To my knowledge, there is no federal statutory law concerning the issuance of concealed-carry permits. All fifty states have passed laws allowing qualified individuals to carry certain concealed firearms in public, either without a permit or after obtaining a permit from a designated government authority at the state and/or local level.
My problem is that the states have allowed the feds to delve into states rights and thus have a greater control of a militia or even create a national list of gun owners which is not the intent of the founders and their efforts to supply states with their own ability to defend themselves even from the feds.
In a 2013 article from the New York Times, Jack Heeley wrote:
“Lawmakers in at least 15 states have introduced bills that would nullify any new efforts [in Washington] to further restrict access to guns or high-capacity magazines within their borders. Some have provocative language calling for states to arrest and prosecute federal agents who dare to enforce new firearms regulations.”
This scares the feds to death. Hence sneaking into state laws to gain more control. Even if it costs the states the ability to provide deterrent to crimes proven in many extended obsrvations. And that’s what it’s all about. Control and power, not democratic theory.
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There is the Second Amendment.
Unfortunately, it is not being enforced.