A recent report by ABC News that gun control groups are vowing to “double down” against incoming President Donald Trump if he pursues national concealed carry reciprocity only proves anti-gunners are more interested in citizen disarmament than in public safety, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said in response.
“National concealed carry reciprocity simply would mean American citizens would no longer leave their right of self-defense at a state border,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “The gun prohibition lobby needs to come clean and admit they don’t care if law-abiding citizens can’t defend themselves while traveling. They’re not interested in public safety, only public disarmament.”
A national reciprocity bill passed the U.S. House in 2017, but was never brought up in the Senate, and Democrats have opposed the idea.
Now, however, with Capitol Hill under Republican control, and Trump on record as vowing to sign legislation if it hits his desk, anti-gunners—including Everytown for Gun Safety and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence—are promising a fight to keep people traveling from one state to another vulnerable to criminal attack.
“The gun ban crowd can couch their arguments any way they want,” Gottlieb observed, “but when you boil it down, what they really want is for good people to be vulnerable to violent crime. Anti-gunners argue that reciprocity will make it easier for criminals to cross state lines, but that doesn’t pass the smell test because criminals are already doing that.
“Any notion that legally-armed Americans are somehow a threat to public safety when they journey to another state is manufactured paranoia,” he said.
“And,” Gottlieb added, “when armed citizens go to other states, they must obey that state’s gun laws. The argument that states will see their own gun laws eroded by reciprocity is yet another myth invented by anti-gunners to dissuade people from supporting reciprocity. Each state’s laws would remain intact, and they know it.”
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Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org) is one of the nation’s premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.
>National concealed carry reciprocity simply would mean American citizens would no longer leave their right of self-defense at a state border,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb.< Just because a lot of states are terrified of seeing a weapon strapped on a person openly, and want every one to “hide” their rights, does not mean that you can not have “National Carry Rights” that does not limit the method of carry. Your right to self defense that some might leave at the state border does not know whether it is concealed or not. Only the politicians who do not want to… Read more »
OK, so if they want to use the legal system to disarm us, then let’s just disarm (actually defang) the legal system! Every man and woman who has an encounter with the legal system needs to do only one little thing, and that is to demand a hand written and SIGNED guarantee that they will be treated fairly in the legal system! What is so hard to do there? If the legal system really is inherently fair to one and all, then no one who works in it would hesitate for even one second to comply with that demand! But,… Read more »
People in all 50 states will need to be armed at all times until all the terrorist Biden and Kamala let in are rounded up and deported.
if these progressive gun-control/anti-freedom groups were actually concerned about firearm safety they would be pushing for firearms training in school, more range time and more severe sentences for violators of firearms related crimes instead of plea bargaining them down to misdemeanors. criminals have never followed the law and will never follow the law, that is what makes them criminals. we, law-abiding citizens, should not have to suffer for the actions of criminals, but progs are going to do what progs do.
The anti gunners go after responsible gun owners because we are the easy targets. Many responsible people obey their ludicrous laws because we are law abiding.
Going after criminals would be too hard for the anti gunners.
Morally, the anti gun rights people prefer murder victims rather than a victim standing over the corpse of an attempted rapist.
Dear God. Please see to it that we receive this one thing that we ask for to help end some of the anti-gunners power over us through each individual state being able to make their own laws that circumvent what our Supreme Court has determined and our 2nd Amendment says. You gave us the right to protect ourselves and it would not be right to let bad people who will always have and get guns rule over us that are law abiding and follow mans law as you require. Thank you for President Trump and all of his appointees. In… Read more »