms in state-licensed gambling facilities
Repeals the statutes on “manner of conveyance” of long guns in vehicles
Provides for firearm safety Instruction in schools
Provides necessary clean-up of some language in Iowa Code 724 in the wake of the 2021 adoption of permitless carry of weapons
Full 2A Rights for Young Adults
IFC will again seek to remove statutory restrictions on handguns affecting young adults aged 18-20.
2A/4A Protection in Private Parking Lots
IFC will again seek to pass legislation prohibiting employers from disciplining or firing employees who lawfully possess weapons or ammunition in their vehicles on employer-provided parking areas.
Gadsden Flag License Plate to Fund 2A Education and Training
IFC will seek to create an Iowa Gadsden Flag license plate, with funds devoted to 2A education and training, with first priority to IFC or similar groups
Require Iowa Government Agencies to Auction Seized Firearms
IFC will seek to require public disposition of seized firearms, rather than have them all go to the state’s crime lab or be destroyed.
Remove Conservation Officers’ Authority for Warrantless Searches
Investigations on private property must honor Fourth Amendment rights by requiring probable cause, permission or a warrant.
Additionally, there are items in the code that need to be removed and the code streamlined. Things like “724.29 Firearm devices. A person who sells or offers for sale a manual or power-driven trigger activating device constructed and designed so that when attached to a firearm increases the rate of fire of the firearm is guilty of an aggravated misdemeanor. 90 Acts, ch 1147, §1” aren’t relevant, weren’t well constructed at the time, and should cease being in code. To quote my dear friend, Richard Rogers:
“The state has no constitutional or moral authority to regulate the weapons that the people may possess or carry. The law’s proper purpose is to restrain or punish actual bad (criminal) behavior. The Supreme Court has now repeatedly affirmed that Second Amendment rights are fundamental, not second class, rights. A new resolve to strike down government overreach is spreading across the nation and the world. Iowa’s legislators need to take this opportunity and amend or repeal our state’s laws accordingly.”
-Richard Rogers – Iowa Firearms Coalition Board Member, Chief Lobbyist, and NRA Distinguished Advocate Award Winner
Micah Cope is with IFC this week from CopeWERX talking about edged weapons, EDCs, blade choices, steels, and more for Warrior Wednesday. See his reviews and learn more @CopeWERX and check out the blade buy/sell/swap page on FB too!
Protecting the Flock… Join IFC and Cornerstone Bible Fellowship in Newton for an eye-opening 2-hour presentation by Ed Monk exploring why churches, schools, and businesses continue to fail in making active shooter plans. This could be the most important perspective on the subject of stopping terror in your presence you ever considered. Join us.
Date: March 18th, 2025 Location:Cornerstone Bible Fellowship – Newton IA Time: 6:00 to 8:30 (30-minute break in the middle with food/drink purchases available from the church’s youth group) Cost: FREE (donations suggested to cover Ed’s travel, lodging, and fees, with the balance being given to the church) Please RSVP BELOW – Seating is limited to 250
IFC encourages members of law enforcement, church or school security teams, armed civilians, and anyone interested in mitigating the threat of active killers to attend this science-based presentation.
About Ed Monk: Ed Monk grew up shooting firearms of all types from the time he was 5 years old. After going through West Point, he served as a U.S. Army Officer for 20 years retiring as a Lt. Colonel and Battalion Commander in 2007. Since retiring from the military, Ed has continued in Law Enforcement but also picked up a very specific training focus along the way.
Ed became very interested in the study of active shooters and how to best stop them some years ago. After retiring, Ed sought out advanced levels of personal professional development by becoming a Rangemaster certified instructor (master level) for handguns, certified by ALERRT as a CRASE instructor and by Response Options (which became ALICE) as an instructor for Solo Officer Response to Active Killers.
From his lifetime of momentum of protection, came his laser focus on understanding and countering the active shooter threat. Ed began to see there was very little specific attention given towards training based on how to counter that threat in a realistic, logical way that saves the most lives.
Really? Yes, there are over 44 million AR-15s in the United States.
In an unusual twist to my weekly 2A Wrap-Up, I will highlight a video of David Thompson at the 2024 convention of The Federalist Society. Mr. Thompson is the managing partner at Cooper & Kirk and one of the nation’s foremost litigators who works closely with The Second Amendment Foundation and several other 2A groups.
Two points I’d like to highlight from David’s speech —
First: Anti-gun dangerous quacks claim that AR-15s are too lethal for civilians to own:
“The entire history of firearms is the relentless, continual search for more lethality and more accuracy,” he explained. “These are instruments that determine your life or your death, whether you live free or as a slave.”
Second: Those same anti-gun dangerous quacks want you to believe that the Framers could not envision modern firearms. They clearly could, and did in 1777 when a twenty-shot repeating firearm was made available for demonstration. As Justice Anthony Scalia quotes in Heller, and David Thompson points out in his video:
“The Constitution protects advancements in arms
as much as it protects advancements in speech or the press.”
Why this matters:
David Thompson makes the very reasoned argument that increased lethality is exactly what the Framers intended when they enshrined our God-given Right to Keep and Bear Arms in our Bill of Rights. Mark A. Smith of The Four Boxes Diner introduced Thompson’s powerful, short, ten-minute video. Watch it here, and bookmark it for future reference.
Hopefully, President Trump will clean out the nest of anti-gun dangerous quacks in the Federal Government starting promptly on January 20th.
VOTE! Today’s the day that matters. That’s this week’s 2A Wrap-Up message. Even if you’re not registered to vote, in Iowa you can do same-day registration. If you need to find your polling place you can do so here.
From an old essay by David Codrea, a gun rights activist and journalist at The War on Guns:
“...Has humanity truly demonstrated a benevolence and maturity that distinguishes our era from those that preceded us? In a culture that breeds gang warfare, rampant violence, city-crippling riots, and national murders measured in the tens of thousands, how can anyone credibly claim that the need for individual defense is a relic of the past?
Where in history is any civilization guaranteed stasis? Has not despotism and mass destruction plagued every civilization that preceded ours? Is it not, in fact, still commonplace throughout the globe? By what suspension of reality, by what denial of the observable and the probable, by what art, device, or magic are we sheltered few immune from catastrophe? Are we certain, from our brief and privileged vantage point, that such things will ever remain headline curiosities? Is it not just plain stupid to proclaim that our familiar way of life will forever be the norm, when everything that has gone before us shows we are, instead, the extremely lucky beneficiaries of a rare and fortunate convergence of circumstances; and one, by the way, that has only been preserved under force of arms?...”
Those dangerous quacks want you disarmed. Don’t let them win.
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