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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I've always been a fan of the comma (sometimes too much so, according to some people):
Let's eat grandma ...
Let's eat, grandma ...
LOL!
Yeah, I can see where that would have been a bit of a surprise! Living in places that haven’t ripped up the Constitution is a nice thing.
So far so good. WINNING!
Ah! The date at the top of this article should be 11-30-2017, not 1-30-2017. My mistake, sorry.
If a lot of commas were good enough for the Founding Fathers, they are good enough for me.
I am melancholy about this. You really think places like the Peoples Republic of Taxachuetts will let this go? Just like if someone dies in MA, Federal Law is now 3 to 5 million before Estate Taxes, but not in MA. No no no. They went back to the 1 million w/ a progressive rate above that. You think they will take this sitting down? How about Connecticut? New York? KaliPornia? etc etc etc? They will fight this tooth and nail, bet on it...
You forgot the /sarc/ tag.
I used a “/S”, which I thought was a recognizable alternative to “/sarc.”
One of the reasons is that it has been decisively shown that CCW holders have extremely low rates of crimes.
I'd like to visit New England again, but I won't as long as they don't honor my permit.
What about 49-state permit reciprocity in DC?
I’m exhausted from all this winning.
Good news. The last time I traveled to the state of Oregon, I was denied my Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
This was just a committee vote so it hasn't even made it out of the house.....
Yup...but, that's determined BEFORE you get the CCW permit.
“I like the law but do not like Federal power over the states. Can always return to haunt in many different areas.”
I have a very hard time trying to understand your logic. You seem to be saying that even though The Bill of Rights is enshrined as Federal Law, somehow you think that any state that takes issue with any of them, should have the right to do so.
How about a State that decides to “license” the First Amendment, would that be alright with you? While like you, I think Federal Law should be only concerned with the enumerated powers the Constitution grants to the Federal Government, The Second Amendment is a RIGHT GUARANTEED by the Constitution and therefore we are long overdue in having the Federal Government protect every one of those rights, and not decide to leave out the Second Amendment.
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