Posted on 03/19/2025 3:27:02 PM PDT by CFW
Representative Dusty Johnson has re-introduced the Traveler’s Gun Rights Act, a bill attending to a Second Amendment issue constraining firearms rights of those who do not use a permanent physical address, such as many active-duty military personnel and those who live and travel via RV. Companion legislation currently in the Senate is being led by Senator Mike Rounds, and both of these gentlemen are representatives of South Dakota, the state I like to call home and one that still represents strong American values and traditions.
Johnson’s Traveler’s Gun-Rights Act seeks to correct the firearms purchasing process and strengthen Second Amendment rights by relieving prejudice against those who work and live as travelers. Current ATF regulations unduly restrict law-abiding RV-ers, active-duty military, military spouses, and others who rely on a P.O. Box as their primary mailing address from obtaining a firearm, many of whom use these alternate addresses on their driver’s licenses. The legislation passed the House Judiciary Committee in January 2024, and Johnson is steadfast in his effort to see it through.
“Many servicemembers and military spouses haven’t been able to obtain a firearm due to gaps in the address verification process… This is a commonsense bill to ensure these individuals can practice their Second Amendment rights,” says Johnson.
Rounds is equally passionate about Americans not being forced to give up their rights due to a perfectly lawful lifestyle or their willingness to serve and protect the UnitedStates.
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“Active-duty military and Americans who travel full-time often use P.O. boxes as their official and legal point of residence… Sadly, what works for the IRS is not good enough for the ATF, leaving those who serve or travel full-time in a Constitutional catch-22. We thank Rep. Dusty Johnson for his commitment to defending the Second Amendment for all Americans,” says Commerford.
(Excerpt) Read more at thetruthaboutguns.com ...
In other Second Amendment news:
“Permitless Carry Advancing in North Carolina”
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2025/03/19/permitless-carry-advancing-in-north-carolina-n1228027
“The fight to make North Carolina the 30th state to recognize that the right to carry shouldn’t come with a state-issued permission slip is far from over, but things are headed in the right direction in Raleigh.
On Tuesday the Senate Judiciary Committee gave its approval to SB 50, while the House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to take up its companion measure (HB 5) today. As expected, support and opposition to the Senate bill fell along party lines in the Judiciary Committee, with Democrats offering unfounded complaints about the potential consequences of permitless carry. “
It would be nice, but I also remember what happened, or more appropriately what didn’t happen with pro gun legislation last time the pukes held House, Senate, and White House.
While we lived in our RV, we found a Mail Drop service and used it successfully for years. Never had a problem and got a driver’s license in a low tax state. A law enforcement officer did have to visit us at our camp site to verify our VIN was all it took.The address was not a PO Box. It was accepted as residency and voting.
My what a difference between today and the pre-Civil War years.
You really need to read the highly suppressed and now out of print 1982 Senate report on the RKBA. I have a paper copy from the US Government printing office.
Here is an on line copy.
https://guncite.com/journals/senrpt/senrpt.html
“The conclusion is thus inescapable that the history, concept, and wording of the second amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as well as its interpretation by every major commentator and court in the first half-century after its ratification, indicates that what is protected is an individual right of a private citizen to own and carry firearms in a peaceful manner.”
19th century cases
16. * Wilson v. State, 33 Ark. 557, at 560, 34 Am. Rep. 52, at 54 (1878).
“If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the (p.17)penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of constitutional privilege.”
17. * Jennings v. State, 5 Tex. Crim. App. 298, at 300-01 (1878).
“We believe that portion of the act which provides that, in case of conviction, the defendant shall forfeit to the county the weapon or weapons so found on or about his person is not within the scope of legislative authority. * * * One of his most sacred rights is that of having arms for his own defence and that of the State. This right is one of the surest safeguards of liberty and self-preservation.”
18. * Andrews v. State, 50 Tenn. 165, 8 Am. Rep. 8, at 17 (1871).
“The passage from Story (Joseph Story: Comments on the Constitution) shows clearly that this right was intended, as we have maintained in this opinion, and was guaranteed to and to be exercised and enjoyed by the citizen as such, and not by him as a soldier, or in defense solely of his political rights.”
