HR 38 ( https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/38/text )
Federal proposed bill HR 38 says that if you have a concealed carry permit in your state, it’s valid in other states (with below restrictions.)
To qualify to carry concealed in a non-resident state, a person:
must not be prohibited by Federal law from possessing, transporting, shipping, or receiving a firearm,
must carry a valid identification document containing a photograph of the person,
must have a valid license or permit issued pursuant to the law of a State, that allows the person to carry a concealed firearm or is entitled to carry a concealed firearm in the State in which the person resides.
The firearm must have been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce. (The feds, not the states, regulate interstate commerce.)
This does not include a machine gun or destructive device.
The non-resident state in which a person can carry must:
have a statute under which residents of the State may apply for a license or permit to carry a concealed firearm,
or
the state does not prohibit the carrying of concealed firearms by residents of the State for lawful purposes.
It’s not ‘Constitutional Carry’ but it’s a very big step in that direction and well worth supporting.
The bill has 168 co-sponsors in the House and – to no one’s surprise - all of them have an ‘R’ after their name. The co-sponsors include New York Congresspersons:
Claudia Tenney,
Nick Langworthy,
Elise Stefanik,
These above three are reliable defenders of the 2nd Amendment.
Republican Congresspersons not co-sponsoring the bill include:
Nicolas LaLota (NY 1 – Long Island)
Andrew Gabarino (NY 2 - Long Island)
Nicole Malliotakis (NY 11 – Staten Island & Brooklyn)
Michael Lawler (NY 17 – NYC northern suburbs / Hudson Valley)
If you live in their districts, you might consider dropping them a line and asking why they are not co-sponsoring the bill.
Lawler is frequently mentioned as considering a run for governor in 2026. He seems to fall in to a trap that many Republican candidates fall into – they try to appeal to Democrats but alienate their Republican base and that base fails to show up on election day; they might get a few Democrat votes but lose even more Republican votes. But hey, they’ve got paid campaign managers advising them while we are just the voters.
