Posted on 03/27/2009 1:07:32 PM PDT by ME-262
WASHINGTON—U.S. Congressman Todd Tiahrt (R-Goddard) today co-sponsored the National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Bill (H.R. 197). This legislation would protect the rights of licensed firearm permit holders by allowing them to carry firearms across the country without a confusing patchwork system.
"The National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Bill recognizes that those who have a valid state-issued concealed firearms permit should not have to forfeit their safety when traveling," said Tiahrt. "Not only does this bill protect the rights of concealed firearm permit holders, it also maintains the right of states to issue concealed weapons permits as they desire. As a mobile society, legal firearm permit carriers should be able to travel from state to state and exercise their fundamental right to self defense—this legislation ensures that."
Specifically, the National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Bill would allow any person with a valid concealed firearm carrying permit or license, issued by a state, to carry a concealed firearm in any state, as follows:
* In states that issue concealed firearm permits, a state’s laws governing where concealed firearms may be carried would apply within its borders. * In states that do not issue carry permits, a federal "bright-line" standard would permit carrying in places other than police stations; courthouses; public polling places; meetings of state, county, or municipal governing bodies; schools; passenger areas of airports; and certain other locations. * The bill applies to D.C., Puerto Rico and U.S. territories. * It would not create a federal licensing system; it would require the states to recognize each others’ carry permits, just as they recognize drivers’ licenses and carry permits held by armored car guards.
I’d be more than happy to hold on to your SIG during your stay here. ;^)
I wonder what it will do for states like mine (Vermont) where there’s no permitting at all. I can buy what I like and stuff it down my pants and walk out of the store with it that day LOL, as long as I have a VT drivers license (may not even need that, not sure).
I’d hate to see permitting come into VT just so I can carry through other states. I wish they’d just accept VT residency as permit enough but they probably won’t (if they even pass this which would be a shock).
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As much as I’d love this, isn’t this a State issue?
Makes sense to me - but, that’s the problem. Obambi and his socialist friends won’t agree.
Equal rights??
I thought we already had that right in the Constitution? sarc/off
We all have a right to carry permit. It was written a couple hundred years ago.
As much as I’d love this, isn’t this a State issue?
I'll make it easy for you....No. Not unless you have it disassembled in the trunk of your car with no ammunition.
That's not a legal opinion just that in New York for example you can get 3 1/2 years just for carrying the gun. Unless of course you are a celebtard, professional athlete or member of an oppressed minority.
I love this Bill!
Personally don’t want to see anymore legislation good or bad that instills more give and taketh away POWER to the Federal Government which shouldn’t be involved in most of the laws they are anyway.
The Fed has usurped the POWER of the States, thus the people.
What we need is the States to stand up to the Fed and put them in their place.
I could be wrong, but this looks to be the First common sense, non-knee-jerk Bill this year. Did Nancy Pelosi get pulled over in DC for carrying or something? There’s gotta be a knee-jerk connection here somewhere! Actually, I kinda enjoyed finding routes to avoid blue states when I travel! Oh well, guess I could save some gas and ‘try out’ one of those blue, non-carry, states someday. Doubt if I’d ever stay overnite in one tho’! Just wouldn’t be prudent at this juncture!
You dont have to get out at Texline. NM law makes your car an extension of your home.
Well, that’s one.
The rest are still lined up over at Oz waiting for theirs.
In Alaska we do....carry concealed without a permit.
It is, but when you have 1/5th of the states that restrict the 2nd Amendment and various “approved” areas, then this is where the Interstate commerce clause of the Constitution is supposed to come into play. Taking away the growing confusion of what states recognize what states would prevent people from accidently making a mistake. Not only that, but some states only recognize “resident” permits, so if you hold a Utah or Florida permit (the most widely recognized permits), you cannot carry in those states.
I live in a state where they “may issue” if you have 3 documented death threats or are famous, a politician or carry a lot of money as a business owner, stand up straight at noon, use your sun dial properly, and then scratch and sniff three stickers and properly identify the scents. I’d be happy to backdoor through their hoops via this kind of legislation!
Actually, there are some common sense exclusion zones.
No firearms, or anything metal for that matter, near an MRI, unless you want to have your clothes torn off by a powerful magnetic field. The same applies to high temperature, high vibration, and explosive gases areas. Oddly enough, I’m not kidding. This happens all the time. (Some people have zero situational awareness. I had to physically restrain a guy who wanted to smoke a cigarette while standing in a half inch pool of gasoline.)
I agree. The only federal "law" that I personally want to see is one of my own composition, reading:
- Title 18, Part I, Chapter 44 of the U.S. Code is hereby repealed.
- Title 26, Subtitle E, Chapter 53 of the U.S. Code is hereby repealed.
(Title 18, Chapter 44 is the chapter dealing with federal criminal laws with respect to firearms, and can be found, for instance, here at Cornell. Title 26, Chapter 53 is the chapter of the Internal Revenue Code that is an utter blight on the RKBA; it can be found here at Cornell also.)
However, with this current Congress and current administration, I don't even want to see my own act go through the legislative sausage mill right now: by the time Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid got through with it, it would end up instead as the fondest hopes of HCI realized rather than their nemesis.
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