If we just followed the Constitution, we would not need such a law.
“...shall not be infringed.”
Needing a permit to carry a weapon is an infringement. Being unable to open carry is an infringement.
Its unconstitutional for States to have these kinds of laws, let alone Congress enacting one.
Then would you also say that laws forbidding convicted felons from owning a firearm or young children or the mentally impaired from owning firearms would be unconstitutional as well? Or laws preventing the carrying of firearms into court houses or police stations or schools?
If we just followed the Constitution, we would not need such a law.“...shall not be infringed.”
Needing a permit to carry a weapon is an infringement. Being unable to open carry is an infringement.
Its unconstitutional for States to have these kinds of laws, let alone Congress enacting one.
It's unconstitutional for the FEDERAL government to make such an infringing law. STATES are to have reserved to them the several rights not reserved or declared by the federal government. For example, while CONGRESS cannot make a law establishing a particular religion, any state can (and many have) establish or encourage a particular religion over another.