Your Right To Self-Defense Shouldn’t End At State Borders

Your Right To Self-Defense Shouldn’t End At State Borders

National Rifle Association
National Rifle Association

FAIRFAX, Va. –-(Ammoland.com)- Last week, we reported on H.R. 822, the National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act Of 2011, and its importance to gun owners.

We noted that there is now only one state (Illinois) that has no clear legal way for individuals to carry concealed firearms for self-defense, [New Jersey’s CCW system is also fatally flawed] and and that 40 states now have permit systems that make it possible for any law-abiding person to obtain a permit, while most of the others have discretionary permit systems.

(Vermont has never required a permit.) H.R. 822 would make a major step forward for gun owners’ rights by significantly expanding where those permits are recognized.

This week, NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris W. Cox wrote an interesting and informative op-ed for the Daily Caller on why your right to self-defense shouldn’t end at state borders and why gun owners and their congressmen should support H.R. 822.

To read the op-ed, please click here.

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Inquisitor

“ . . . THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS, SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED”

“shall not be infringed” does not give (or reserve to) the States the power to infringe; instead it specifically DENIES the Federal Government AND the States that power. The RIGHT to “keep and bear arms” belongs to (and is reserved by) the people.