“Basically, you could travel the US, from the Southeast, diagonally, to the Northwest with one CCW. Those states have one thing in common.”
As long as you avoid filthynois.
You wouldn’t have to go anywhere near it on the route I said.
If it weren’t for Chicago, that state would be completely different. Interestingly, so many of our restrictive gun laws, NFA, were born from crap that happened in that city. It really is a sh*thole, in so many ways.