U.S. Congress - H.R.197 National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2009
H.R.197 - National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2009
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide a national standard in accordance with which nonresidents of a State may carry concealed firearms in the State. view all titles (2)
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- Short: National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2009 as introduced.
- Official: To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide a national standard in accordance with which nonresidents of a State may carry concealed firearms in the State. as introduced.
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This will simplify legal requirements for traveling to different states
Amen to this. I just got my VA CCW permit a month ago, and was moderately irritated to find out that i can only carry with it in one neighboring state.
And not all of our neighboring states!!! I recently got my VA CC permit also....be sure to check the laws before you cross into another state carrying.
Hooray! It's about time.
Maybe the last couple of hold out states on CWP will finally get the hint.
it's a common sense law and I appluad those that have introduced it. hopefully it will past and be another road black to the Gun-Banners.
I will be sure to ask my Rep. "Rooney", to sign on to this bill.
As a CWP license holder who travels, this bill will allow me the right to legally carry through other states. I appreciate the opportunity to provide my family and myself self defense protection from potential criminals. Thank you for this bill.
As a Concealed Carry Permit instuctor I know that this will help us achieve unifomity in the laws, which will eliminate a lot of confusion !! Weall want to be safe and adhere to the laws, we just need to be able to know what they are !
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Yes, please. The more Reich wingnuts in prison, the less chance the Republicans have to win another election.
Seems you're worried about the next election and Republicans gaining a "win", so you really do have some sense of the outrage.
Thanks to the precedent set by the Dems, prisoners can vote in prison, probably multiple times.
and dead people. i wonder if my cat fluffy voted.
The natural right of a human being to defend theirselves makes this a perfectly logical bill. Too bad we have to have individual laws when our 2nd Amendment rights have already been "certified" by the Supreme Court.
Amen brother!
Amen. "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
AMEN
The only thing holding me back from supporting this is that, if this passes, then the states loose the ability to decide their own CCW laws, and could a rouge Congress just "do away" with the federal CCW laws?
I am not too worried about that, because states are still the deciding power in allowing the carry law. And nothing with this bill prevents a state from loosening or allowing non-permitted concealed or open carry.
It just mandates that CCW permits be treated in like fashion as driver's licenses. (Imagine if you needed to have a driver's license for each state you drove in, or a non-resident's license...unless your state had reciprocity. But said reciprocity changes constantly. No one would drive out of state. Or we'd just break the laws.)
When you put it in that perspective, it becomes very sane. Not all states have the same requirements for a driver's license. But all states recognize each other's driver's license.
Maybe it needs to be a designation. Class A carry permit. As I know some states have a variety of sub-licenses (ie: farm licenses that allow a 13 yr old to drive).
It doesn't say that. It says that they have to honor each others permits. But yes a ROGUE congress could, has, and does, do away with whatever of your rights they want. This just isn't one of the times that they are doing that.
I too was worried about the implications to individual States' rights with this bill, and then I thought about it a bit more. First off.. the 2nd Amendment states that the right to keep AND BEAR arms "shall not be infringed". Meaning that technically everyone should already be legally allowed to carry. States that do not "allow" their citizens to carry concealed or otherwise, are infringing on their citizens' rights.
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The 2nd Amendment aside, look at this like a driver's license. My driver's license is issued in Florida, but allows me to drive in Florida and NJ.. and the rest of the United States. My CCW permit is issued in Florida, and through reciprocity legislation agreements among several states, allows me to carry in those states. It does NOT allow me to carry throughout the U.S. This bill would treat the CCW permit essentially like the driver's licenses we all hold. This would eliminate a great deal of confusion when traveling from state to state by establishing essentially one set of requirements for ALL states. It would also disallow the infringement of the rights of citizens of the states that currently do not "allow" CCW.
This is a good, and simple piece of legislature.
this law does not give Congress or the federal government the right to set law on right to carry. it says the just like states recognize a drivers license from other states and that the drive has a right to drive a car while in the other state. This bill states that a state must recognize the right of an individual to carry in a conceal maner even if that state does not issue conceal carry permits.this law would in effect defeat the opression of denying conceal carry in states becuase their citizens could get a CCP in another state and thier home state would HAVE TO HONOR IT!!!!!!!DC residents could get a CCP in Virginia and DC could not prevent them from carrying on DC streets. It's a beautiful Law.Hope it passes
Not the case. The CCW would have to issued by your home state. Currently I have a NV and UT permit. I will no longer need my UT permit as UT will be required to respect my NV permit.
For my friends in CA, there is not a snowball's chance that CA will issue them a permit so their only option will be to permit each state individually and not carry in their home state. Their NV, UT, FL permit will not be honored in CA as they are a CA residents.
JohnF California does have CCW permits. The county that I live in has about 1400 of them. We are looking forward to this legislation being revived.
I thought I read where each states concealed carry laws would be applicable and one would have to know the laws of the state they were going to travel to. I hope I misread that because if one has a concealed carry permit, all one needs to do is carry and not have to worry about being legal regardless of where they may go. Churches, schools and even D.C. for that matter. I reiterate Euclid 543 concerning the second amendment but the supreme court is/will be the problem as long as they can interpret the Bill of Rights to suit their political ambitions.
That seems true. But its like a drivers license: if you live in PA and drive into OH, you are bound by the rules of the roads in Ohio. And unless you do something blatantly against the law like bringing your gun into a school, they're not going to say anything technically. Hopefully it will extend like a drivers license being that your car, registered in another state, has to comply to the laws of the state it is registered in, thus being that because I'm a resident of say Texas, Illinois gun laws won't apply to what weapons I can own.
Common sense. Simple Standard. Less permit holder confusion. Less ENFORCEMENT confusion. 10th amendment notwithstanding, this would be a good thing and hopefully this is something which ALL states would participate in to keep things simple for a change.
I fully support this bill and hope it passes and is signed. The Congress needs to realize people that legally own a gun go above and be on to follow all laws. The real problem is illegally owned guns by felons that are in gangs and so forth (i.e. Chicago). Chicago's crime rate wouldn't be as high if they had concealed carry. As for individual laws per state and city governments it never hurts to find out what is legal and what isn't.
This bill seems like a back door attempt at Federal Gun Control. Yes, I agree we the people have already been given the right to bear arms by our forefathers blood and bravery, yet should we give, even interstate gun control to the Government? SEE BELOW:
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
OR; Article IV states:
Section. 2. The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
So, we already have the applicable right to bear arms in any state. So, who really needs this bill? The lawmakers and Federal pockets that will be filled by, Registration costs paid by us to be put on a Gun ownership list and kept track of Federally.