I just found out Iowa was this close to voting on an amendment for Constitutional Carry in 2020. Secretary of State Paul Pate didn’t file the paperwork. Not kidding. Public notice has to be given a certain number of months on a Constitutional Amendment, and Pate didn’t file it. Unbelievable. The implications of this are staggering. If it had passed it would not only have strengthened Iowa’s gun rights, but those of the entire nation by making Iowa the 15th State to enshrine it in a Constitution. That much harder for any future Legislature to tamper with it.

And Pate chucked all that out the window. The Iowa House had 6 seats flip to Democrats in 2018, God knows what will happen in 2020. The soonest we could vote on it now is 2022. If control of the Iowa House changes by then, we may never see that chance again (Seals and Crofts reference). My theory still holds, even more so. All sweat and money needs to be devoted to the Iowa House races. And there is one new caveat. Iowa gun owners need to donate to IFC and their Iowa House race. The national level gun groups and national level politicians are irrelevant to me. These state organizations are the ones getting it done:

Iowa Firearms Coalition  
P.O. Box 994
Cedar Falls, IA 50613