Trump Pushes National Right to Carry: Major New 2A Win Incoming?

This should make Second Amendment supporters a little more cheerful. President Trump, speaking on Tuesday to Mack Trucks manufacturing facility employees and supporters in Macungie, Pennsylvania, gave a ringing endorsement for what he called the national right to carry.

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JUST IN: President Trump reveals his administration is working on NATIONAL RIGHT TO CARRY

This would be an absolutely HUGE step towards bringing back the true meaning of the Second Amendment

LFG! Keep pushing for this, POTUS! pic.twitter.com/Jd8okQYgqY
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 23, 2026

The president said:

The (National Rifle Association) NRA, everybody, they really have been, they've been with me right from the beginning. And Bill asked me would I support the national right to carry legislation, how do you feel about national right to carry? (Cheers) That's my free poll. You know what that is? That's the free poll. You don't have to pay $300,000 to somebody that doesn't even do polling. To give you phony numbers. See, those are real numbers. National right to carry. Yeah, we're working on it.

Here's the question: What manner of national concealed-carry is being worked on, here?

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There are, pretty much, two possibilities.

First, the president may be referring to proposed legislation that would extend reciprocity of any state's concealed-carry permits to all states; this is already the case with state-issued permits and licenses like driver's licenses. Bills like the 2025 H.R.38 - Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2025 have been introduced, but haven't gone anywhere - yet.

Second, the president may be describing a national law establishing constitutional carry, or no-permit carry, which is already in place in 29 states, including my own Alaska. At present, there appear to be no proposed bills that would establish this, so the president is likely referring to the first option.

As a matter of "politics is the art of the possible," most of us in the Second Amendment movement would be happy to have option 1. We'd be happier with option 2, but that's probably not in the cards. We'd be downright delighted if the federal government and the 50 state governments would just consider the constitutional language that would seem to make either option 1 or 2 unnecessary:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

That's pretty plain language, not that the Constitution's generally plain language ever stopped any politician from proposing all manner of unconstitutional rubbish. But much as we would like any gun-grabbing politician being directed to the 2nd Amendment and being told, "No, you won't," this is still a battle that we need to fight. And the reciprocity argument is a strong one; the Constitution, in Article IV, Section 1, says:

Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.

That's why my Alaska driver's license is valid in Florida, and when Florida Governor Ron DeSantis comes to the Great Land so that I may take him trout fishing up on the Kashwitna (he's welcome any time), his driver's license is likewise valid here. That should apply to concealed carry permits, as well, as the issuance of such a permit seems pretty clearly to be a "public Act."

But we have to fight the fight, regardless. Now President Trump seems to have something in mind. We'll see what happens next.

Editor’s Note: The radical Left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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