The United States House of Representatives has passed H.R. 38, the national concealed carry reciprocity act.
The vote was 231 to 198 on Wednesday, 6 December. The fate of the bill now goes to the United States Senate.
The official results will show up at congress.gov in a few hours.
In the Senate, it is uncertain if enough Democrats will vote for the bill to overcome the 60 vote fillibuster barrier. Eight Democrat Senators are from states with either Shall Issue or Constitutional Carry law in their states.
Six of the Democrat Senators are from Shall Issue concealed carry states, and two are from Constitutional Carry states. They are:
Tammy Baldwin, Wisconsin, Shall Issue
Bill Nelson, Florida, Shall Issue
Jon Tester, Montana, Shall Issue
Heidi Heitkamp, North Dakota, Shall Issue
Sherrod Brown, Ohio, Shall Issue
Joe Donnelly, Indiana, Shall issue
Joe Manchin, West Virginia, Constitutional Carry
Claire McCaskill, Missouri, Constitutional Carry
The way to bet is that the above Senators will vote for the bill when they can be assured it will not pass, thus allowing themselves cover in their state when they are accused of being against the exercise of the Second Amendment.
It will likely fail in the Senate with 55 to 59 votes for it.
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The alternative to not passing the national reciprocity act will be to shoot any one denying your right to carry. You can not be breaking a law when you are exercising your constitutional rights. No one is required to approve of exercising the right to carry, they can object all they want to they just have no right to stop you. and the ignorant bastards are going to get people killed. the bastards and bitches they call legislators would not be so aggressive in passing laws if they had to be the first people to enforce the laws to see how well they can be applied. Good thing about the ninth amendment I don't have to like the color of your car and you don't have to like my nine inch barrel pistol but we both have the right to say so and no power to force change. Its called equal rights and your rights are no stronger than my rights. You get to say you don't like my gun and I get to say your car looks like shit. You could run me down with your car and I could shoot you with my gun and we would both be breaking the law.
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