Senate GOP Pushes for Concealed Carry Reciprocity

Republican Senators. Today, John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), will introduce new legislation Reforms to the Second Amendment That would allow concealed carry permits that have been issued by the state to be recognized across other states that allow conceal carry.

More than 40 senator colleagues have backed the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act (the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act), including Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R.Ky., as well as Senate Minority Whip John Thune.

“I’m proud to support law-abiding gun owners across America with this commonsense legislation that would let them concealed carry in all states that allow it,” Cornyn, who is a member of the Senate judiciaryFinance, intelligence and finance committees.

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Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas
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“This legislation strengthens two of our most fundamental constitutional protections – the Second Amendment’s right of citizens to keep and bear arms and the Tenth Amendment’s right of states to make laws best-suited for their residents,” He said.

While all 50 states permit concealed carry, only 25 require permits. While some states are already engaged in reciprocity with select other states, there’s no federal allowance for reciprocity across all states that require permits.

“The constitutional right of self-defense should not disappear simply because an individual crosses state lines,” Hagerty. “I’m pleased to join my Senate colleagues in this commonsense legislation to ensure that law-abiding Tennesseans who are permitted to carry a concealed firearm are able to exercise that right in other states, consistent with those states’ laws, without having to obtain a separate permit.”

Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn.
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The measure treats state-issued concealed carry permits like drivers’ licenses, as people can use their home-state license to drive in another state but must abide by that other state’s speed limit or road laws.

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas

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The senators state that their legislation protects state sovereignty By not establishing a national standard in concealed carry.