If you want to carry a loaded gun around the streets of Virginia, you need to take a short online gun-safety course. If you want to do so in New York City, you need to complete an arduous, expensive application and demonstrate a specific need for such a weapon.
But
in Donald Trump’s America, a Virginian could legally bring a loaded gun
to Times Square by taking route No. 1: The president-elect has argued
that concealed-carry permits from any state “should be valid in all 50
states” — and the gun lobby hopes to pass that principle into law as
soon as possible, The Guardian reports.
For
groups like the National Rifle Association and the Second Amendment
Foundation, allowing gun owners to fearlessly carry their firearms
across state lines is the “civil rights” struggle of our time (as, once
again, the enemies of liberty invoke “states rights” in a cynical bid to
maintain oppression).
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Source: New York Mag (via The Empire Report)
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