[JimRed]

...but there is no right to carry a weapon for self defence 'just in case' - you need to have a reason to feel under imminent and real threat, so very few people routinely carry a handgun even if licenced.

Sounds like they used New Jersey gun laws as a model. A carry permit requires you to "prove a need", and the proof is never enough unless you're among the "connected".

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Sounds like they used New Jersey gun laws as a model.***

It has been said that “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!”

After all, Thomas J. Dodd, who was itching to register guns in the USA, used the Nazi Weapons law as his basis for the 1968 Gun Control Act.