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Concealed Handguns and Constitutional Rights

 

Kansas travelers are deprived of their Second Amendment rights by extreme restrictions by other states on the recognition of out-of-state concealed carry licenses, according to Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt last week to he 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Kansas concealed carry permits are recognized by 40 states, but permits are not allowed in 10 other states including Illinois which has a statute prohibiting residents of 45 states from carrying firearms.

 

AG Schmidt and 15 other state attorneys general asked the full circuit court to reconsider a recent ruling by a three-judge panel upholding the Illinois statute. They said Americans do not lose their constitutional rights when they cross state lines because the Second Amendment right belongs to all Americans extending to self-defense outside the home. But for residents of 45 states including Kansas, that stops at the Illinois border.

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