February 12, 2015 By Greg Campbell
“In what is perhaps the most-logical and long-overdue idea to emerge from our legislative body, Senators will soon have the opportunity to consider allowing citizens with concealed carry permits to exercise their Second Amendment rights across state lines.
While some might call this notion “radical,” many who understand the Constitution would say that this right already exists, but has been, for too-long, kept from the citizens of this nation.
The bill, the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, is being pushed by Texas Senator John Cornyn. Sen. Cornyn defended it, saying, “This operates more or less like a driver’s license. So, for example, if you have a driver’s license in Texas, you can drive in New York, in Utah and other places, subject to the laws of those states.”
Unsurprisingly, the National Rifle Association has signed-on to support the legislation, calling it a “much-needed solution to a real problem for gun owners.”
“The current patchwork of state and local laws is confusing for even the most conscientious and well-informed concealed carry permit holders. This confusion often leads to law-abiding gun owners running afoul of the law when they exercise their right to self-protection while traveling or temporarily living away from home,” stated Chris Cox, the executive director of the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action.
It’s a notion that is sure to rile the “guns cause crime” crowd, but the fact is that guns move illegally through states each and every day in America by criminals.
Heck, even our Attorney General was alright with guns moving across international borders, so surely the anti-Second Amendment crusaders will see this as A-okay, right?
Not likely.
Everytown for Gun Safety President John Feinblatt is suddenly a big “states’ rights” proponent when it comes to allowing states to determine what civil rights citizens will enjoy so long as it is related to firearms.
“Federally imposed concealed carry laws interfere with states’ fundamental right to determine who is too dangerous to carry hidden, loaded guns in public.”
Everytown argues that the bill would states with the “weakest gun laws to trump the reasonable judgments”
Of course, while states should be allowed to determine a great many things, the provisions outlined in the U.S. Constitution are issues reserved for the federal government to decide; it is, therefore, both unlawful and immoral to proclaim that all fifty states must grant the right to free speech, but that states get to pick and choose how they want to approach individual firearm ownership and the practical application of such ownership, the right to carry a weapon.”
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