If Elmore Leonard is any guide, hit men commute to work in Miami Beach from Detroit with regularity. The crime novelist's characters invariably use the most sophisticated weapons - purchased illegally, presumably, since the typical Leonard character has a rap sheet as long as Princess Diana's wedding train. Leonard doesn't say whether they have difficulty getting them on and off the airplane. One is how to compensate for someone denied a license to carry a concealed weapon in Florida but who gets one out of state, like a Nevada divorce, and struts back into Florida with a fresh and legal bulge.
Concealed weapons are legal in Detroit.
In 29 states the licensing requirements are similar or less restrictive than Florida's. Bush might want to give this bill careful thought. When so many states with differing concealed weapons licensing requirements open up their state to weapons carriers licensed elsewhere, it amounts to an invitation to the federal government to make this kind of interstate commerce reasonable and consistent. Views here of what's reasonable and consistent aren't likely to be the same as Washington's.