Congress promotes the president’s commitment to strengthening gun rights to laws that protect citizens. The House Judiciary Committee voted to advance a key bill known in the Constitution as the Concealed Carrie Retrocity Act. The committee voted to send North Carolina Republican Rep. Richard Hudson to the entire House of Representatives with a vote of 18 to 9.
The law addresses the real issues of laws protecting gun owners, often victims of conflicting state laws that govern the way citizens carry firearms.
When I disarmed a man threatening people in Baltimore, Maryland, in a pub, I didn’t think he would be arrested for my efforts to contain the situation and prevent people from being harmed. But that is What exactly happened to me.
it was A gathering of family and friends on July 4th when Another man at the bar was upset about the issue, including his girlfriend. Angry that his date was dancing with another man, his boyfriend swings his firearm around and uses it to hit the other man in his head, screaming threats like “I’ll kill everyone.”
As a firearms instructor and a former member of the Marine Security Forces Regiment, I defeated the man and disarmed him without harming the bystanders. I was also armed at the time, but I never drew a gun. But when Baltimore police officers arrived And I learned that It was armed, I was arrested. That’s why – my firearm permit was issued in Virginia and not recognized in Maryland. Despite my success in neutralizing the attacker without incident, I was arrested and accused of having a firearm within 100 feet of a public building and not having a concealed carry permit posted in Maryland.
Baltimore Police I was grateful for Action that It neutralizesd The attacker was charged with aggravated assault. Several officers said Life was saved, But that didn’t stop the high-ranking police officers and prosecutors from treating me like a criminal.
The price included one year prison Time, heavy fines, confiscation of hidden carry permits. I fought the charges violently – I paid my own legal bills – and eventually received a year of unsupervised probation. Such punishment was not only unnecessary, but also insulting. My defense I told the court, “A good man with a gun” was arrested simply for “having a gun.”
As a trained Marine and a member of the respected security forces who helped protect the president, I was responsible for carrying firearms in many different foreign countries. But American legal gun owners must risk experiencing long, extremely stressful legal hassle and contested gun laws that are different between state boundaries and law-abiding people.
All this can change As hidden Carrie’s reciprocity moves forward through Congress. The law is permitted Interrelationships of hidden carry around the nation In all 50 states,ing Citizens who legally carry firearms for personal protection in their homeland can do so in all 50 states without fear of punishment. If such a law is passed, there is no more reason for legal citizens to face conflicting, confusing laws.
mState such as Maryland, New York, New Jersey Condition onThe West Coast has an outdated, restrictive gun law, and People fall victim to unnecessary state or local restrictions. that’s right Estimated Today, there are over 21 million hidden handgun permit holders in the United States. Those numbers do not include people living in states that do not require hidden carry permits.
Many people in this country travel far and far distances for work to help families, truck drivers, seniors and other law-abiding people. The right to carry a firearm – the state – without fear of unnecessary punishment. meeting Passing this national problem can be fixed The mutual relationship of hidden national carriers.
Lloyd Muldrow is the Carnegie Medal recipient of America’s highest civilian for heroes, Marine veteran and combat and firearms instructor.
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