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currently proposed...." Heh.
OK, this is my final word on it.
Hawkmoon, you and I agree on so many things, but I point out that as far as I
know can remember, this is the first time the Federal Government has poked its nose into concealed carry in a major way beyond the words "bear arms" in the Second Amendment.*
If you fail to see what a precipitous step that is,
on its face, I cannot say any more.
My sense of it is that there are a few folks who would like to carry in New York or Maryland or Hawaii** or wherever, who are pushing this as "an expansion of civil rights" without realizing that it is fraught with danger to our civil rights in the long run to the rest of us.
If people cannot see that,
or refuse to see it, there is nothing more I can say.
Terry, 230RN
* And stretching it a bit, with respect to the concealability of long arms in the NFA. Also WRT local law, in Circuit Courts, ie. Peruta.
** Or while attending the NRA Director's meetings. :)
[Edited to change "know" to "can remember."]