BTW, I am much like danez71 in that I travel between California and Arizona several times a year. A National Right to Carry Law forcing California to adopt some of the freedoms we have in Arizona would be of great benefit. I am sure the same benefit would be welcomed by other people traveling to and from states with radically different firearms laws.
I'd like to be able to carry when I visit my family in NYS. Yes, no threaded barrels and mags 10 rounds or less, but I'd still be able to carry. That would be HUGE.
Literally EVERY SINGLE TIME this issue comes up people make suppositions about what imaginary things the government (or Democrats) will do to us when this hypothetical thing passes. Newsflash, the anti gun crowd are coming after the RKBA regardless of whether or not there's nationwide carry. There will not be standardization of carry laws due to this. They will press for it, but they won't get it. There will be hemming and hawing. NY will throw a fit. CA will throw a fit.
Then, the rest of the country will tell them to shove it. The End.
I honestly believe some folks on our side feel the need to be oppressed. It's like if something doesn't go exactly like the armchair constitutional scholars want it to go, then they expect the rest of us have to sit on our thumbs and go, "oh well, I guess I'll just stay in my home state for the next couple years until Ron Paul gets elected."
I honestly believe there are folks like this. They talk about how much freedom they want but secretly, they feel the need to be victims. They see imaginary false flags everywhere and they think that the entire government is out to get them. They think they have some sort of magic insight and then they begin quoting the Founding Fathers and talking as if we will all somehow get magically transported back to 1800 if only (something) happens.
I'd like to wake up tomorrow and see constitutional carry as the law of the land. It's not going to happen. No matter how much I wish or click my ruby slippers together, it's going to be the same set of laws tomorrow. If folks expect any headway, we need to break NY or CA. The ONLY way that will happen is a law like this. Once the residents of the state see the disparity between their level of gun ownership and the rest of the country, the laws in NY and CA will fall. Then we can talk about going permitless nationwide.