A coalition of 24 Republican attorneys general have signed on to a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries calling for a floor vote and passage of H.R. 38, known as the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act. The AGs, all of whom serve in states that have adopted their own constitutional carry or permitless carry laws, say they "know firsthand that recognizing a broad right of concealed carry among law-abiding Americans promotes public safety and respects the fundamental liberties of our constituents", and want to see that right extended across state lines.
The letter acknowledges one of the talking points against H.R. 38 is that the bill would intrude upon “states’ rights,”, which they call "a concept that would have been completely unfamiliar, if not repugnant, to some of these same pundits in any other context." So many Americans are ignorant of our history that a lot of them will be unaware that the phrase was deployed for decades in defense of Jim Crow laws. The fact is that citizens have rights, while governments have powers... and no state has the power to violate the fundamental, enumerated rights of we the people.
