As of today, our bill to protect all Historic Military Vehicles now has 20 co-sponsors and Senator Dave Hansen is taking an active role in promoting the bill on the senate side.
There is also a competing bill that has been introduced by Senator Jon Erpenbach which is a much less detailed bill that proposes to simply add historic military vehicles under that current collector plate rules. It lacks the specifics required to protect our hobby.
We attempted this approach early in the negotiations with the legislature and the DOT. It was found that while a seemingly simple approach, keeping the HMV’s under the collector law will not provide the protection the hobby needs in the future. Please remember that we have crafted this bill to provide protection for owning and operating all wheeled HMV’s, large and small, past current and future and that includes armor as well as thin skinned tactical vehicles.
The possibility that the legislature and the DOT would support unlimited use of any military vehicle is doubtful. We remain committed to the Zigmunt bill as the best proposal for the HMV hobby.
Thanks for your continued interest and support
Jeff
