and give us good stuff like national reciprocity among shall issue states.
I dread seeing this become a popular idea. Getting the Feds involved in CCW licensing is a BIG deal. You would be asking them to validate that States are not violating the 2nd and 14th Amendments by ignoring or infringing upon the RKBA. Short term, national reciprocity may seem very appealing, but think about what it would mean. It legitimizes State licensing of CCW, entirely unconstitutional from the start. We just got used to it, and NRA recommended it (1920s).
If there must be reciprocity, let the States work it out. I see good progress and think we should settle for that. States can cooperate without changing any legal precedents.
By the same token, I would not see federal legislation in regard to LEO carry as any progress. It makes us second class citizens and puts a federal foot in the door about who can carry and who can't. If a privilege to carry can be granted to LEOs it can be taken away too, as if it was ever any business of the Fed and in any way constitutional, even if only in legal effect by way of unchallenged precedent. That's exactly how we got to where we are today.
As far as I am concerned, any restrictive or selective action by the Fed in regard to guns is unconstitutional, and I would be against any of it, even if a short term convenience by way of less restriction by States. If the 2nd and 14th Amendments aren't worth spit, then I want the Feds to just stay out of it and will resist legislation of any kind. They get little enough accomplished in a Congressional term and should not be wasting time on un-American gun control that violates their oaths of office.
I would be more interested in having the Supreme Court establish that our truth is their truth. That would be the much grander picture. Reciprocity would become moot.
I would also be interested in a Constitutional amendment to remove the incorporation doctrine from the 14th Amendment. That would mean that the Bill of Rights, all of it, applies to all States, period, right now, today, quit messin' around after many lifetimes, and stop waiting for the Supreme Court to make the law of the land effective.