[neverdem]

This year, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Virginia, South Dakota, Kentucky, Texas, Idaho, Montana, Utah, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Michigan, Maine, and Arizona have all enacted bills that weaken gun restrictions. Arkansas, North Dakota, Tennessee, and Maine have expanded the list of places where citizens may keep and carry weapons; Virginia, Montana, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Maine have made concealed-carry permit records confidential or limited public access to them; and the legislatures in Oklahoma and Kansas have sent bills to the governor that would provide “automatic reciprocity for all out-of-state concealed weapon permits.”

In South Dakota, residents with a concealed-carry permit may now carry a pistol while riding a snowmobile; Kentucky has not only removed its six-month-residency requirement for a concealed-carry permit but also instructed state police that they have 30 — not 90 — days to approve applications; Idaho has banned local jurisdictions from refusing to recognize concealed-carry rights; Utah has made it illegal for the state and for local jurisdictions to compel concealed-carry holders to disclose that they are carrying; and Mississippi has clarified the meaning of “concealed,” so that one cannot be prosecuted if a concealed gun becomes temporarily and accidentally visible.

BANG! Ladies & Gentlemen Congratulations!

[marktwain]

I think they are understating the case for the reforms to incrementally restore Second Amendment rights. For example, in Mississippi, what was passed was the right to open carry without a permit, not simply a modification of the concealed carry rules:

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/03/concealed-and-open-carry-in-mississippi.html

[fwdude]

Good news. But not enough!

[fwdude]

This just demonstrates a further polarization of this country. While these states were furthering 2nd Amendment rights, others were severely restricting them.

[neverdem]

I forgot you. BANG! Ladies & Gentlemen Congratulations!

[CatherineofAragon]

Related: Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia now allows students to carry concealed weapons on campus.

Bet you that’s one school that won’t get shot up by a lunatic. Or, if it happens, it’ll be a short-lived episode.

[Windflier]

Thanks for the good news ping!

[M-cubed]

u know..there was a time I used to “soft carry”..illegally...but now i dont...I can borrow one off the peeps i hang with if i need one....let them do the heavy lifting...*S*

[exnavy]

I love this country!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks neverdem.

[stephenjohnbanker]

B U M P!