Last week, while at SHOT Show, there were a lot of folks who stopped me and said, Hey Jared, what’s going on with constitutional carry? Where do the bills stand? What do we know? Tell us more. Well, I’m gonna do that right now and tell you where the latest bill stands. They’re all good questions. Before we get started, welcome to Guns and Gadgets, the premier source for Second Amendment News. If you love the Second Amendment, you’re passionate about staying informed. Then hit that subscribe button right now. It’s free and turn on the bell notifications while you’re there.

Let you know when I put out new content or go live. On Thursday, Congressman Thomas Massey announced the introduction of H.R. 645, the National Constitutional Carry Act. Massey’s constitutional carry legislation will ensure Americans’ Second Amendment right to carry firearms in public spaces and make sure that it’s protected throughout the country. Representative Thomas Massey said this, quote, I’m fortunate to live in a state, Kentucky, where people are free to exercise their right to keep and bear arms without begging the government or paying a fee. Unfortunately, not every American enjoys the same right to carry firearms in public because some states and localities infringe upon this right through a variety of criminal, civil and regulatory penalties by prohibiting state or local restrictions on the right to bear arms.

H.R. 645 upholds the original purpose of the Second Amendment to ensure the security of a free state while safeguarding individual liberties against government infringement. Guys, gals, there are millions of us in this country that decide to carry a firearm for our own self defense. If you are one of those folks who carry a firearm for self defense, I strongly suggest you check out Attorneys on Retainer. After dealing with several other companies and learning the hard way about the limitations on insurance coverage, I now trust AOR to have my back.

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Get attorneys on retainer. Back to the bill. Massey’s legislation is composed of two major provisions. The first provision prohibits any state or political subdivision, that’s a town or county or city, from imposing criminal or civil penalties on eligible individuals carrying firearms in public. The second provision invalidates any existing state or local laws, statutes, regulations or local restrictions that criminalize, penalize or otherwise dissuade the carrying of firearms in public. In addition to covering all 50 states, HR 645 includes District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and other territories of the United States within its scope to ensure that all residents of the United States and their jurisdictions enjoy consistent protection of their Second Amendment rights.

But this is how this channel operates. I’m going to show you what the bill actually says so you can see it and understand it. Page one simply says, this act may be cited as the National Constitutional Carry Act. And here’s what it says under findings. Congress finds the following one, recognizing the pre existing right to self defense, the Second Amendment to the Constitution in the United States guarantees individually to American citizens the right to keep and bear arms, including the right to bear arms in public to the Second Amendment decrees that these rights to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed and was enumerated in order to preserve the security of a free state.

Three in District of Columbia versus Heller, the Supreme Court confirmed that there seems to us no doubt on the basis of both text and history that the Second Amendment conferred an individual right to keep and bear arms. Four, in McDonald versus the city of Chicago, the Supreme Court ruled that the 14th Amendment makes the Second Amendment fully applicable to the states. Five, recently, the Supreme Court acknowledged the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association versus Bruin that the Second and 14th Amendments protect an individual right to carry arms outside the home for self defense.

Further, the court reiterated that the Second Amendment’s otherwise unqualified command only accommodates laws that are consistent with this nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation. Six, certain states and localities have enacted gun control laws that are not consistent with the text of the Second Amendment, nor this nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation. The criminalization of peaceable public firearms carry is repugnant to the original meaning of the Second Amendment. Last one, seven, any state or local restriction on the right of American citizens to keep and bear arms impairs the ability of the Second Amendment to achieve its textually specified purpose, the security of a free state.

This is what the bill looks to do if it was to become a law. It would amend Section 927 of Title 18 USC to read as follows. No state or political subdivision of any state may impose a criminal or civil penalty on or otherwise indirectly limit the carrying of firearms, including by imposing a financial or other barrier to entry in public by residents or nonresidents of that state who are citizens of the United States and otherwise eligible to possess firearms under state and federal law in public by residents and nonresidents.

Constitutional carry be any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom or usage of a state or political subdivision of a state that criminalizes, penalizes or otherwise indirectly dissuades the carrying of firearms, including by imposing a financial or other barrier to entry in public by any resident or nonresident who is a United States citizen and otherwise eligible to possess firearms under state and federal law shall have no force or effect. So your states that have unconstitutional gun laws, they would be deemed unconstitutional by Congress. See the term state as used in the section includes the District of Columbia, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and possessions of the United States, not including the Canal Zone.

The term public as used in this section includes any place held open to the public regardless of ownership. But in the case of a privately owned location held open to the public does not include a place where the owner communicates clearly and conspicuously a prohibition of firearms on the premises. So your private property rights are still there. You’ll notice that there’s nothing in there that carries any criminal act if you happen to have a firearm and walk into a place that doesn’t want you to have it.

It’s kind of like they made it known. And if you continue to use the premises, if it’s a business and they ask you to leave, if they find it, then they ask you to leave. But there’s no criminality attached to this, which is good. Two, it does not include a place where screening for firearms is conducted under state law. All right. So the National Constitutional Carry Act has been submitted. It is official now and it has been has been been assigned rather to the Judiciary Committee in the House of Representatives.

What do you think about the National Constitutional Carry Act? Do you believe this bill stands a chance to pull seven more like potentially you’re going to need 10 senators from the Democrat side? Why do you say 10? Jared, we only really need seven. We got some rhinos that are concerning. They’re very concerning. Let me know in the comments down below what you think about that. And before you go, don’t forget to like the video and subscribe to Guns and Gadgets for more updates on the Second Amendment.

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