The Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2015
The Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act would allow gun owners who have a concealed carry permit in their home state to bring their firearms in any other state with concealed-carry laws.
“This operates more or less like a driver’s license,” Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), the second-ranking Republican in the upper chamber, told The Hill. “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.”
Also, if you’re carrying an Alaska survival derringer in your purse, please stop.
February 12th, 2015 at 9:35 pm
Yeah, that was the first reaction I had when seeing that picture…
February 13th, 2015 at 3:36 am
It would be step in the right direction, but Man; I’d rip that word “constitutional” out of there right quick. There’s nothing constitutional about having to purchase a license and be government approved before exercising a basic human right, and after all that still risk arrest in some places within the country.
If the constitution, and more importantly the meaning behind it, is our model, let’s be clear about that meaning. If a licensing system with geographic exceptions is to be declared “constitutional” then we’re shooting ourselves in the foot, so to speak, when it comes to future remedies. If I raise onions and sell you them to you as chicken eggs, and you agree that you are now eating eggs that came from my vegetable garden, then what happens to all the existing recipes that call for eggs? They’re going to taste like shit and be all the wrong consistency. See; it’s not a nitpick.
February 13th, 2015 at 9:55 am
This will be great, all I’d have to do is get my NJ permit first and I’d be good to go…
http://www.justifiableneed.com/
February 13th, 2015 at 11:27 am
This was the most depressing news I had all day yesterday. The GOP is screwing us.
They don’t want this to be law, or they’d do what they tried in the past and make it an amendment to a must-sign bill. There is ZERO chance this becomes law as a stand-alone bill because we cannot override the veto.
Again: They are pushing a bill that has ZERO chance of becoming law, while ignoring the only way to get it into law.
They want it to be filibustered or vetoed. The GOP wants us to feel upset at Dems, so that we will give the GOP our money and votes.
This has been an amendment in the past. McConnell could allow this to be an amendment to the Homeland Security Bill, and it would then be attached to all the immigration stuff that Obama cannot avoid.
But no. They instead are going to send it into the flames – alone – to fail, in hopes that we get pissed enough to help them in 2016.
Don’t be fooled.