“The fight won’t be over until every state has (at the very least) “shall issue” concealed carry laws.”
It will never be over. Eternal vigilance.
However, a good first step would be national reciprocity. That would put enormous pressure on the scoff-law states, like MD, to loosen their elitist may issue laws.
National reciprocity would be a great thing, especially if it applied to DC as well (which I think would be perfectly in line with the founders’ vision for the capital). I think I saw on the Gun Owners of America website yesterday that there are a couple bills proposing that before the House.
Of course, then you have the question of which state’s laws apply: the state issuing the permit or the state in which the permit holder happens to be. In other words, if someone from a state that cares about the Constitution happens to be in the Socialist State of New York, can they use their standard-capacity magazines, or are they limited to 7-shooters like the New Yorkers? Odds are it would be the latter unless you are driving through (thanks to FOPA). Then the next step would be firearms law preemption, that no state can make more restrictive laws regarding firearms than the US law.