HB 439

House committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following changes. Removes changes to defined term ordinary pocket knife in GS 14-269 (offense of carrying concealed weapons). Changes the scope of the new exemption for persons meeting the five conditions listed, from the entirety of GS 14-269, to just GS 14-269(a) (prohibiting carrying concealed listed knives and other weapons except for pistols or guns). Adds eight further conditions that must be met for the exemption to apply, including that the person: (1) is not a fugitive from justice; (2) is not an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance; (3) has not been adjudicated as mentally defective and has not been committed to any mental institution at 16 years of age or older; (4) is not an alien, either illegally or unlawfully in the United States; (5) has not been discharged from the Armed Forces under dishonorable conditions; (6) having been a citizen of the United States, has not renounced their citizenship; (7) is not subject to a court order that restrains the person from harassing, stalking, or threatening their intimate partner or child, or engaging in other conduct that would place an intimate partner in reasonable fear of bodily injury to the partner or child; and (8) has not been convicted in any court of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence. Makes technical changes.