Idaho is celebrating 10 years of Constitutional Carry, and what has been noticeably absent are the doom‑and‑gloom predictions pushed by gun control advocates.
The fight for Constitutional Carry in Idaho began in 2012, led by the Idaho Second Amendment Alliance and grassroots gun owners. It took until 2016 for the first bill to become law, with additional expansions passed in the years that followed.
Now, a decade later, Idaho’s gun owners are right to point out that none of the dire predictions about the state “melting down” under Constitutional Carry ever came true.
Not the “Wild West.” Not “blood in the streets.” Not “shootouts in parking lots.”
As gun owners argued from the beginning, good guys with guns stayed good, and bad guys stayed bad, with or without a permit.
And Idaho isn’t unique. This same pattern has repeated across the country. From Vermont, which has never required a permit, to the two dozen states that have adopted Constitutional Carry, none of the sky‑is‑falling predictions have materialized anywhere.
So congratulations to Idaho gun owners for a decade of exercising your Second Amendment rights without needing government permission, though the Second Amendment should have been your “permit” all along.
Note: Greg Pruett served as the President of the Idaho Second Amendment Alliance, which he now leads as the premier project of Honor Idaho.
