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U.S. House Passes NRA-backed National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Legislation
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<blockquote data-quote="henschman" data-source="post: 1661463" data-attributes="member: 4235"><p>My beef with this bill is that it further legitimizes state laws that infringe on the RKBA. </p><p></p><p>Now if Congress passed a law mandating nationwide constitutional carry, I would probably support it, because of Congress' authority under the 14th Amendment: </p><p></p><p>14th Amendment Section 1: "nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." </p><p>14th Amendment Section 2: "The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."</p><p></p><p>I believe that the right to keep and bear arms is implicated by all three of the items mentioned in Section 1 (life, liberty, and property), and I believe that any form of prior restraint on that right (including a licensure requirement) is a violation. </p><p></p><p>I suppose the CC reciprocity bill lessens the infringement a little bit, since it would basically force all states to accept licenses from the state with the least requirements -- for example it would force all states to honor my Maine non-resident permit, which doesn't require fingerprinting, only costs $60, and whose training requirement can be met by taking a 20 minute online class... but it still legitimizes an infringement by requiring a person to have some form of permission slip from a state government in order to be granted reciprocity, and it expressly states that all state requirements for licensees are still in effect (officer notification, prohibited places, etc.)</p><p></p><p>I suppose it could start a "race to the bottom," for states with the least restrictive CCL requirements... one state could conceivably start printing out documents titled "concealed carry permit" and issuing them to anyone who wants one, from any state, for the cost of copying, and according to this bill's language all other states would be required to accept it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="henschman, post: 1661463, member: 4235"] My beef with this bill is that it further legitimizes state laws that infringe on the RKBA. Now if Congress passed a law mandating nationwide constitutional carry, I would probably support it, because of Congress' authority under the 14th Amendment: 14th Amendment Section 1: "nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." 14th Amendment Section 2: "The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article." I believe that the right to keep and bear arms is implicated by all three of the items mentioned in Section 1 (life, liberty, and property), and I believe that any form of prior restraint on that right (including a licensure requirement) is a violation. I suppose the CC reciprocity bill lessens the infringement a little bit, since it would basically force all states to accept licenses from the state with the least requirements -- for example it would force all states to honor my Maine non-resident permit, which doesn't require fingerprinting, only costs $60, and whose training requirement can be met by taking a 20 minute online class... but it still legitimizes an infringement by requiring a person to have some form of permission slip from a state government in order to be granted reciprocity, and it expressly states that all state requirements for licensees are still in effect (officer notification, prohibited places, etc.) I suppose it could start a "race to the bottom," for states with the least restrictive CCL requirements... one state could conceivably start printing out documents titled "concealed carry permit" and issuing them to anyone who wants one, from any state, for the cost of copying, and according to this bill's language all other states would be required to accept it. [/QUOTE]
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