Constitutional Carry rolls on - Utah joins those States wholly honoring the US Constitution - Granite Grok

Constitutional Carry rolls on – Utah joins those States wholly honoring the US Constitution

Concealed carry gun woman

Amendment 2, US Constitution:

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

Shall not be infringed means exactly that – no infringement. Any time a gun control weenie yammers about “common sense”, ask them to graph that simple sentence and ask them what “regulated” meant back in the time the US Constitution was written instead of what it means in the Regulatory State Age today – the two have nothing to do with each other. However, the anti-gunners want you to believe THEIR definition instead of the Framers. Glad to see that Utah just gave them the upraised finger:

Utah Passes Constitutional Carry

…Residents of Utah will soon be able to carry concealed guns without a permit.

Governor Spencer Cox (R.) will sign legislation into law this week to eliminate the permit requirement, his spokeswoman told the Washington Free Beacon on Tuesday. The act will allow any law-abiding person over the age of 21 to carry a gun under his or her clothes while in the state. Convicted felons, those adjudicated mentally ill, and other people prohibited from owning a gun are excluded from the policy.

…The repeal of permit requirements for concealed gun carry has accelerated over the past decade in a show of the increasing influence of gun owners and Second Amendment groups, especially at the state level. Utah is the 17th state to adopt a permitless carry system. While Vermont has used a permitless system since its founding, most states effectively banned any form of concealed gun carry until the mid-1990s. As recently as 1986, 16 states banned concealed gun carry while another 25 had laws allowing state officials to reject permit applications for any.

Glad to have you join we here in NH. The list for Constitutional Carry States, that simply follow ALL of what the Second Amendment says in its last clause:

  • Vermont
  • Alaska
  • Arizona
  • Wyoming
  • Kansas
  • West Virginia
  • Idaho
  • Mississippi
  • Missouri
  • New Hampshire
  • North Dakota
  • South Dakota
  • Oklahoma
  • Kentucky
  • Arkansas

States Considering Constitutional Carry:

  • Michigan
  • Tennessee
  • Alabama
  • Ohio
  • Texas
  • Louisiana
  • Indiana
  • Montana
  • South Carolina

What gives me, as a Constitutional absolutist, great pleasure is seeing the Constitution being restored to fullness in this manner. Every time an anti-gunner hears that yet another State has done so, their soul goes deeper into Dante’s Inferno. They just seethe with anger that yet another group of people no longer have to grovel to Government in order to freely exercise their Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

And for those folks that keep saying that it only applied back then and that today’s “weapons of war” are too much for civilians, invoke the “deer in headlights” fear in them by asking them about Letters of Marque. That should both blow them off and blow them up.

(H/T: Bearing Arms)

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