Member of the House of Representatives of Thomas Massy, Republican from Kentukka, and many others Republicans of the House of Representatives They put forward a proposal that will oblige the states to allow Americans to wear weapons in public places.
This measure, called the “National Constitutional Law on Wearing”, will prohibit states and settlements with limiting US citizens in wearing firearms in public places if they are entitled to carry weapons under state law and federal law.
“Prohibiting state or local restrictions on the right to carry weapons, HR 645 supports the initial goal of the law. The second amendment“To ensure the safety of a free state-simultaneously protecting individual freedoms from the encroachments of the government,” Massy said, according to a press release.
Left: a member of the House of Representatives of Lauren Bobert, a Republican from Colorado, during a hearing in the Committee of the House of Representatives for Supervision and Accounts in Washington, the district of Colombia, Monday, July 22, 2024; In the center: a member of the House of Representatives of Thomas Massey, a Republican from Kentukka, near the Capitol of the United States on Wednesday, December 18, 2024; On the right: a member of the House of Representatives of the Chip Roy, the Republican from Texas, is present at the inauguration of the elected US President Donald Trump in the Rotont of the Capitol of the United States on January 20, 2025 in Washington, the district of Colombia. (Left: Tirni L. Cross/Bloomberg through Getty Images; in the center: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images; right: Kevin Dietsh/Getty Images)
In particular, the text of the measure provides that “not a single state or political unit of the state can impose a criminal or civil punishment or otherwise indirectly limit the wearing of firearms (including by establishing a financial or other barrier for entry) publicly by residents or non -residents of this States who are citizens of the United States and otherwise have the right to own firearms in accordance with the laws of the state and federal laws. ”
“Any law, resolution, resolution, custom or custom of a state or political unit, which criminalizes, punishes or otherwise indirectly prevents the wear of firearms (including by establishing a financial or other barrier to enter) publicly through any resident or non -resident who is a non -resident who is, who He is a citizen of the United States and otherwise has the right to own firearms in accordance with the laws of the state and federal laws, does not have the strength or consequences, ”the extent says.
This measure will not apply to places “where the firearms are being carried out in accordance with the law of the state”, and will not prevent the owners of private objects to ban weapons in their premises.
Massey and others had previously put forward such a proposal last year.
In the United States, residents by law are obliged to own weapons and ammunition
A member of the House of Representatives of Thomas Massey, a Republican from Kentukka, arrives on the first day of the 119th Congress in the House of Representatives of the Capitol of the United States on January 3, 2025 in Washington, the District of Columbia. (Vin Maknami/Getty Images)
In 2021, Massey shared a family Christmas photo in which everyone held a gun in his hands.
“Merry Christmas!” – He wrote a persistent defender of the rights to weapons, sharing the photograph, adding: “PS. Santa, please bring cartridges. ”
In the report of 2022, he criticized the term “violence using firearms”, saying that he “is part of the language that the left is used to shift the guilt from the evil perpetrators of violence,” and that he “suggests that weapons are guilty, and not people that laid the basis for their agenda against the second amendment. ”
“There is a reason why you will never see that the communist, Marxist or even the socialist politician support the right of ordinary people to store and wear weapons: these forms of government require more subordination to the state than armed citizens could endure,” Massey also wrote in Twitter. in 2022.
A member of the House of Representatives of Thomas Massey, a Republican from Kentukka, leaves a meeting of the Republican Conference of the House of Representatives in the Channon building on Tuesday, January 7, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
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In a press release from the congressman, dozens of Republicans of the House of Representatives, including: representatives of Andy Biggs from Arizona, Lauren Bobert from Colorado, Josh Brechin from Tennessee, Eric Berlinon from Missourin from Virginia, are listed as initial co-authors. Michael Claud from Texas, Mike Collins from Georgia, Eli Crane from Arizona, Brandon Gill of Texas, Paul Gosar from Arizona, Marjori Taylor Green, Andy Harris from Maryland, Klei Higgins from Louisiana, Nick Languorsi from New York, Anna Paulina Moon from Florida, Mary Miller from Illinois, Barry Moore from Alabama, Nathaniel Moran from Texas, Andrew Ogles from Tennessee, John Rose from Tennessee, Chip Roy from Texas, Kit Selfh Texas, Victoria Sparz from Indiana, Claudia Tenni from New York , Tom Tiffany from Wisconsin, Randy Weber from Texas and Tony Visinzin.
