Please sign the petition.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pe...s-17-million-concealed-handgun-permit-holders
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pe...s-17-million-concealed-handgun-permit-holders
I will reiterate my position on this every time it comes up:. I am hesitant to further diminish the 10th Amendment and give the federal government a say in something they quite clearly have no legitimate authority in regulating (.....shall not be infringed.)
The federal government is cancer that destroys anything it touches. National Reciprocity promulgated from DC will eventually come with federally mandated requirements and check boxes, along with some form of certification/licensing scheme - and all the hard work that has seen concealed carry make huge strides in the last 20 years will be swept away.
We're already winning the fight over carry Rights without Washington, DC.
People see this as a means to force Anti-Rights shitholes like NY, California and Illinois into submission. What it will really be is a federal yoke upon every State in the union.
Having been a Special Agent in a major federal law enforcement agency for over 27 years and now age-related retired, I had more than one occasion to be a "fly on the wall" while observing the political machinations of our elected Representatives and Congressmen (non-gender specific). I liken National Reciprocity to allowing the camel to stick his nose under the tent flap. Simply put, National Reciprocity = National Registration.
However, i would argue that the Fed has a duty to uphold the 2nd...
The citizenry has a duty to uphold it, as well, independent of what Uncle thinks of the right and irregardless of whether or not he does his job to preserve/protect it.
That sounds all well and good, but we aren't invading NYC or California anytime soon and their populations couldn't care less...