The House of Representatives must have benefited from that reading of the Constitution at the beginning of the session last January. Someone may have noticed the "full faith and credit" clause. That's the one that says every state must give full recognition of the legal acts of every other state. That's the reason why your driver's license from Iowa is sufficient to drive in Missouri. It's why your marriage license gets you the same rights and privileges in every state...almost. It should be the reason why the concealed carry permit issued in one of the 41 states of the union is valid in every other state. Now they've taken a step in that direction.
House Overwhelmingly Approves Reciprocity Bill
Now we can only sit back and watch as the Senate tries to direct our attention away from the short man manipulating the levers behind the curtain which Toto has just pulled aside.
We'll again hear about Dodge City shoot-outs and unbridled mayhem when citizens who have been background checked and certified by their states exercise their Second Amendment rights. We will be asked to ignore the history of concealed carry everywhere it has been enacted and nod in favor of the places with the strictest gun control in the nation which clearly demonstrate that such control does not eliminate gun crime and actually exacerbates the violence which plagues the society of defenseless victims.
Anybody think that the Senate will pass this? Wanna buy a bridge in Brooklyn?
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I'm still pondering the Brady Bunch talking head's comment "would make it easier for the Jared Loughners of the world to pack heat on our streets and in our communities."
Ah, well, I guess that's the type of pablum one expects from that group.
1. Scalia made it clear in Heller that your right to a firearm was for the defense of your home. Therefore a CCW is like a drivers license in the sense that it is a priveledge not a right.
2. To make reciprocal CCW work you need something similar to the interstate driving compact. My guess is that the Federal Law that sets up a reciprocal CCW Compact will need to address training since self defense varies from state to state and what constitutes a prohibited posessor. Each state can then decide for itself if they wish to join the compact. I suspect the present version was written with votes in mind and not practicality
3. I do support reciprocal CCW interstae compact written in a rational way.
4. Obama doesn't need to veto the present version, it won't get out of the senate.
~Leadfoot
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