The good news is there are now concealed carry reciprocity bills in both the House and Senate. If the bills become law your concealed carry permit will be honored in every state in the nation. Just like your driver’s license. Or your marriage license. You know…common sense. Trump has already pledged to sign the bill into law if it passes and reaches his desk.
In the House, HR 38 was written and introduced by North Carolina Rp. Richard Hudson. As you might expect, the NSSF is cheering the move.
The NSSF, The Firearm Industry’s Trade Association, wholeheartedly welcomes U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson’s (R-N.C.) introduction of the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2025, H.R. 38. The legislation was introduced with 113 co-sponsors, demonstrating the wide-ranging support for protecting law-abiding concealed carry permit holders from navigating a patchwork of varying gun control laws when crossing a state line.
The bill aims to eliminate the confusion of varying state-by-state laws and provide protection for Second Amendment rights for permit holders. The legislation would allow handgun owners who are legally permitted and authorized by their home state to carry a concealed firearm to lawfully carry in other states provided they comply with the law in other states – much in the same way a driver’s license is recognized.
“This legislation eliminates the confusing patchwork of laws surrounding concealed carry permits that vary from state-to-state, particularly with regard to states where laws make unwitting criminals out of legal permit holders for a simple mistake of a wrong traffic turn,” said Lawrence Keane, NSSF Senior Vice President and General Counsel. “It safeguards a state’s right to determine their own laws while protecting the Second Amendment rights of all Americans. We thank Rep. Hudson for his leadership on behalf of the firearm industry that serves law-abiding gun owners who wish to exercise their Second Amendment right to bear arms across state lines.”
Yesterday, a companion bill was introduced in the Senate. S 65, the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, was authored by Texas’s problematic senior Senator John Cornyn. He’s the lower-than-a-snake’s-belly bottom-feeder who worked with Senator Chris Murphy, the hoplophobic flying monkey from Connecticut, to make the Orwellian Bipartisan Safer Communities Act a reality. That was the first gun control act to become law in decades and wouldn’t have happened without Cornyn’s backing.
As a result of either his duplicity or stupidity, Cornyn was rolled by Murphy, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and the rest of the gun control gang in getting behind the BSCA. Once signed into law, the Biden administration wasted no time in interpreting the language of the BSCA in the broadest possible terms to make life more difficult for America’s gun owners.
That didn’t go over well with the folks back here in Texas.
FLASHBACK: Senator John Cornyn is booed by his own party at the Texas GOP convention in 2022 after he endorsed left-wing gun control measures
— Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) November 11, 2024
Now, after (thankfully) losing his bid to succeed Mitch McConnell as Senate Majority Leader, Cornyn has announced that he’ll run for reelection next year. That means he’s hoping that 1) Texas voters will forget his complicity with Biden and Senate Dems in passing a gun control bill, and 2) authoring the Senate’s concealed carry reciprocity bill will put a bright, shiny finish on top of the crusty, fetid fecal matter than is his record on gun rights.
We’re betting that Texas voters won’t forget is useful idiocy and he’ll face a significant primary challenger next year.
But that’s a story that’s yet to be written. Whatever the source of the current Senate bill, it’s objectively good news that concealed carry reciprocity has a chance in the 119th Congress. Even if a duplicitous snake is trying to use the issue to save his political skin.
“ duplicitous snake from Texas “, turncoat asswipe son of a bitch… six of one half dozen of another.
mustela kathiah.
Well, considering Cornyn’s involvement in the BSCA, I can only imagine the BS that he added that will be used to fork us over, then listen to his “I can’t believe that they would do that” crap.
We need to primary his ass
“The good news is there are now concealed carry reciprocity bills in both the House and Senate.”
The bad news is that the U.S. Senate will never pass such bills until 60 U.S. Senators decide to support the plain text of our nation’s Constitution–which will never happen.
Remember that the U.S. Senate actually requires TWO VOTES before they can pass a bill. The first vote requires 60 U.S. Senators to agree that they should bring a bill to the U.S. Senate floor for voting for passage. If 60 U.S. Senators agree, then they can vote whether or not to actually pass the bill.
While I loathe Cornyn, I think Paxton’s chances of beating him in a GOP primary are slim.
But for there being a free-for-all GOP primary for Tx. AG last time around (four serious candidates) that resulted in a splintered opposition, Paxton probably would not have been re-nominated. Instead, because the anti-Paxton forces (a majority of GOP voters statewide, as it turned out) split the opposition, it set up a runoff against the only opposition candidate who Paxton could beat: the youngest Bush. Put differently, had it been a straight up primary fight between Paxton and former Texas Supreme Court justice Eva Guzman, she would have mopped the floor with him.
But at least the outstanding threat of a primary will probably keep Cornyn from pulling crap like the BSCA for the next two years. My guess is that he’ll cozy up to Trump to try and head this off.