Will the "standards" allow states to issue to non-residents? The Dems would be smart to let this one go through with a "No" on that one.

If states opt in, could they have higher standards? Nevada (used to, at least) require the make/model of up to three guns you qualified with printed on the back of the license to carry.

Good start, but maybe the wrong stick to poke Congress with.

The NRA and other gun groups pushed the federal law (known as HR218 I think a the time) claiming that it would pave the way for the rest of us to get that same benefit.

Many of us said it was bull, and it was. I don't see this bill passing, ever. I don't see a form of this bill passing, ever. Unless, of course, some federal court says that people really do have the right to actually carry arms with them. And even then... How long adter Brown did school desegragation take?

We already have the 2A. If only the feds would abide by that. Any new federal gun legislation is an opportunity to shackle our freedoms even more.

The passage of a bill like this sure would have been nice this past holiday as my wife and I drove from Texas to Northern Wisconsin.

We passed through Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Minnesota, on our way to Wisconsin.

I specifically remember researching which states shared full reciprocity with our home state of Texas, as well as that vulnerable, naked feeling I had when I left Missouri and had to pack my Beretta 90-two in the back of the H3, buried in luggage, unloaded.

My Congressman (Sennsenbrenner) opposes national reciprocity for what I feel is a sound reason in principal, but not in practice: federalism. He doesn't like the Fed telling the states what to do. I know it's past worrying about that and it's time to start fighting back using the collectivists' own arsenal.

Federalism is a pretty damn poor excuse for denying a citizen the exercise of an essential civil and human right no matter where they are, don't you think?