Hell no!
What the government gives, the government can take away. Don't want to see Pandora's box opened.
No to national permit. No to national (government authorized) Constitutional Carry. Want them to stay out of my pockets and away from my rights.
Several States have done a fine job taking away what they never gave. Hence the risk of felony conviction and lifetime loss of rights for taking a wrong turn and ending up in NJ, NY, Maryland, etc.
The feds could ban carry tomorrow if they had the political will to do it. It would blatantly violate the constitution, but so do most other gun laws already on the books. Do you really think that not having a national carry permit or federally mandated recognition for State issued permits first, presents any impediment to the feds banning carry? It could it outright and there is only modest hope the courts would over-turn it. It could do it de facto and rather effectively by extending the 1000 foot gun exclusion range around schools to the actual distance a bullet might be dangerous, say 5,000 or 10,000 feet, and then remove the exemption for permit holders. Odds of today's courts overturning that type of ban are probably in the range of poor to slim.
And even what the feds have given, is rarely taken. Consider the following and tell me where I'm wrong.
I suppose--and hope--that some day Roe and Kitchen will be overturned. But even if they are, simply overturning those rulings won't force States to ban abortion and same sex marriage. And in the meantime, we're some 40 years and counting on nationwide elective abortion. These rulings were contrary to the majority of State laws.
I'd like to see some real reforms--at least--made to OSHA and federal anti-discrimination laws. What do you figure the odds are of that happening?
What do you figure the risk is of a reversal of Loving v. Virginia or Brown v. Board in your grandchildren's lifetime? These rulings were in harmony with the majority of States at the time they were made.
Legal provisions for law-abiding citizens to legally carry a gun in public for self defense is now the norm in the nation. Only a handful of States do not have shall issue permits, or better. Widespread recognition of permits issued by other States is also the norm. A federal law requiring States to show at least the minimal respect for the 2nd amendment of honoring permits to carry issued by other States would not be out of harmony with what the laws and culture of the nation have already done in most cases. But it would prevent some gross injustice and headaches in the few holdout States.
Any bill or ruling could go the wrong way, of course. But they could also go the right way...and a bill can be worded to be very good.
Besides which, with the exception of permit-free carry many of our States have gone as far as they practically can to restore RKBA without some sort of federal action. I'd prefer nationwide permit free carry, of course. But nationwide reciprocity with some minimum standard of where one can legally carry is probably the best we can hope for in the short term.
Charles