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The situation was not as bad as PGNH is making it out to be.
Take a look at Form 4473, and you'll see information on the back explaining how to deal with photo ID that does not also have your residence address on it, under Question 20.b. Alternate Documentation No big deal, just need to remember to bring your CHL along with your driver's license. No carry permit? Bring a tax bill

You want to carry? Move to VT, AK or AZ .... the ONLY three states with Constitutional Carry (i.e., no permit required to carry, openly or concealed.) Additionally, AZ has removed all county/city laws on knives, treating them as "arms" per the Constitution, and using State preemption to knock down all of the silly and stupid knife laws at the local level.

New Hampshire is getting there, with no permit required for open carry, state preemption, and their recent repeal of state knife laws.

Still need a permit for concealed carry (or carrying a loaded handgun inside a vehicle), but this permit is minimally intrusive and shall issue. Doesn't even require prints or a photograph.

This is how such an event plays out in a free state.

Except for the warning shot. Seriously, who fires a warning shot at an attacking dog?

Your average joe would be locked up for a long time if he shot a guy that punched him.

Beating somebody about the head will cause permanent injury, and is potentially lethal, so responding with deadly force is not unreasonable per Florida law That said, this guy was an idiot for putting himself in harms way in the first place.

One example of such a state constitution:

SECTION 22. RIGHT TO ARMS
Subject only to the police power, the right of the individual citizen to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

Constitution of the State of Illinois
Adopted at special election on December 15, 1970

What group *doesn’t* operate at least one capitol hill forwarding number? Here are the others I have found so far, along with who appears to be behind them:

1-800-828-0498 Families USA
1-866-311-3405 SEIU
1-800-459-1887
1-800-614-2803
1-866-340-9281
1-866-338-1015
1-866-220-0044 NARFE
1-800-417-7666
1-877-851-6437 (popular on DavidDuke.com)
1-866-924-6242 NAHB (National Association of Home Builders)

What group *doesn’t* operate at least one capitol hill forwarding number? Here are the others I have found so far, along with who appears to be behind them:

1-800-828-0498 Families USA
1-866-311-3405 SEIU
1-800-459-1887
1-800-614-2803
1-866-340-9281
1-866-338-1015
1-866-220-0044 NARFE
1-800-417-7666
1-877-851-6437 (popular on DavidDuke.com)
1-866-924-6242 NAHB (National Association of Home Builders)

Actually, they probably do ban the first amendment, and that is their right.

Just try standing inside any store and handing out campaign literature, hold a prayer service, or give a speech for (or against) Obamacare, and you'll swiftly learn that private businesses have every right to restrict the exercise of these rights inside their place of business.

And we have every right to take our business elsewhere.

Great. As California goes, so El Paso, TX goes.

Saving grace is that Texas has statewide preemption, so cities can't really go to far with firearms laws. In my experience, Austin is more like California, haven't had too many bad experiences in El Paso, What have I been missing?

Check out this PDF file from Fort Bliss from October 2008:

https://www.bliss.army.mil/bliss_home_files/documents/2008Policies/MFR%20Amnesty%20for%20Failure%20to%20Register%20Privately%20Owned%20Firearms.pdf

If that link is broken due to length, try http://preview.tinyurl.com/ftblissamnesty

To be fair to AARP, the page linked to from the "johnjacobh" blog article wasn't written by/for the AARP, it's generic health information 'branded' by the AARP web site. The bottom of the firearms page reads:

This article has been licensed by Healthline from Thomson-GALE...

I heard some idiot talking head say they are unarmed because then it takes longer to get into certain ports to dock. I am sure someone else heard that also and I am not making this up.

Sad, but true.

Most ports have very strong arms control, and are very nervous about letting armed private vessels dock, will require an inspection and strict inventory of any arms you declare, and have draconian penalties if they find any undeclared weapons.