19. * Nunn v. State, 1 Ga. (1 Kel.) 243, at 251 (1846).
“’The right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed.’ The right of the whole people, old and young, men, women and boys, and not militia only, to keep and bear arms of every description, and not such merely as are used by the militia, shall not be infringed, curtailed, or broken in upon, in the smallest degree; and all this for the important end to be attained: the rearing up and qualifying a well-regulated militia, so vitally necessary to the security of a free State.”
And the SCOTUS case that led to the Civil War..
Are Negros citizens...Dred Scott
“It would give to persons of the negro race, who are recognized as citizens in any one state of the Union, the right to enter every other state, whenever they pleased.... and it would give them full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might meet; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to KEEP AND CARRY ARMS wherever they went.”
Paragraph 77 in the link below.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0060_0393_ZO.html
I hate having to disarm my truck when I have to cross the state line into calalafornia. The 2nd amendment is all that is required. Anything outside of it is an infringement.
Use the gun laws that existed in 1776.
Here is the irony... Ever since the Patriot Act you cannot even get a P.O. box unless you can prove a local physical address. Deed, Power Bill, Tax Bill, Etc.
Someone living in their vehicle with no physical address cannot get a P.O. box to use as their address.
One way around the “PO” box issue is to rent a box at a UPS location and designate the box as unit “x” or “apt x”. There will be a street address and a “ unit/apt” number to provide when asked.
You make up a lease with an addresss.
I hate having to disarm my truck when I have to cross the state line into calalafornia. The 2nd amendment is all that is required. Anything outside of it is an infringement.
We made the decision to avoid states that have strict gun-carry rules. It is ridiculous to have to keep a list of which states you are required to stop at the border and lock your gun and ammo in separate locations. It restricts our RV trips to a few surrounding southern states only, but at our age we’ve seen enough and have no reason or desire to visit any Democrat controlled states.
The Second Amendment is a right, not a law, and it applies to all law-abiding citizens nationwide. We shouldn’t have different rules for every state. It is like having different laws in each state regarding quartering of soldiers in your home.
Now add over the road truckers.
Yup. Just locking it up to go into calalafornia doesn’t work. But, we perform over there frequently so...... 🐂💨💩!
When I was in the Marine Corps I had a home of record, just like everyone else. It doesn’t have to be the place where you entered service at. Just a state where you became a resident or were already a resident of.
“nor take on the responsibilities of being in a community.”
You mean tied down barely struggling to pay a mortgage, having to deal with an HOA, taxes, and expenses of a home when you could instead be out fishing, enjoying nature, and fairly financially secure on the small amount you get from SS or pension.
Right now the biggest RV enthusiasts living comfortable on lower incomes are seniors because they barely make enough to afford the expenses of a home. And they like not being enslaved by these financial burdens and hardships.
They are free from all the hardships and expenses of “being stuck in a community”. They are free to just start up and move somewhere else when they like. They are not enslaved by the conformities of society.
Why not? They will have to travel back to that home state to vote. They will still have to pay income taxes if any owed in that state. They are required to be a citizen of just one state. You can be a dual resident in some states but you have to pick one as your home state and citizenship. And why not be a citizen of the best state you can with the most advantages? Isn’t that the idea of choosing a state to be a citizen? That is the advantage of not being tied down. It is easier to shop for a better state to be a citizen of.
Even trucking companies have to be “based” out of one state no matter where all their trucks happen to be parked around the country. They can have satellite terminals around the country, but they have to have a company home state. And that is where they register all their vehicles and pay taxes. So that state gets their business. And that state wants that business so they make it more affordable to register commercial vehicles on purpose to get that business.
While I am in favor of this bill, I would like to see provisions added to it which protect the right of ALL travelers who are law-abiding gun owners to carry the means for effective self protection anywhere within the United States, including its territories. The RKBA is a federally-protected right and no state, locality or territory should have the power to interfere with those rights and thereby violate the Constitution.
ALL travelers, not just RVers.
Yep. I place a lot of the blame on the shoulders of that squirrely jerk Paul Ryan, though there is plenty of blame to go around.
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