Notes from the Resistance
— Gun Owners of America (@GunOwners) March 26, 2025
BREAKING
H.R. 38, the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, was just voted out of the @JudiciaryGOP 18-9 and will be reported favorably to the House! pic.twitter.com/Tc0rRQtaMG
Prognosis 5% chance of being enacted (details)
From Marc Erickson, Director, GRNC, via email:
On March 20th, the NC Senate passed SB50, the Concealed Carry Bill 26 to 18. Next week our House will likely be moving H5 (the complementary bill) to the House Floor for a vote.
Ammoland embeds my video from GRNC:
We have an alert active requesting that citizens contact our 100 County Sheriffs in support of the bills. This will be necessary in order to help pass the bill in the House of Representatives and then override an anticipated veto from Leftist Democrat governor Josh Stein.
Seems like the thing just wrote itself…:-)
Pass Constitutional Carry Now in North Carolina [More]
You’re not gonna let some Yankee from Ohio care more about it than you do, are you?
Funny thing about Google, and I don’t mean “ha ha” funny: Search for “Grassroots North Carolina” and good luck finding the gun group’s website. I noticed a similar phenomenon the other day when I put in the title of a recent AmmoLand article.
By suppressing our work, they suppress our political action.
Their sucking up to Trump has to do more than just stoke the guy’s ego. A “Second Amendment President” would be calling them out on algorithms that discriminate against one of his core constituencies.
But back to the resason for this post: Sign GRNC’s petition.
Show NC legislators you are serious about NC Concealed Carry ! [More]
NC gun owners: Are you?
UPDATE
Go to link to see “STOP ALAMANCE SCHEME TO END SHOOTING RANGES!”
I hate to be Eeyore, but with all the hyperbole and excitement I’m seeing about national Constitutional Carry reciprocity, it doesn’t seem out of line to ask the gushers and the click baiters to provide a realistic estimate of whose votes we can count on, and which “Republicans” will join with the slim Democrat minority to keep the bill from getting to the president’s desk.
No one would like my caution to be proven unfounded more than me. The last thing I want to see with such great expectations is the wind taken out of everyone’s sails.
Anyone care to help me jump on the bandwagon?
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act’’. [More]
Well, it beats Cornyn’s.
When I posted on this the other day, the linked bill text talked permits. What am I reading wrong?
Now that he’s apparently changed that, I’m not sure why he didn’t just support Massie’s. Is the GOP squeezing him out in revenge for opposing Mike Johnson on principle?
And still no prognosis.
Who wants to bet against me and how much?
The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to Hawaii’s gun-licensing law, though three justices expressed a willingness to hear arguments over the issue later [More]
With “shall not be infringed” being the metric, that this is even an allowed to be an issue is one of the greatest frauds of our time.
“I understand constitutional carry and why it would be okay in some parts of Louisiana, but you can’t say that is true for New Orleans,” Kirkpatrick said. I’m a person who appreciates constitutional carry but not in every location. New Orleans is unique. We have no business with guns at a parade or in our entertainment areas at all.” [More]
Bringing the same results to New Orleans she did to Oakland, I see…
Only in government is suing your previous employer not a red flag for hiring managers…
[Via Jess]
Justified Homicides in Indianapolis Double after Constitutional Carry [More]
And every one of the thwarted perps ends up mourned and memorialized alongside past victims.
Rep. Thomas Massie made the news recently when he introduced HR9534, the National Constitutional Carry Act, correctly noting “No one should have to beg the government to exercise a constitutionally protected right anywhere in the country.” [More]
I asked him direct questions and true to form (and unlike most), he answered directly. President Trump really needs to look at why Massie takes the positions he does and realize that’s what it will take to Make America Great Again.
Mayor of Alabama’s capital becomes latest to try to limit GOP ‘permitless carry’ law… According to the ordinance, Montgomery police can confiscate a concealed gun if the gun holder is not also carrying a photo ID. [More]
Reed also is a critic of voter ID laws…
I wonder who his new gun ID law is going to disproportionately disenfranchise…
[Via Jess]
States with concealed carry laws have not seen an increase in crime rates; many have seen declines in violent crime and homicide rates. [More]
And ditto fot “pemitless carry.”
