To: neverdem
Florida was among the first states to allow people to carry concealed firearms... Bull. My state had a 50-year head start on Florida. So did other states. Hasn't Vermont allowed this for hundreds of years?
2 posted on
04/26/2005 8:14:39 PM PDT by
68skylark
To: 68skylark
"Florida was among the first states to allow people to carry concealed firearms..." Bull. My state had a 50-year head start on Florida. So did other states. Hasn't Vermont allowed this for hundreds of years?
If the sentence in the article had been expanded, it would have been correct. IIRC, Florida was one of first states in the last two decades during the modern push for concealed carry privileges to obtain them. IIRC, Vermont has virtually no statewide gun control laws for all intents and purposes.
14 posted on
04/26/2005 8:48:13 PM PDT by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
To: 68skylark
In Vermont, all you need to carry concealed is a holster and a cover garment or a pocket and a smaller weapon. I feel bad for them, ANYBODY can carry in VT but Vermonters are not allowed reciprocity anywhere.
I think that the our uniqueness here in Florida is that it was one of the first to craft shall issue legislation in that if no disqualifying factors are uncovered (and there are some strict standards) within 90 days, the state SHALL (must) issue the permit. I think (IIRC) that other states have more leeway in saying no.
I've had a CCW permit in the states of Florida (since 1987 and still current), Alabama and Washington. In Alabama the sheriff in Tuscaloosa came outside the station, looked me over, I paid my $5 and was issued the permit on the spot. Maybe it was actually $15 for a 3yr permit in 1979. In the State of Washington, my military ID got me the permit. $25 for 3 yrs in 1981.
21 posted on
04/26/2005 9:28:01 PM PDT by
ExSoldier
(Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
To: 68skylark
The statement is bullship. I just did a research paper on CCW and found there were eight states prior to Florida to allow the right to carry.
Prior to 1980
Vermont No law
New Hampshire 1923
Washington 1961
Connecticut 1969
1980s
Indiana 1980
Maine 1985
North Dakota 1985
South Dakota 1986
Florida 1987
47 posted on
04/28/2005 3:54:51 AM PDT by
Ladysmith
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To: 68skylark
Despite our current Republican Governor Ehrlich (1st conservative to hold the office in 30 years), I doubt if Maryland will have the good fortune to have our 2nd Ammendment freedoms returned to us, as they were originally intended, anytime soon :(
50 posted on
01/06/2006 10:46:55 AM PST by
George - the Other
(400,000 bodies in Saddam's Mass Graves, and counting ...)
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