Then what are you complaining about? If the laws of anti-gun states will NOT be spread to other states, what possible objection can there be to a national recognition of concealed carry permits?
Vern, I continue to be amazed at how obtuse you’re being. You don’t appear to have any idea how laws are applied and how they’re deemed Constitutional, and your posts have been an endless stream of strawman and non sequitur statements.
I (and others) keep repeating ourselves, but it’s clear from your posts that you have no understanding of why we should all be worried about a national reciprocity law. Let me try one more time to explain before I just give up.
A national reciprocity law will mean that the federal government is now directly involved in state-level concealed carry issues. That law would also be very controversial and there would be strong pushback from certain states and localities.
This means two things are likely: First, in order for a national reciprocity bill to pass, it would need votes from Democrats in the senate and from Republicans who are in areas that lean anti-gun. This means compromise. And what kind of compromise would we see? Nobody knows for sure, but I think it’s likely that we’d see further restrictions on carry that applied on the federal level.
So imagine this scenario: In order to get enough votes to pass the bill, they’d add extra national restrictions on where we can carry. Or maybe we’d need to qualify with each gun we intend to carry. Things like that are likely to be included in any national reciprocity bill that passes. That’s how legislation works: Compromise is often needed in order to pass a bill.
The second thing that would probably happen is a backlash of federal legislation after the passing of a national reciprocity bill. All of a sudden, anti-gun states and localities that restrict carry would have people carrying guns there. Many people and many politicians would look to pass reactive federal legislation as a reaction against it. So I think it’s likely we’d see follow-up federal legislation that restricts carry (or gun rights in general).
Right now, politicians from states like NY, CA, and NJ have little pressure to push for national carry restrictions since so few people can currently carry in their state. But that would certainly change if national reciprocity was enacted.