Across the river in Illinois, the argument is being made that the carrying of defensive firearms should be regulated at the federal level. Says Tim West, writing for the Naperville Sun-Times:

What it seems to me to be the best solution would be a federal concealed carry law that would apply to all the states.
That way, someone who travels from one state to another with a legal firearm wouldn't have to worry that he or she might be breaking the law in some state to which they may travel, even though they are in compliance with the law in their own state.

That many Illinois residents are frustrated at living in the only state* to outright ban defensive firearm carry, whether open or concealed, is quite understandable. The "choice" of being unequipped to defend oneself and one's family from violent attack, on the one hand, or of becoming a "gun criminal" on the other, is a grim one indeed.

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