New Second Amendment Legislative News Out of North Carolina

[AlHunt]

Interestingly all the responses to this thread, except one, come from areas where it is relatively easy to get a CCW.

In the wonderful state of Marylandastan, which is laughably called a "may issue" state, our CCW situation, is if you carry taxable cash, we may think about giving you a CCW......thought about it...no CCW for you. We look to legislation like this to possible give use some rights back.

But that's a fight YOU in Maryland have to fight. In my state we now have constitutional carry AND still no background check on private sales (an issue we just voted on and beat back Michael Bloomberg's universal background check plot). We do not have a "gun problem" or a "gun violence" problem except in the fevered imaginations of the gungrabbers.

For Marylanders, it might seem OK to let the feds *impose* regulations on me in order the decrease regulations on Maryland residents. But from my perspective, it's a pretty raw deal and not something I'm going to let happen without a fight.

The 2nd amendment is crystal clear in what it says and what it means. Go fight for it!

 

[AlHunt]

If I can drive my vehicle through out the USA (a privilege) with my state issued Drivers license, how can I not be able to CCW through out the USA with my CCW permit?

Exactly. Driving is supposedly a privilege. Gun rights are just that - a right enumerated in the Constitution. The feds need to stay out of it. Any new federal statute is a Christmas tree for gun grabbers and they'll be hanging ornaments all over it. It saves them the trouble of going state by state if they can get a 50 state bite all in one fell swoop.

My state couldn't be more gun friendly. I'm not going to stand idly by while other states *improve* their situations at the expense of mine.

 

[rwt1405]

Exactly. Driving is supposedly a privilege. Gun rights are just that - a right enumerated in the Constitution. The feds need to stay out of it. Any new federal statute is a Christmas tree for gun grabbers and they'll be hanging ornaments all over it. It saves them the trouble of going state by state if they can get a 50 state bite all in one fell swoop.

My state couldn't be more gun friendly. I'm not going to stand idly by while other states *improve* their situations at the expense of mine.

So you don't see a need for National Carry?

I, for one do not just live and die in one state (nor do most people), and as such many people see the need for said National Carry.

With your line of thinking, you should also not be able to drive your vehicle outside your state, or else you've made a privilege, superior to a right.

 

[AlHunt]

So you don't see a need for National Carry?

I, for one do not just live and die in one state (nor do most people), and as such many people see the need for said National Carry.

With your line of thinking, you should also not be able to drive your vehicle outside your state, or else you've made a privilege, superior to a right.

You have national carry. It's right there in the 2nd amendment - "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed". "The right" ... the second amendment doesn't grant the right, it acknowledges the pre-existing natural right to self defense. The states have infringed by creating such laws. Yes, we could bounce SCOTUS cases back and forth. It is not the fist time SCOTUS has been wrong.

Someone said above that the feds had imposed standards on drivers licenses and required the states to recognize each others DL. What a gift to the anti-gun crowd for the feds to start imposing standards for a person to exercise their 2nd amendment rights.

Stop the states from making infringing laws.