Jeffrey Johnson drives a truck for a living. He holds valid concealed carry permits from Florida and Georgia, and he carries a handgun on the road because long-haul trucking is not a low-risk occupation. But every time his rig crosses into Minnesota, the law requires him to unload that handgun and lock it in a container, because Minnesota does not recognize a permit from either state. Johnson has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to explain why a right he holds in Tallahassee and Atlanta evaporates somewhere around Fargo. The justices will discuss whether to hear Johnson v. Jacobson at their September 28 conference, and the outcome matters far beyond one trucker's glove compartment.

I spent time in the Marine Corps long before I built a career in institutional investing, and my brother served in Army Special Forces. My son is a West Point graduate and an Army aviator. I did not come to the Second Amendment through a law review article. I came to it through a family that has spent three generations training with firearms and depending on the judgment of the people who carry them. That background tells me something the current patchwork of state permit laws does not reflect: a right that depends on your zip code is not a right. It is a courtesy, revocable by the next legislature.

The Supreme Court settled the core question four years ago. In New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, the Court held that the Second Amendment protects an ordinary, law-abiding citizen's........

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