A.G. Schneiderman Leads 10-State Coalition Fighting Race-To-The-Bottom Gun Laws

[SecularMotion]

A coalition of nine state attorneys general and one attorney general-elect led by New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman on Monday urged the leadership of the U.S. Senate to reject “The National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act” and “The Respecting States Rights and Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act,” laws would force states like New York, and the other co-signing states, to abandon their own gun laws by allowing out-of-state visitors to carry concealed firearms based on their home state's less safe laws, rather than those of the state they are entering.

Earlier this week, Attorney General Schneiderman won a major court victory in defense of New York State’s gun safety laws. In a unanimous decision in the case of Kachalsky, et al. v. Cacace, et al, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected a constitutional challenge to New York's handgun licensing statute, ruling that the law requiring individuals to demonstrate “proper cause” to obtain a license to carry concealed handguns in public does not violate the Constitution’s Second Amendment.

In a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the attorneys general today wrote that the bill would restrict their states’ ability to control who may and may not carry a concealed weapon within their borders, undermine the ability of police to verify the validity of gun permits, and allow gun traffickers to more easily bring illegal guns into their respective states.

“These two bills would force states to recognize concealed carry permits issued by any other states, even those with poor oversight and weaker permitting standards,” the attorneys general wrote. “These bills would create a lowest common denominator approach to public safety that would endanger police and make it more difficult to prosecute gun traffickers.”

http://www.wbng.com/news/local/AG-Schneiderman-Leads-10-State-Coalition-Fighting-Race-To-The-Bottom-Gun-Laws-181853951.html

[MotherPetrie]

1. K&R

[gejohnston]

2. I would like to hear a logical explaination

In a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the attorneys general today wrote that the bill would restrict their states’ ability to control who may and may not carry a concealed weapon within their borders, undermine the ability of police to verify the validity of gun permits, and allow gun traffickers to more easily bring illegal guns into their respective states.

how it would undermine the police ability to verify more than an out of state drivers license. Also, what does gun trafficking have to do with concealed carry permits? Do they seriously think someone violating federal law is going to get a CCW from another state?

[PavePusher]

3. Schneiderman is a lying asshole.

That's the explaination.

[Glassunion]

4. Oh the poutrage!

[Eleanors38]

5. NY needs to junk its Jim Crow "may issue" laws...

It should enact "shall issue" in either open or concealed manner or both.

Classic example of elites talking to elites about an outlook that has no solid popular base.