Gun Owners of America Wins 3 State Carry Cases, Presses for 50-State Reciprocity

2 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jul 1

New York, California and Hawaii have all been forced by Gun Owners of America-backed litigation to loosen concealed-carry restrictions, including opening permit pathways to qualified out-of-state applicants and striking down Hawaii's broad private-property carry ban.
The group says those wins rest on the Supreme Court's 2022 Bruen ruling, which affirmed a right to carry outside the home and undercut state rules that treated the Second Amendment differently from other constitutional protections.
Illinois is now the next target: it recognizes permits from only 6 states—Arkansas, Idaho, Mississippi, Nevada, Texas and Virginia—and GOA argues that number should be all 50.
Congress remains a tougher route. A national reciprocity bill has support from President Trump, but the last Senate vote in 2013 drew 57 votes, short of overcoming a filibuster.
Twenty-nine states now recognize constitutional carry, and GOA says it will keep using courts and state legislatures to expand carry rights until federal reciprocity becomes law.