National reciprocity
6 Responses to “National reciprocity”
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April 1st, 2011 at 10:25 am
NO! If it is a national bill, that gives the .gov the ability to start regulating it!
Let the states agree on state issues!
April 1st, 2011 at 11:10 am
This is safe to support, unfortunately.
This is one of those single page bills that is easy to read the full text of. It’s meant to show the sponsors are pro-RKBA, not to change the status quo.
The only way this could get passed is if it was attached at the last minute to some omnibus must pass funding BS
I note with amusement that the bill only applies to firearms that have moved interstate or have been imported. Obviously this would apply to all of them, if you owned it legally in your home state and carried in another.
April 1st, 2011 at 11:11 am
“passed and signed by the president”, I neglected to add.
April 1st, 2011 at 12:44 pm
I’ll agree with Jim S. It’s safe to support as it’s written now, but it gives the Feds a framework to start quietly tacking amendments on to in the future.
The number of states that allow concealed carry is growing. Reciprocity is growing. The number of states that are “shall issue” is growing. There are cases either in the courts now or coming soon that stand a good chance of getting rulings that “may issue” is unconstitutional. I think it won’t be too much longer before we have de facto national concealed carry without having to involve the vagaries and fickle uncertainty of Congress.
We’re probably going to be better off in the long run continuing with the current trend, rather than going through Congress.
April 1st, 2011 at 4:17 pm
I like the idea in principle (in terms of the outcome being achieved) – but I’d prefer it happen by the States agreeing to it themselves.
It seems like a Federalism issue, really.
Is it actually any of the Federal government’s proper business to do that?
I don’t know at all that it is.
(I’m not too worried about the Feds encroaching “just because there’s a law”, since they could do that now with exactly as much/little chance of success.)
April 1st, 2011 at 5:45 pm
Given that the 2nd is incorporated by the 14th, which grants congress the “power to enforce” by appropriate legislation, yes, it is the fed.gov’s business.
They’ve already forced the states to issue permits to (most) retired LEOs.