Welcome back to the 41st installment of my blog, in which I don’t claim to be an expert, in fact, the opposite. I’m a new user to the AR platform and want to share my findings and experiences as I go through and build rifles as well as being the Operations Manager at Tyrant Designs.

Not to get all political on you guys but whether you like it or not our second amendment rights are always political. National reciprocity for concealed carry is no different as our members of Congress have been entrenched in a battle of whether or not it passes. I wanted to keep my readers in the loop with all developments on capitol hill.

I know this issue hits home for a lot of us. More often than not I see questions come up in the forums about someone traveling to a different state and whether or not their conceal carry license in their home state will be honored. I really feel for guys like that because I know many people travel for work and all they really want is to feel safe when they are somewhere foreign to them.

I have some good news, on Wednesday 12/6/2017, The Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act passed with bipartisan support 231-198. What bill H.R. 38 does, is it ensures that American’s who can legally conceal carry their firearm will be able to cross state lines without the fear of the different state laws around conceal carry. Additionally, the bill has the legal language to incentivize state governments to update the NICS so background checks can be performed with the most up to date data of violent criminals. Third, the bill will expedite the process of having incorrect records in the NICS be removed within 60 days of filing a complaint. Currently, this time frame can be up to a year!

In my hometown and Tyrant HQ of Chicago, we have one of the highest murder rates in the United States and licensed conceal carry users are not involved in any of these cases. Which brings me to the point, conceal carry is a thing, can we please just universally recognize it already? Next up, the bill needs to pass and go through the Senate.

Who here thinks twice when carrying across state lines?