Republican Congressman to Introduce National Concealed Carry Bill for Next Congress

Taking advantage of the incoming Trump administration, Representative Richard Hudson (R-NC) has introduced a bill in Congress that will go a long way in making concealed carry the law of the land. Referred to as the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, the legislation will make it so that gun owners licensed to carry in one state will be able to do so in other states that similarly respect the right of concealed carry, allowing people to freely travel between such states without having to worry about the status of their firearms:

Now known as the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017, the bill, which The Daily Caller obtained exclusively, would allow a person with a concealed carry license from one state to carry a concealed handgun in any other state that permits its resident to concealed carry, as long as the person is not banned from possessing or transporting a firearm under federal law. The bill excludes carrying “a machine gun or destructive device,” and the person must follow “the restrictions of that state.”

“Our Second Amendment right doesn’t disappear when we cross state lines, and I plan to introduce legislation in the first days of the 115th Congress to guarantee that. The Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017 is a common sense bill to provide law-abiding citizens the right to conceal carry and travel freely between states without worrying about conflicting state codes or onerous civil suits,” Hudson wrote in a statement to The Daily Caller. “As a member of President-elect Trump’s Second Amendment Coalition, I look forward to working with the administration to advance policies that support and protect our right to keep and bear arms.”

Hudson and his staff shared the text of the bill Monday and spoke with offices around Capitol Hill about it.

Other members, like Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn, have introduced national concealed carry legislation in the past, when Democrats held the majority in the upper chamber, but Cornyn could not indicate to The Daily Caller last week if there was any plan re-introduce his legislation next year.”

Source: The Daily Caller