Republican lawmakers in the North Carolina House of Representatives voted Wednesday to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of the pistol permit bill.
This means that a person no longer has to obtain a permit from their local sheriff’s office before they can purchase a handgun.
This is the first time Republican lawmakers have successfully overridden the governor’s veto since 2018.
Niko Stucker is the manager at On Target, a local gun store and shooting range in Asheville. His family built the store 35 years ago, and he’s been involved his entire life.
Stucker said the gun industry is filled with people who are super pro-gun and don’t believe there should be any restrictions, but he understands having regulations.
Stucker said, in North Carolina, a person had to be a resident and purchase a permit from the local sheriff’s office to buy a handgun. Now, that has been abolished.
But there will still be a federal background check, like there is for long guns.
“I’m not a huge fan of it, personally,” Stucker said of the move. “As a gun store owner, it puts a little bit more liability on us.”
He said that with the permits going through the sheriff’s office, they handled a lot of the liability.
Having to rely on the FBI’s system isn’t a great scenario for Stucker.
“It’s just their generic check that they use in all 50 states. The sheriff’s department or state-regulated background checks can be a little more specific. They can go into mental health, domestic violence,” Stucker said.
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