Posted on 04/24/2014 6:56:00 PM PDT by dontreadthis
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — With concealed weapons now legal in all 50 states, the National Rifle Association's focus at this week's annual meeting is less about enacting additional state protections than on making sure the permits already issued still apply when the gun owners travel across the country.
"Right now it takes some legal research to find out where you are or are not legal depending on where you are," said Guy Relford, an attorney who has sued communities for violating an Indiana law that bars local gun regulation. "I don't think that's right."
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I have to disagree with your position. The USA is 50 sovereign states. Those 50 states each have state constitutions and they do not control anything beyond their own states borders. That is the way the way the Founders planned it and I would love to see it returned to that plan.
Give it a few years and with some luck we may just find America will have Constitution Carry. No permits, fees or approvals needed.
While I generally go for states rights I think it be fun to give the libs a taste of their own medicine by debating this.
Like I said above, lib judges force states to recognize liberals states gay marriages, gay marriage licenses, without a universal marriage law calling for it.
They just make it up.
this NRA measure does not work to strengthen 2A.
It attempts to facilitate the right, but does so via Congress.
When has Congress ever facilitated anything
“We should be forcing our Federal government to adhere to it, then it wouldn’t be an issue”
We need to quit electing democrats for a start.
That would be ideal.
Liberalism is a poison, from both Democrats and Republicans, you are correct.
How about just giving full faith and credit to a concealed carry permit holder nationwide?
National gun carry reciprocity is long overdue. The burden shouldn’t be on citizens exercising their right: the burden of making it clear with warnings, signs, etc. (”We deny your 2nd amendment right to keep and bear arms in our city/establishment, and you face civil and criminal penalties for exercising your right ...”) should be on the municipality, business, individual infringing on the right clearly set forth in the Bill of Rights
The point is to extend the Constitution’s “full faith & credit” clause to gun licensing: whatever permits you to own & carry in your state is recognized as valid in the state visited. This leads to oddities like any Vermont government-issued proof of residency constituting possession rights in DC (falling in the “not bloody likely” category of real-world sociopolitics).
Alas, it still misses the point of RKBA, and further entrenches the non-sequitur notion that any level of government may require permission to exercise a right.
Corrected: If you have not been otherwise adjudicated as warranting suspension of rights (felony, etc), then ...
I agree.. I don’t have to check with other states before I use my drivers license to drive through their state..
Why should carrying my weapon be any different?
“Federal gun laws are seldom a good thing. If you’re responsible enough to carry you should be responsible enough to research and familiarize yourself with the laws.” -cripplecreek
bttt
It’s a state matter, not a federal matter. The nationalizing-socialist leftists would love to usurp that authority -— so please, do not let them.
bttt
Where in the Constitution does it say that we need to be licensed to bear arms? I am sick of this sort of pandering to the fascists who want to erode our rights.
The second amendment is the universal gun law
“Federal gun laws are seldom a good thing. If you’re responsible enough to carry you should be responsible enough to research and familiarize yourself with the laws.”
I agree. Nothing but mischief can come of the feds getting involved in this. Let the states work it out.
I figure that if the full faith and credit clause can be used to force one state to accept another state’s wedding permit, then the same should be true for carry permits as well.
If the Full Faith and Credit clause means one state has to recognize another states “gay” marriages, then they have to recognize the CCW permits as well. Case closed.
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