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USA –-(Ammoland.com)- Firearm scientist John Lott’s released a new report 07-20-2017 on concealed carry in the United States, with an updated estimate of more than 16.3 million legally licensed armed citizens.
It shows that a growing number of Americans are taking responsibility for their own safety.
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Chairman Alan Gottlieb commented, “John’s report comes at a critical moment when Congress should be discussing national concealed carry reciprocity legislation that was introduced in January.”
The current proposal for this has 200 co-sponsors.
The 61-page report shows increased concealed carry from 2007 through 2015 coincided with a decline in the national murder rate, from 5.6 to 4.9 per 100,000 population.
Comment:
National Constitutional Carry seems a better idea. Asking Congress to regulate CCW’s might come back to bite gun owners in a few years!
If national reciprocity passes, I do not believe that CA, NY, NJ, VA, HI and several others will comply.
States opposed to honoring outside permits will sue under states’ rights theories and get an immediate injunction from some liberal judge in their state.
Until the lawsuits reach the United States Supreme Court, there might be lots CCW holders finding themselves in violation of conflicting laws. There will be years and years of expensive litigation.
The alternative, Constitutional Carry, will have the same fight but will prove a bit easier to defend as the constitution actually says citizens have a right to keep and bear arms.
National reciprocity will certainly provide full employment for lawyers on both sides.
It’s just an opinion, don’t shoot the messenger.
Bob Irwin, Las Vegas
About Bob Irwin
Bob is retired after 30 years of ownership of The Gun Store & Indoor Range in Las Vegas. He continues his 2A issues show “Fired Up with Bob Irwin” on YouTube and on KSHP 1400 AM radio (Sunday mornings at 9 a.m.) As a firearm instructor of Concealed Firearm Applicants, Armed Security Officer and Law Enforcement Academies over his career, Bob appears frequently as an expert witness for firearm & use of force cases in Federal, State and local courts.
All you guys commenting here are spot on. But I live in New Jersey where just possessing a magazine with hollow point bullets will get you mandatory minimum of 5 years in states penn with no possability of parole. Big words from some patriots out there but when your entire life and your family are on the line it’s not so easy to excersize a right that has been stolen by the tyrants. There are 9.8 million people here but 2,000 have CCW permits ask yourself. Is it worth it to stand up and get kinetic? One might as well… Read more »
Steps, one at a time. The Dred Scott case had the Supreme Court listing the rights that black people were not entitled to have, just everybody else. The right to go armed, singly and in company, to cross state lines adn visist as long as they wanted, the right to a speak on politics… The Declaration is NOT A LAW that can be enforced but it does provide a guide to what the laws mean. Constitutional Carry would be nice, but National Reciprocity is not concealed carry regulation, it is enfocement of te 14th Amendment. “No State shall make or… Read more »
We need NEITHER, we need the ENFORCEMENT of the Declaration of Independence and the PROTECTION under the Constitution. We DO NOT need new laws that transfer more power and authority from us, We the People, to the governments, both state and federal. Substituting one form of government tyranny for another still leaves us suffering under the hands of tyranny. The ONLY authority given, by consent, to the governments, is to SECURE our Rights, and that includes our FUNDAMENTAL Right to KEEP and BEAR ARMS (plural). Not to dictate who shall have permission to exercise their Rights, {(except by the Fifth… Read more »
Register to vote in the primary in your state. Vote for a real constitutional conservative candidate. Then we can replace these turds that keep getting re-elected! Its better than having to fight a war to take back our nation.
We already have “constitutional carry” – or we should have everywhere in OUR constitutional republic. The operative clause of the Second Amendment to the Constitution, which is the supreme law of the entire land (see: Article VI, Clause 2), clearly dictates that: “… the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” This means that the states cannot subvert or supersede that right with inferior statutes or codes. Our problem is that modern politicians, since 1934, have overstepped their limited authority and have usurped OUR “secured” constitutional guarantee to freely ‘keep (own) and bear (carry)… Read more »
Why not both?