Per that obsolete, forgotten document, the US COnstitution...states are required to give full faith and credit to the legal actions of other states. That's why you don't need an Oregon drivers license to drive in Oregon if you're licensed in another state.
But, when it comes to gun rights, we have to force the issue. A favorable decision from the Supreme Court in the MacDonald decision that is expected soon will change things drastically for the better. Keep fingers crossed.
Uh no. The Full Faith and Credit clause applies to legal judgments, not legal actions. Driver's license recognition is not a matter of constitutional law and McDonald won't change a thing when it comes to CCW licenses.
Professor Eugene Volokh, who is a professor at UCLA and runs the Volokh Conspiracy legal blog, put it this way:
"Thus, a state has no constitutional obligation to recognize driver's licenses from other states. I'm not sure whether there's some federal law mandating such recognition, or whether states just do it as a matter of "comity," which is to say out of a desire to work well with other states (and to get reciprocity for their own citizens). But in any event, such recognition was a democratic choice, not a constitutional command. Likewise, states can often do refuse to recognize out-of-state professional licenses, such as licenses to practice law or medicine."
