Posted on 11/30/2017 10:19:20 AM PST by blam
The House Judiciary Committee voted 19-11 late Wednesday for the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017. This bill would amend the federal criminal code to allow the concealed carry of guns across state lines for all concealed carry permit holders.
Should this bill become a law, states will not be able to impose their individual requirements for a concealed carry license on those who have a license to conceal in a different state. The left is already terrified.
Republicans rejected Democratic amendments that would ban violent offenders from qualifying under the law (because violent offenders cannot obtain a concealed carry permit anyway), as well as a change that would have prevented forum shopping; which means a New York resident barred from obtaining a concealed carry permit could instead send away for one from somewhere else. The bill, which has more than 200 co-sponsors, almost all Republicans, will now head to the floor of the 435-member House. A similar bill, with 38 Republican co-sponsors, is pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
All this bill does is extend the right to carry a concealed firearm IF one is licensed to do so in all 50 states, regardless of the state that issued the license. There isn’t really a reason for liberals to freak out, yet they are.
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Great news!
THIS is why we need to get rid of the electoral college and give the liberal cities control of the country. One man, one vote (even dead men).
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About time...Now take the next step...
This bill does more than the actual reading. It also exposes vulnerable democrats in red states without harming any republicans.
Bump!
No one’s is freaking out. This will pass and it will pass easily. It is not really a party line thing.
Do this BEFORE Christmas and make it effective January 1, 2018. No reason that can’t be done. Trump needs to call on House and Senate to put this very simple bill on his desk before they break for Christmas. Make it real!!!
Judiciary Committee, not full House. Good movement, but didn’t “pass the House”.
I’ll never forget going to a gun store in Arizona after moving from New York.
I visited a gun shop and told him I had just moved from NY and I was unfamiliar with the laws regarding handgun purchase in AZ.
I asked him “what do I have to do to buy this revolver?”. He said “Give me $450”
It’s a grand day whenever progressives freak out over freedom!
Cuomo, Schneiderman, at al, will be in court the next day trying to have it declared...... unconstitutional.
I would imagine their argument will be based on “states” rights and this would infringe on those rights.
I think this is good news, but we’ll see if this passes.
In the unlikely even it even gets a floor vote in the House, and then passes, it will DIE in the Senate.
As certain as the day is long.
This seems to me, similar to how states recognize other states drivers licenses. Nobody complains about that.
“This will pass and it will pass easily. It is not really a party line thing.”
IF, and I do mean IF Ryan allows a full floor vote, it will only be because he knows it will die in the Senate. There is no way in hell there’s 60 votes for this. You won’t even get all Republican Senators to vote for it.
And it may not even get out of Senate Committee, if taken up at all.
Maybe I won’t have to break the law when I visit relatives in the future....
When does this go into effect?
YAY!
Senate will kill it.
I like the law but do not like Federal power over the states. Can always return to haunt in many different areas.
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