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SOF Vets Can't Carry in All 50 States. This Bill Fixes That.

Green Berets and SEALs need a 'permission slip' to carry in anti-gun states. Congressman Pat Harrigan just introduced the bill to end that insult.

WTF News May 23, 2026 📖 2 min read

Pat Harrigan knows what these men are capable of. He was one of them.

A former Army Special Forces officer and Purple Heart recipient, Harrigan (NC-10) just introduced the **Special Operations Forces Concealed Carry Act**—legislation that would grant active-duty and veteran SOF personnel federal concealed carry authority in all 50 states, regardless of whatever carry restrictions a given state has erected.

Right now, the tip of America's spear can be turned away at a state line like a civilian who never fired a weapon in his life. That's not a policy. That's an embarrassment.

The bill mirrors the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act—LEOSA—which already gives qualified active and retired law enforcement officers nationwide carry authority. SOF operators train to firearms and marksmanship standards that exceed most police qualifications on the planet. The framework exists. The precedent exists. **The only thing missing was someone with the spine to extend it.**

Harrigan drew the line himself.

Anti-gun state governments have spent years stacking carry barriers that punish law-abiding citizens hardest—and that includes decorated special operators who answered every call this country ever made. These warriors didn't get a carve-out from danger when they served. They shouldn't get carved out of their rights when they come home.

There is no legitimate public safety argument against this bill. None. The gun-control crowd will either ignore it entirely or conjure some tortured objection—and either way, they lose the argument before it leaves their mouths.

**This is what pro-gun legislating actually looks like: targeted, logical, and impossible to oppose without looking like a fool.**

Watch whether your representative co-sponsors this bill. Watch who stays silent. Watch who invents a reason to vote no. Those votes are a gift—hand-delivered intel on exactly who thinks a Green Beret needs the government's permission to protect his family in every ZIP code in America.

**BOTTOM LINE:** The Special Operations Forces Concealed Carry Act is common sense with a combat patch on it. Call your congressman. Demand a co-sponsor. And if they won't back the men who bled for this country's freedom, you deserve to know that—before November.

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