Posted on 07/14/2021 8:32:59 AM PDT by marktwain
Iowa and Tennessee are two of the five states which have restored Constitutional Carry so far in 2021. In both states the Constitutional Carry (permitless carry) bills took effect on Thursday, 1 July, just ahead of Independence Day, July 4th.
Constitutional Carry is a reasonable facsimile of the state of the law when the Second Amendment was ratified in 1791. At the time, no state or federal law required government permission in order to carry personal weapons, either openly or concealed.
In Iowa, the Constitutional Carry bill contained other reforms. The bill was signed into law on 2 April by Governor Kim Reynolds. It removed the Iowa requirement for a permit to purchase a pistol, which was separate from the federal National Instant background Check System (NICS). From kpvi.com:
Effective July 1, Iowa no longer requires certain residents to have a permit to acquire or permit to carry to purchase handguns from federally licensed firearms dealers.
Iowa has moved from a relatively restrictive state, where you had to ask government permission to purchase or carry a handgun, to a state where the Second Amendment is honored most of the time in most places. There have always been a few places where the carry of weapons was regulated, such as in prisons and powder houses. Private property owners could exclude armed people if they so desired.
In Tennessee, Governor Bill Lee signed the Constitutional Carry (permitless carry) into law on 8 April, a week after Governor Kim Reynolds of Iowa signed their Constitutional Carry bill into law. From wsmv.com:
NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) – Several new laws will go into effect today in Tennessee.
Among them, the controversial constitutional carry bill, which allows Tennesseans 21 and older to carry a gun
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Texas starts ours on Sep 1.
Do the 21 states that have carry laws coincide with the states that the feds are sending illegals?
Here in Arizona we’re on the Direct Deposit plan.
The Constitutional Carry states are:
Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
You decide.
Actually, if they sent all the illegals to Alaska to await their court hearings, they’d probably stop coming here.
Tennessee did not pass “Constitutional Carry”. It is a weak attempt to appear conservative.
What this law does is EXEMPT people from an existing “intent to go armed” law IF certain criteria are met. I’m keeping my permit, and will make sure to pay for it until I’m in the ground, unless they take it away from me.
My permit allows me to carry in places where the “Constitutional Carry” law does not.
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