It’s almost like every meltdown the prohibitonists have is based on a lie…
Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed, his chief of staff Chip Hill, and Montgomery District Attorney Daryl Bailey blamed the crime wave on the legislature passing permitless carry. [More]
Because as we all know, that made it legal for prohibited persons to carry guns and victimize others.
Show me a gun-grabber who doesn’t rely on stupid people to get elected.
[Via Michael G]
Republican Rep. Reed Ingram “feels” the state’s 2022 permitless carry law, where “anyone over 19 years old can carry a concealed handgun without a permit, background check or training,” is a “bad bill.” Now “he intends to file a bill that would instead require someone to be 21 to conceal carry. They would also have to pass a hunter safety course or get a permit from the sheriff’s office.” [More]
With Republicans like this jackass, who needs Democrats?
53% of the 21 states with restrictive concealed carry laws have violent crime rates higher than the national average. 55% of states with a violent crime rate below the national average have permitless carry. [More]
And practically 100% of the violent crimes are committed by people who don’t qualify to carry under either scenario and have no business having access to the rest of us.
“I just said a prayer last night that I hope my greatest fears don’t come true, and that’s that South Carolina becomes the Wild, Wild West,” Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott told The Post and Courier. [More]
I wonder why the Democrat feels that way.
[Via bondmen]
It’s an improvement, but before gun owners start cheering over “illegal possession” being a “win” for “law and order,” consider Illinois…
Check out some of the idiots in comments.
[Via Antigone]
The March 5 compromise comes after the House and Senate could not come to agreement on several provisions of the bill… [More]
To paraphrase Bill Clinton, it depends upon what the meaning of the word “infringed” is.
[Via Jesse J]
Tangentially Related UPDATE
I am still holding out hope that a permitless carry bill of some stripe will pass the North Carolina General Assembly this spring. It will need a spending or fiscal component attached to it. We almost had it passed through the House of Representatives at the crossover deadline until opposition from the NRA caused Speaker Tim Moore (R-Cleveland) to pull the bill. [More]
Tell us more. Name names.
Louisiana becomes nation’s 28th state with constitutional carry law on the books: ‘landmark victory’ [More]
Let’s not go too over the top. It’s better than it was, bnut there are still plenty of presumptuous infringements.
Both the House and the Senate have passed a bill that would enact what is known as “permitless carry” or “constitutional carry” across South Carolina. But their versions of the legislation are different, so they need to settle on a compromise before they can send this bill to the governor. [More]
So someone else mandating a compromise on your entitlement isn’t an infringement?
Pro-gun permitless carry law closer to passage in Louisiana [More]
So naturally, Democrats and the porcine prevaricators at the FOP are resurrecting the old “blood in the streets” hysteria that reality never bears out.
[Via bondmen]
Provides relative to the right of law-abiding citizens to carry concealed weapons lawfully without a permit. [More]
Now that vetoing Democrat John Bel Edwards is out, it’s time for NRA A+ rated and endorsed Jeff Landry to strut his stuff.
[Via Jess]
The South Carolina State Senate is in the second week of debate regarding a bill that would allow handguns to be carried openly in the state. House bill 3594, known as “Constitutional Carry,” is supported by most Republicans in the General Assembly… [More]
What’s to debate?
And why “most” instead of “all”?
Who are the @$$holes?
[Via Jess]
After Media-Brutalized Gun Freedom Law, Violent Crime Drops In Florida [More]
Didn’t help this poor guy, though.
I see Forbes was one of the guilty DSM parties.
I remember when Steve was trying to con gun owners into thinking he was a pal. NRA, of course, fell for it, but they’ve covered their tracks by deleting their video “Steve Forbes – a New President to Put Forward a PositiveProgram.”
[Via Edmund M]
One witness told the station the disabled man was getting “chunks” ripped from him while neighbors also threw items at the dogs in an attempt to stop them. [More]
They’re in FLORIDA, fer cryin’ out loud…
What the hell is wrong with people?
Did Loosening Gun Control Cause A Nationwide Drop In Homicides? [More]
I’m not sure this factors into predator decisions on whether a person looks like a victim or not. Let’s be careful with claims. Just because the other side does it doesn’t mean they won’t point and scream when “our side” does…
For now I’ll take “they didn’t go up.”
File this under “Further Study Justified.”
[Via bondmen]
