Petition For Universal Recognition of State’s Concealed Weapon Permits

petitions.whitehouse.gov ^ | July 8, 2016 | J.M.

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Law Enforcement Officer Safety Act (LEOSA) is a good example of how it could work. An off-duty Law Enforcement Officer (LEO) can carry concealed weapons in any state. They can even carry concealed in states like California and New York even if they are not from those states. The LEOSA allows officers to do that. And when in other states an officer must comply with the off-duty carry rules of the state he is in just as it applies to their own off-duty officers.

The LEOSA does not require any sort of federal license. Instead, it requires states to recognize the officer’s authority to carry as granted by his own state. The LEOSA has a basic set of criteria. It requires the officer is paid and required by his agency to carry a firearm, that the state has LEO training standards and the officer met them, and that the agency requires periodic qualification and that the officer maintains it. That’s sort of a summary. The important thing is that the LEOSA does not specify what the training is, what the shooting qualification criteria is, or anything like that. It acknowledges the home state and agency requirements and then requires all states to honor that.

I see universal recognition of concealed carry permits working like that.