SENATE VERSION OF NATIONAL RIGHT-TO-CARRY BILL INTRODUCED

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U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) recently introduced S. 388--the Senate version of H.R. 226, a national Right-to-Carry reciprocity bill that would provide national reciprocity for state carry licensees. This legislation would allow any person with a valid carry permit or license issued by a state to carry a concealed firearm in any other state if they meet certain criteria. The bill would not create a federal licensing system; it would simply require the states to recognize each other's carry permits, just as they recognize drivers' licenses.

For more information on these bills, please visit www.nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?ID=189.

Please be sure to contact your U.S. Senators and Representative and ask them to cosponsor and support S. 388 and H.R. 226! You can call your U.S. Senators at (202) 224-3121, and your U.S. Representative at (202) 225-3121.
 
"Shall not be infringed" is the "Supreme law of the Land" the "laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding" and the "Judges of every State shall be bound thereby."

We don't need more legislation. We need all the unConstitutional legislation removed from the books.
 
Can't anyone see this is just sucking up. This doesn't have a chance in hell of passing.


Pop quiz....

Q: Why didn't he introduce this (or if it was, why didn't it pass) while the Republicans were in power for 12 years?

A: Because they don't actually care.


Now if you can read between the lines, this is called pandering.
 
I'm pretty angry about this bill. Why? Because it wasn't introduced 3 months ago. Because it likely does no good to introduce it now, and it seems like political posturing.

Granted, I'm somewhat glad that Thune did it, being as I'm from SD, but still... why didn't he do it several months ago?!

As for taking bad, unconstitutional laws off the books? Are you crazy? They're lawmakers. They don't un-make laws, just make them.
 
I am with ya... Why didn't they introduce this and other favorable laws / repeals when they had the bloody chance?
 
I don't understand why everyone's flipping out about this bill. It would end all reciprocity issues for us, which would be great. The timing may not be great, but if we raise enough stink, it might pass.
 
I'm pretty angry about this bill. Why? Because it wasn't introduced 3 months ago. Because it likely does no good to introduce it now, and it seems like political posturing.
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A bill was introduced last year in both the House and Senate - it was never voted on. I believe that other similar bills have been introduced in the past as well - just never voted.

It is easy to introduce a bill to make it look like you stand for something when you know it will never see a vote.
 
Most here complain about a overreaching federal government … and much of that overreaching in accomplished by a stretched reading of the commerce clause. These bills also base their authority on the commerce clause.

If it not OK to continually expand federal power under commerce clause, it should not be OK to do so even if you like a particular expansion.

I would be much happier if the Bills said the law was being past pursuant to the 2A or 14A or some other legitimate source of federal power … but I just can not agree with more commerce clause power – even if I like the general result.
 
As mentioned above, this has been introduced before. It just hasn't gone anywhere.

Does anyone else think that it is a good sign that here we are the end of January and we have people complaining about pro-carry bills instead of lamenting all the sweeping gun bans that were predicted to be pushed through the second Pelosi walked through the door?

I'm not saying to let down our guard, but the sky doesn't seem to be falling as fast as was anticipated.
 
Does anyone else think that it is a good sign that here we are the end of January and we have people complaining about pro-carry bills instead of lamenting all the sweeping gun bans that were predicted to be pushed through the second Pelosi walked through the door?
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They will be waiting for 2008. No need to poison the well till after you've drunk your fill. They aren't going to risk their chance to control the entire government just to pass some gun control now, there will be plenty of time for that later.
 
I don't understand why everyone's flipping out about this bill. It would end all reciprocity issues for us, which would be great. The timing may not be great, but if we raise enough stink, it might pass.
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Why? Because while the Republicans (remember, they're the pro-gun party!) held the federal House and Senate for 12 years, and the whitehouse for the last 7 of those years, they have done (excuse me) sh*t-all to help firearm owners, and turn back the clock on unConstitutional legislation. Only now that they can do nothing do they even try.

Thune is rated 'A' by the NRA. He's been in office for two whole years, and has personally sponsored (not co-sponsored) 46 bills to date. Why has it taken him so long for someone with an A-rating from the NRA from the state with the highest per-capita of CCW licenses in the nation to propose this bill?
 
JJY, you pose a good point.

However, this reciprocity should already be apparent under the same rules and regulations which allow our drivers' licenses to have authority in other states. A better bill should've simply been to clarify and underwrite state CCW licenses as applicable by the same allowances.

I don't really see this as creeping federalism. This was what the Constitution was written for.
 
That is why 6 years ago I quit the Republican party and registered as an independent. Republicans have done NOTHING POSITIVE for us, law abiding firearms owners. I don;t call not passing any new gun control legislation doing something positive. For 12 years they could have done something. They should have done away with the AWB on day one! Instead they simply let it expire, that's ridiculous. The REPUBLICRATS, both parties want the same thing just choos different routes to get there, are all entrenched in D.C. and have no connection to the average citizen anymore. Can anyone name one positive thing that the Repubs did for us gun owners in 12 years? Remember, they appealed to us and we landed them all there in D.C. I guess I'm just getting a bit jaded in my old age, rant over.
 
I am of the mindset that since we see year after year countless Anti-Gun Bills thrown around, including the same ones over and over;;;;;and over, then we should do the same. Maybe if we start pushing back a little, it will keep them off balance somewhat. In other words,,, LET THEM HAVE IT!
 
don't understand why everyone's flipping out about this bill. It would end all reciprocity issues for us, which would be great. The timing may not be great, but if we raise enough stink, it might pass.
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Because what the government giveth, the government can taketh away.

If your state decides to end concealed carry licenses, and you feel strongly enough about it, you can move to another state.

Where do you move to when the federel government ends concealed carry?
 
The federal government couldn't end concealed carry, they could end the forced reciprocity... and I would think that most of the states are reasonable enough that if that happened many would still recognize carry permits from any state.

This law is really to stick it to the few states with carry permits, but hold them for the privledged few. NJ,NY,MD,CA,MA,ect...
 
I have this image of Federal Concealed Carry being passed by Democrats, but they'd be using your fingerprints as a stepping stone to National Handgun Registration... as in "see, you registered for (federal) concealed carry, so you should have no problem registering all your handgun purchases". I'm surprised nobody else mentioned this.
 
Schumer, Lautenberg and Feinstein kept blocking this bill.

It would not have passed the Senate.

The NRA and the Republican leadership knew that.

Some folks on hear apparently do not.

:rolleyes:
 
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