[RKV]

Courtesy of David Hardy at "Arms and the Law."

[RKV]

FYI

[Still Thinking]

Now we need to work on unpermitted concealed carry, i.e. you don’t need to submit your name beforehand.

[Egon]

Pling.

[GrandEagle]

The chart is incorrect. Alabama is a MAY ISSUE state legally. We the voters make it a shall issue state by replacing any Sheriff that fails to issue them.
Section 13A-11-75

[50mm]

Why the heck would anyone live in Illinois or Wisconsin? I’ll answer my own question. Because their chosen profession is armed crime and they want willing victims.

[Larry Lucido]

Good to see so many blue states. Need some more green states now.

[Eagle Eye]

Not until we’re all “Green Staters”.

Makes a whole new meaning to “Going Green”.

[Gay State Conservative]

In Massachusetts,police chiefs have the authority to deny an application and not state a reason.My understanding is that police chiefs in greater Boston (which makes up 75% of the state’s population) routinely deny applications.

[arthurus]

That proclamation is way too early. The Democrats control Congress and we just might elect gun-grabber Giuliani to the WH.

[SouthTexas]

Great map!

[theBuckwheat]

Just as importantly, CCW holders have sufficient numbers to be a identifiable sub-group by themselves. A lot of urban CCW holders don’t hunt or plink for the simple reason they didn’t adopt those activities as youth and there are no places for urbanites to engage in them. But there they have come to understand the necessity of the 2A through concealed carry.

If this was a deliberate strategery on the part of 2A defenders, it was very wise and prescient. If not, the growth in CCW was a very fortunate accident of history. I may have come alone just in time to save the 2A from the same fate as befell the 9th and 10th Amendments.

[RetiredArmy]

I love the terms under the yellow states: “. . . must be a celebrity?” For crying out loud!!!

[Tarpon]

How the Liberals lost the gun control argument, all their lies now fall on deaf ears, except the hold out states. Got to get to work there.

Congratulations to Jeb Bush for sticking with the NRA and getting it done. Floriduh at least got this right, led the way, does it make up for the 2000 election???

I still remember the last gasp recently in Florida when the Brady bunch tried to mount a campaign to stop British tourists from coming to the wild west. They came anyway ^_^

[theBuckwheat]

Observe that the very next story on FreeRepublic, in order after this one has the headline: “Poll: Most Say Ready for Next Disaster ( Women and minorities ...)”

For some people I know, 9/11 spurred them on to get their CCW, and this decision is reinforced by every attack here in the US that hints at being jihadist in nature.

LIke Baghdad Bob shouting “lies, all lies!”, the louder the authorities assure us that some attacks don’t have “any connection” with “terrorism”, the plainer it is that some of these attacks were carried out by jihadist-wannabes.

Life is just not as simple, nor as risk free as it used to be. Scripture carries the warning: he who has an ear, let him hear. The Boy Scouts say: be prepared.

The Left says both are voices that we don’t want to hear. Lalalalalalala, I can’t hear your warning. The left, worries about drowning in a warm rising ocean and laughs at people who take prudent precautions for risks that are real and contemporary, not theoretical and far in the future. Who is wise and who may die stupid?

[Database]

In California, by law you may carry an unconceiled weapon, but, for all practical purposes, it may not be loaded. Of course, you will be relieved of your unloaded, unconceiled weapon and, for a period, your freedom when confronted by an LEO for doing so.