If you are not a military ship, many Harbormasters will freak out if you declare anything that comes even close to being a military weapon -- as mentioned elsewhere, shotguns and low-power single shots will just get you hassled, try to come into port with pintle mounted .50s and belts of APIT and you'll get the hairy eyeball and hours of delay, if they let you dock at all. With even puny firearms, many nations have a policy that they take all weapons into custody until you cast off.

I've heard of a few magayatchs which will drop off a large lifeboat with a skeleton crew, just beyond the twelve nautical mile boundary, so they don't need to go through this.

Besides the issues of cost and availability, the gun insurance requirement is also a means of tracking gun ownership. It will require gun owners to either willfully violate the insurance law, subjecting themselves to criminal penalties (what are the chances that an overzealous police chief decides that there will be insurance card checks, and making impromptu visits to shooting ranges or hunting venues), or self-report ownership, which is one more incremental step towards first state, and then national registration.

Illinois already mandates self-reporting through the FOID act.

Created in 1968, FOID identifies persons eligible to possess and acquire firearms and firearm ammunition. Illinois residents who acquire or possess firearm or firearm ammunition within the State must have in their possession a valid Firearm Owner's Identification (FOID) card issued in his or her name. Not only that, but Illinois' UUW law makes CCW a felony (except for certain politicians), and does not preempt local ordinances banning firearms. Residents and non-residents alike are often prosecuted under restrictive local firearm ordinances, particularly in Cook County.

In Illinois, some pellet guns and all muzzleloaders and blackpowder guns are considered firearms

It won’t matter soon. Hussein Obama will see to it that federal legislation overrides state laws on CCW or makes a CCW virtually worthless within city limits.

Except the president doesn't get to write legislation, and it would be political suicide for your elected representative from your CHL-issuing state to vote for such a bill. We're more likely to see Federal CHL reciprocity passed than to see CHL restrictions passed, even though Obama has said in the past he will "push" for a Federal CCW ban.

There will probably a Reichstag fire type incident and gun owners will be demonized and thoroughly beat up by the media before he acts.

For some clues how he will operate, refer to German history in the late 1920s and 1930s.

Thus far he has been following the National Socialists plan almost word-for-word.

And this, not racism, is the real reason he cannot get the Jewish vote. They've seen the show before...

The law to escalate UUW to a felony was eventually passed, I don't have the exact bill or date on hand.

The Illinois law was originally written to only apply to certain classes of criminals (gang members), and leave the crime of concealed carry as a misdemeanor for otherwise law-abiding citizens. A few changes later, and the felony applies to all, with the exception of police and and certain politicians.

If the Republicans had any brains (yes, I know), they could deflect this whole issue, silence the gun-control lobby, and disarm (ha,ha) the RATS by “closing the gun show loophole” by simply saying anybody buying a gun at a gun show has to undergo the same instant check as a buyer at a gun store...

The phrase "gun show loophole" is code for "unregistered private sales,anywhere, loophole".

The goal is to pass a law akin to what you cite above, but require the instant check and full buyer/seller/make/model/serial on all firearms transfers, at a gun show or anywhere else.

California, for example, already has this law in place.

The goal isn't to hurt Obama in the popular vote, but rather to swing contested states over to McCain. So no ads in states where Obama has a lock, but saturation media buys in Ohio, Virginia, Florida, Colorado, New Mexico, etc.

That said, I'm surprised there's no NRA ads showing in Indiana, but they do seem to be taking an oddly low profile in Penn?

It's still may issue. The CLEO just exercises his choice not to do so.

In Wisconsin and Illinois, there's no maybe about it -- there is no such thing as lawful carry; the exception being for the Chicago aldermen who have a convenient state law granting them special dispensation.

There's an even more detailed map available from gunmap.org, including printer-ready PDFs.

A few decades back, the USA had a federal law requiring similar record-keeping for handgun ammunition.

The law was repealed in the mid 80’s, after it was shown there was *ZERO* law enforcement benefit to all the extraneous regulation.