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I've argued before that to me the most sensible route is to first shrink the areas where licensed carry is prohibitied to zero, based on licensed carry's fantastic record, THEN drop the license requirement. The antis, if they can't derail unlicensed carry altogether, will fall back to trying to burden it with as many restrictions as possible, and if there are still areas prohibited to licensed carry then it will be hard to argue to the general public that unlicensed carry should be allowed in them.

As I see it, it is much smarter strategery to work on expanding the areas that LTCers can carry, because it is easier to sell politically, given the outstanding legal records that LTCers have. If "constitutional carry" were tackled first and passed by some miracle, I have no doubt it would be loaded down with the current restrictions on carry plus a few more. It's just an much easier "sell" to expand the LTCers' turf first, then when all the restrictions have been removed, work on dropping the license requirement.