As detailed in previous columns, Trump, who has his own concealed-carry permit, took a strong pro-gun-rights stance in the campaign, and appears likely to pursue his sensible proposal that concealed-carry permits should be automatically recognized across state lines, the same way a Maryland driver's license is honored in Texas or Montana.

(The devil's in the details, of course. Those who hate armed and safe citizens — the "rape enablers" — can be counted on to respond by insisting on "tougher, nationally mandated standards" for permits, shrieking that otherwise anti-gun states will somehow be "endangered" by armed travelers from states with "weak permit rules." Will travelers from Arizona, Alaska, Wyoming and Kansas, who can carry without a permit in their own, armed and very peaceful states, find that right respected in the 45 states that lag behind in acknowledging this constitutionally protected right? And especially what about Vermonters, so accustomed to their right to carry concealed that there isn't any known way for them to obtain a "Vermont carry permit" to show when they travel across the line into Massachusetts or New York — since such a document doesn't exist? Time will tell.)