Say you have a Mississippi driver’s license and you drive to Pennsylvania. A Mahoning Township cop pulls you over for doing 30 in a 25 mile-an-hour zone and asks to see your license. He’ll give you a speeding ticket, but he won’t arrest you for not having a Pennsylvania driver’s license.
Now Senator John Cornyn of Texas has introduced a bill to allow people who have a license to carry a concealed weapon in their home state to carry it in any state, even in states with strict laws against concealed carry.
Cornyn has said it’s just like a driver’s license.
Not so much. To get a driver’s license in Mississippi, you must actually know how to drive. You have to pass a test. It has a written part and a driving part, pretty much like Pennsylvania’s.
To get a permit to carry a concealed weapon in Mississippi, you have to fill out a form. That’s it.
To get one from Florida, according to columnist Gail Collins, you send $112 to the Florida Department of Agriculture. You don’t have to live in Florida.
The National Rifle Association, of course, backs Cornyn’s bill.
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