Green Beret Congressman: SEALs & Rangers Carry Anywhere—Period

Congressman Pat Harrigan (NC-10) dropped the Special Operations Forces Concealed Carry Act this week, a bill that extends federal concealed carry authority to both active-duty and veteran special operations personnel—SEALs, Rangers, Green Berets, Delta operators, all of them.

The problem it solves is almost too stupid to believe.

The most elite firearms operators on earth—men and women who qualify to standards that make most police departments look underprepared, who execute classified missions under conditions no civilian licensing board can even imagine—lose their carry rights the instant they step into a gun-control jurisdiction on American soil. Same sidearm. Same operator. Different zip code. Suddenly: criminal.

**That's not a gun law. That's an insult.**

Harrigan isn't a politician cosplaying as a veteran. He served as an Army Special Forces officer before winning NC-10 in 2022. He has been inside the world this bill protects, and he is not guessing at what it costs operators to be disarmed by a governor who couldn't pass a basic range qualifier.

The legislative hook is clean and airtight. The Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act—LEOSA—already grants qualified off-duty and retired law enforcement officers federal concealed carry authority in all 50 states. Congress made that call years ago, and it was the right one. Harrigan's bill runs the same play for special operators. If a retired cop can carry anywhere in the country, there is zero coherent argument for leaving a retired SEAL defenseless in New York City.

Zero.

Expect the Bloomberg network and their Capitol Hill allies to brand this bill extreme or dangerous inside of 48 hours. Ignore the framing—it is deliberate misdirection, and they know it. This legislation does not change who can purchase a firearm. It does not loosen background checks. It recognizes one simple truth: people who have already proven elite-level weapons competence in the harshest conditions on earth should not be stripped of their rights by a state government.

**This is the 2A offense Congress should be running in 2025**—not just blocking ATF overreach, but actively clawing back rights that never should have been restricted in the first place.

Watch which House members sign on as cosponsors. That list will tell you everything about who actually supports the troops versus who just posts on Veterans Day.

Call your representative today. Tell them to cosponsor the Special Operations Forces Concealed Carry Act. And tell them plainly: if they won't stand behind the operators who stood in front of America's enemies, voters will find someone who will.