Concealed-Carry Reciprocity Moves Forward

The article states, "It outright overrides restrictive concealed-carry regimes across the country", and well it should.
In regard to the question of a state forced to honor an out-of-state carry permit held by one of that state's residents; there would be no problem if ALL states were "shall issue" states.
Everything would work out just fine, if "may issue" states like New Jersey, where very few applicants are "granted" the right they were guaranteed under the 2nd Amendment, were stopped in their suppression of constitutional rights.
It is time such "restrictive" CCW laws were eliminated for what they are, denial of constitutional rights "under color of law".

When this discussion was going on a few months ago, part of the language was that residents of a state could use CCLs from different states in their own state only if their state of residency issued permits. So if a state does not issue licenses, then the proposed federal law could not compel that state to accept permits from other states. However, it does compel a state to recognize permits issued from other states if that state issues permits to its own residents. The problem for places like California and New Jersey is that they are very selective in who they issue permits to -- typically you have to either be very important/wealthy or you have to be a close personal friend of a politician or a higher-up in law enforcement in order to get a permit.

Federalism is great, but it should never be an excuse to deny Constitutional rights to a particular state's citizens. In this case, I am happy for the federal law to circumvent the best efforts of some states to deny 2A rights to its residents.

I think national reciprocity is a good thing but I do think that the permits should be like drivers licenses. You must have one from the state you are a resident of, if the state doesn't require a permit that is fine but you should not be able to be a resident of lets say New York and go to Montana and get a permit that then allows you to carry anywhere to include your home state.

With drivers licenses you are supposed to get a new one when you move states within a certain amount of time. It should be similar for concealed carry. If you move from Montana to New York your permit should stay valid, at least for a certain period of time, before you have to get one from New York but then since you already had a valid permit it should a simple matter to get the new one not the lengthy process a new applicant would have to face.

For active duty use the same rules that are used for drivers licenses, one from your home state or from the state you are stationed in since sometimes it can be difficult to go back to one's home-state and complete the process.