LEGISLATION

2016: Passed Constitutional Carry

SB 1389 was not full Constitutional Carry as the ISAA had proposed, but it was the culmination of four long years of fighting in Boise to get the requirement for a permit removed.

2018: Passed a Codification of Stand-Your-Ground

After the initial passage of Constitutional Carry, the ISAA began pushing the expansion of Idaho’s Stand-Your-Ground law. The legislature ended up codifying what was in existing case law but refused to expand the law to include criminal immunity, which is the fight the ISAA is now pushing.

2019: Passed an Expansion of Constitutional Carry

The bill, sponsored by Sen. Christy Zito, expanded Constitutional Carry, which lowered the age limit to carry a handgun with no permit from 21 to 18 years old.

This was already the law outside of city limits. ISAA aimed to bring the law in line inside city limits with what it was outside of city limits. The artificial border made no sense, and thankfully, the legislature saw that and removed the barrier.

2020: Passed another expansion of Constitutional Carry

The bill, also sponsored by Sen. Christy Zito, expanded Constitutional Carry for a final time, expanding it to include all Americans and not just Idaho citizens.

Just as with the city limit restriction, the limit to Idaho citizens only applied to inside city limits. It didn’t make any sense, and the barrier was removed.

We are now almost nine years since Constitutional Carry, and the doom and gloom predicted by gun grabbers has not materialized as predicted.

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Firearm Preemption Project (2013 to Current)

The ISAA started a project in 2013 called the “Preemption Project.”

The goal was to ensure that Idaho’s cities and counties were complying with Idaho’s firearm preemption law. The law (18-3302J) prohibits cities and counties from enacting their own forms of gun control. The purpose of the law is to prevent a patchwork of gun laws across the state.

The ISAA has helped overturn or correct nearly 90 violations of the firearm preemption statute.

You can read more details about the project here.

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Stopping Gun Control

Idaho is unique in that full-blown gun control laws are rarely proposed. Even Democrat legislators don’t ever propose gun control because the odds of a bill such as “Red Flag laws,” falsely labeled “Assault Weapons Bans,” and other unconstitutional and ineffective laws are likely not to see the light of day.

However, the ISAA closely watches the legislature and speaks out against issues that could have a detrimental impact on gun owners.

For instance, in 2019, the ISAA spoke out against a proposal known as “Marsy’s Law,” which as written at the time, contained similar language to Red Flag Gun Confiscation Orders. The proposal was killed by the legislature.

In 2023, the legislature was discussing a bill that would allow Idahoans to sue mobile phone manufacturers over pornography issues. The ISAA raised concerns that using the logic of suing the manufacturer, not of the pornography, but of the device itself, would lay the groundwork for gun manufacturers to be sued in Idaho. The legislature killed the proposal.

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Elected Official Accountability

EXPOSED Gun-Grabbers in the Legislature using direct mail, email, radio/TV ads, digital and internet ads, and a door-to-door lit-dropping program. This educational program has led to DOZENS of anti-gun moderates being removed from office!