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Republican Representative Thomas Massie from Kentucky urged his colleagues in Congress to support his National Constitutional Carry Act, a measure aimed at eliminating government restrictions on citizens’ constitutional right to carry firearms for self-defense.
Currently, 29 states have adopted constitutional carry laws, enabling their residents to carry concealed weapons without obtaining government permits or licenses. These states include Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
Today, I introduced HR 9534, the National Constitutional Carry Act.
No one should have to beg the government to exercise a constitutionally protected right anywhere in the country. pic.twitter.com/xSI0Ed21ul
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) September 11, 2024
Massie’s proposed legislation would extend constitutional carry across the entire nation, eliminating the burdensome requirements that law-abiding citizens in the remaining 31 states must navigate to exercise their self-defense rights.
The National Constitutional Carry Act specifically states its purpose is to “enforce the rights protected by the Second and Fourteenth Amendments against the States.”
Yesterday, I dispelled two myths commonly invoked by gun-grabbers.
1. ATF Dir. Dettelbach admitted to me there is no such thing as a gun show loophole.
2. The ATF and media artificially inflate childhood firearm death statistics by including 18- and 19-year-old gang members. pic.twitter.com/0h5favthkf
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) May 24, 2024
Furthermore, the act stipulates, “No State or political subdivision of a State may impose a criminal or civil penalty on, or otherwise indirectly dissuade 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.”
