I’ve been peppered with messages from folks asking me to blog on the national right-to-carry reciprocity bill introduced today in Congress.
(The Hill) – Gun owners would be allowed to carry concealed weapons around the country under new legislation introduced in the Senate.
The Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act would allow gun owners who have a concealed carry permit in their home state to bring their firearms in any other state with concealed-carry laws.
“This operates more or less like a driver’s license,” Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), the second-ranking Republican in the upper chamber, told The Hill. “So, for example, if you have a driver’s license in Texas, you can drive in New York, in Utah and other places, subject to the laws of those states.”
Yes, a bill has been introduced to allow national reciprocity. Yes, it would mean you or I could go to California or see some of the Revolutionary War sights in Massachusetts and New York State and be able to carry the means with which to defend ourselves.
This proposal *might* make it through Congress. At the very least, it will be great to get some Senators and Congressmen on record as to their support (or lack thereof) of basic civil rights when it comes to guns.
President Barack Hussein Obama will never sign the bill into law and I am skeptical we would have the votes to over-ride an Obama veto.
So, while the bill has been introduced, don’t get your hopes up.
It’s got about as much chance at passage as a bill to eliminate Obamacare.
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