#GUNVOTE 2020: Help Drive Voter Registration Constitutional rights don’t end at a state’s borders and legal barriers to lawful self-protection shouldn’t either. The legislation would allow handgun owners who are legally permitted and authorized in and by their home state to carry a concealed firearm in other states they must comply with the laws of each state. These bills eliminate the pitfalls 20 million Americans must navigate around when travelling from state-to-state. This makes it all that much more important that Congress take action on the NSSF-backed Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, H.R. Pennsylvania law states municipalities must process applications within 45 days, and neighboring Bucks County is processing applications without delay, even with COVID circumstances. In Pennsylvania, the backlog in permit processing has led to lawsuits.Ī lawsuit was filed against the Philadelphia Police Department for requiring concealed carry permit applicants to wait up to 18 months. Those states included Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Washington. So far, 800,000 Americans have obtained their concealed carry permits in 2020, notably less than totals in 20, 1.4 million and 890,000, respectively.Ĭontributing to the reduction in permit application growth is the fact that thirteen states ceased processing concealed carry applications altogether for a period of time. That’s evident in the dip in year-to-year examinations of permits. Some states used coronavirus pandemic shutdown orders as an excuse to pump the brakes on processing concealed carry permit applications.