HB551 would propose to amend Montana’s Constitution by declaring that it is the “right of any person to keep and bear arms” [emphasis added] and removing the restrictive clause regarding the carrying of concealed weapons.
The House failed to pass HB551 on May 2, 2023, by a less than two-thirds vote of 62 to 34. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees that the right of the American people “to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”