{"id":27533,"date":"2011-11-17T07:34:08","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T11:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27533"},"modified":"2011-11-17T07:34:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T11:34:08","slug":"national-concealed-carry-passes-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27533","title":{"rendered":"National Concealed Carry passes House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a bi=partisan vote yesterday, the House passed the National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act with a vote of 272 to 154. 43 Democrats crossed the aisle to while 7 Republicans defected. The bill allows folks with a concealed carry permit to carry their weapon concealed in any other state that allows their own citizens to carry weapons concealed. Currently, only the District of Columbia and Illinois have no such laws.<\/p>\n<p>As it stands now, I can only carry my gun concealed in 32 states which have reciprocity with West Virginia. If this bill passes the Senate (and, honestly, I don&#8217;t think it will), I can carry my weapon in Maryland&#8230;twelve miles from my house.<\/p>\n<p>ROS sends us a link from New Jersey congressman, <a href=\"http:\/\/rothman.house.gov\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=1517&#038;Itemid=95\">Steve Rothman<\/a> who says that passage f the law threaens New Jersey;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If the National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act becomes law it will be an imminent and dangerous threat to New Jersey and our nation. Under New Jersey law, concealed carry permits are strictly limited to those who demonstrate a &#8220;justifiable need,&#8221; such as police officers. Under the proposed federal legislation, anyone permitted to carry a concealed or hidden firearm in his or her home state could do so in any other state, regardless of state regulations&#8230;&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what about drivers&#8217; licenses? Doe New Jersey forbid drivers from other states? For my CCW permit, I had to take 8 hours of classes with some range time to prove I kew how to shoot. I underwent a more stringent background check than the feds did for my security clearance &#8211; I know that because the Mineral County Sheriff Department turned up a 14-year-old dis-con warrant the feds hadn&#8217;t found.  <\/p>\n<p>But like I said before, I have no illusions that this bill will get past the Senate or the White House. I agree that the bill infringes on States&#8217; Rights, but if the States were more reasonable in their reciprocity agreements, the bll wouldn&#8217;t be necessary. <\/p>\n<p>How ridiculous is that I can carry a handgun concealed through WV, then unconceal it and lock it up for the twelve miles that I drive through Maryland and then conceal it again when I get to Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bi=partisan vote yesterday, the House passed the National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act with a vote &hellip; <a title=\"National Concealed Carry passes House\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27533\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">National Concealed Carry passes House<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}