In the fight to restore order in the nation’s capital, the Trump administration is now engaging another, proven founding principle of the republic: The Second Amendment. Specifically, the District of Columbia’s concealed-carry permitting process time is being slashed, from months to days.
This is an unmitigated good thing, and actually is a fundamental liberty, not granted but protected by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
The concealed carry permit process also has been streamlined, Fox Digital learned. What used to take “several months” to obtain a concealed carry permit, has been cut down to 4.6 days, according to data compiled during the month of May by the task force, which the White House shared with Fox News Digital.
Appointments for firearm registration and conceal carry licenses also have been combined into one category to cut back on confusion over which option to choose when beginning the gun process. While the District will soon use third-party finger printers, in addition to Metropolitan Police Department machines, after the D.C. City Council voted to broaden where people can get fingerprinted July 28.
For a Second Amendment purist (like me), it rankles that any jurisdiction, anywhere, is allowed to require a government permit to exercise a constitutional right. (Alaska doesn’t.) But this is the world we live in; politics is the art of the possible, and in the District of Columbia, this may well be the best we can hope for – today. And we should note that before the Supreme Court’s decision in the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen case, we might not even have had that.