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Firearms deal­er and range op­er­a­tor, Jethro John, of the In­ter­na­tion­al De­fen­sive Pis­tol As­so­ci­a­tion (ID­PA)  has de­scribed a re­cent high-lev­el stake­hold­er meet­ing with Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty, Roger Alexan­der, on mat­ters re­lat­ed to the stand-your-ground law as a suc­cess.

It comes one week af­ter Alexan­der as­sured stake­hold­ers, in­clud­ing those in the firearm in­dus­try, that they will be in­clud­ed in con­sul­ta­tions on the craft­ing of the leg­is­la­tion.

John, who co­or­di­nat­ed and chaired the near­ly three-hour-long ses­sion on Sun­day at the Ch­agua­nas Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce, told Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day that 25 peo­ple from across the in­dus­try par­tic­i­pat­ed in talks and shared their per­spec­tives on the pro­posed up­dates to the leg­is­la­tion cur­rent­ly un­der re­view.