Posted on 03/19/2022 10:06:55 AM PDT by rellimpank
Most adults and of-age teens in the United States go through the same process of getting licensed to drive: classroom or online instruction, as many as 100 hours of practice behind the wheel, and a skills test.
Far fewer people have that experience when seeking a license to carry concealed weapons.
On Monday, Ohio became the 23rd state to enact a law eliminating permits as a requirement for concealed carry. The Buckeye State closely followed Alabama, where Gov. Kay Ivey signed a similar law on March 10.
The back-to-back wins for gun-rights advocates who want to see fewer restrictions on the Second Amendment signal how partisan divides and relentless activism at the state level are significantly reshaping the landscape around gun possession.
“This is the latest front in the battle over gun rights in America,” said Adam Winkler, a law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles and an expert in gun policy and the Second Amendment. Winkler sees a broader takeaway in the changes to Alabama and Ohio’s gun laws.
Seventeen of the 23 states that allow permitless carry passed their laws in the past seven years. By contrast, concealed carry wasn’t even legal in every state until 2013, when Illinois lifted its longtime ban decades after most other states.
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They should teach gun safety at school.
(I love imagining the exploding heads of liberals!)
The firearms rights lobby is half way there.
Party like it is 1779.
New York, New Jersey and California will be the last three. I do see a general support of constitutional carry because it would clear the urban courts of another class of “while in the drug trade” crimes and prosecutors would have to focus on the mob activity and not the pawns in the streets.
No doubt NevaDUH will be next. NOT! You know, shoot outs at casinos and stuff, blood in the streets, rampant mass shootings.........
It’s a specifically enumerated Constitutionally guaranteed Civil Right.
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“states with looser concealed-carry laws had a higher homicide rate on average during a recent five-year period than the eight states with stricter permit laws — and that the role looser laws played in higher crime rates — if any — was unclear.”
I would guess they did not include Illinois/Chicago in the “eight states”.
They did at my Michigan high school in the early 80s.
There was a range in the basement and the rifles were kept in the principal’s office.
It was an elective.
Needs to be a Federal Law that when you are a resident of a state and have a conceal permit in that state, you are free to travel conceal carry in any other state. Just like your drivers license is valid nation wide.
—yep-—(unless Michelle Fiore gets back in the race for gub—and wins—not likely)
Hmmmm. I just got a money request the other day from Michelle. Not sure where this is going but probably sissypants already has vegas wrapped up. Unless Joey Gibert is working it harder than I know about . The re-elect useless kathy mantoes ads we’ve been seeing are 99% in espanol so we know she’s counting on new arrivals filling in the mail in ballots.
I graduated high school in ‘78.
We had a rifle range in the basement and they had only stopped the rifle team in ‘74.
It used to be “a thing.” It was part of the PE class structure...like drivers ed was.
Dirty Harry winks
There is no arguing with a dim. If they had common sense, as opposed to a high IQ, degrees, etc.) they would not be dims.
The right to bear arms is specifically stated in the 2nd Amendment as a right. Beyond that statement there is nothing more to say.
You still need a CCW permit to take advantage of reciprocity.
And a trend that the A-holes in my state (Washington) are doggedly resisting...
Oh please.
Did she ever consider maybe the crime rate has been up a LONG time before “loose laws”? Maybe the loose laws are to make it easier for normal people to guard against those thugs?
Mid-70s, JROTC had a range in the basement of the elementary school next to the high school. .22 bolt actions. KY.
Heh, that’s what the libtards always say. Then it doesn’t happen.
One said that to me once about my state. He retired so I can’t follow up with him on it. He’d probably just start making up jibberish until I told him to get of my office. That’s how they are.
The right to drive anything...including a horse drawn carriage...isn't mentioned once in the Constitution.However,the right to keep and bear arms *is*,and it's even stated that that right "shall not be infringed".
So there's your answer,Amazon Compost!
I still don’t know why we have to restrict anything, including having it “concealed”.
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