I really don’t see “shall issue” states and residents having a problem with a CCW license. As a Florida CCW I do not mind having training and a background check. Also knowing others have done the same. I believe that CCW in the early years of this country was considered “hiding something”...open carry was acceptable and the norm. So having a CCW permit is “fair” as long as it is a “shall issue” upon request. Rules, like those in NJ, WI and IL are without a doubt Unconstitutional because the right is flat out denied.
Fine. Make it voluntary for those like you.
Requiring a permit is an infringement on keeping and bearing arms, therefore it is unconstitutional. You are correct on one thing, carrying concealed used to be frowned upon and open carry was the norm, but nanny staters managed to brain wash enough of the public to the point many of them have screaming fits if they see a gun, so now open carry is considered, by many, to be "bad".
CCWs are BS. Did you know there is one state that doesn't require a permit to carry? You didn't? don't feel bad, most people don't know that. Look it up.
You're kidding, right?
I think that with a bit more investigation you may find this to not be entirely factual. While it was generally understood that farmers, frontiersman, and travelers would be openly armed, it was considered by the genteel to be boorish to openly bear.
It was primarily a fear of uppity negroes that drove concealed carry laws and while the laws had existed in the South, they did not for the most part spread North until freed slaves openly moved North.
CCW was and always will be about controlling the masses.
It was, is, and in various other ways always will be racist.
It was and is, like almost all of the laws offensive to liberty, another fine legislative product of the Democrat party.