Posts in 'Constitutional Carry'

Has Ohio Been A Constitutional Carry State All Along?

Has Ohio Been A Constitutional Carry State All Along?

As I was looking into my travels this Memorial Day weekend I took a minute to have a refresher course on what the gun laws are in the states that I will be travelling to.  I am planning on heading to Cincinnati Ohio to root on my Alma Mater’s, the University of Pittsburgh’s, Ultimate Frisbee Team En Sabah Nur. Yes…your champion of gun rights and all things 2nd Amendment himself was a big time Ultimate Frisbee player.  With ESN, a team on which I was a founding member, I was a 4-time National Qualifier after an injury left him unable to continue playing football at Pitt…but I digress :o) Anyways, while I know Open Carry is legal in the Buckeye state (fortunate for me since Ohio and Pennsylvania do not have CCW reciprocity) I wanted to delve into the motor vehicle aspect of firearm transportation.  From what I heard...
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Common Sense Gun Laws Being Attacked By Gun Controllers

Common Sense Gun Laws Being Attacked By Gun Controllers

In Georgia, gun controllers are once again proving that common sense gun laws to them only include ones that seek to stamp out the 2nd Amendment completely. The gun haters are currently foaming at the mouth at HB-60 that is currently awaiting Governor Deal’s signature to be enacted into law. HB-60 basically tosses in a whole helping of common sense but the gun control zealots are once again doing their prognostication of blood running in the streets. Here are the highlights of HB-60: It allows CHOICE of private business owners on who they allow into their establishments Removes bars from the off limits list and treats them like every other piece of private property in GA in that the property owner has the right to eject a person from their property. Allows church carry if the church agrees to allow guns in churches and establishes up to a $100...
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My problem with the Utah CCW Permit

My problem with the Utah CCW Permit

You would think that a state founded by people who faced government oppression would have a healthy distrust of the Federal Government. After being driven from their homes in the east, having their First Amendment rights stripped, and having their territory whittled away by DC cartographers in order to minimize their influence and power in government, one might imagine the state of Utah would be a little less willing to play ball with the Federal Government.   Utah just passed the 500,000 mark for issuing concealed carry permits.  That’s about 25% of the population of the state. That doesn’t mean that 1 in 5 Utahns are walking around armed, though that’d be a great start.   Around 60% of those permits are for out of state residents who live in places that their state license might not grant them a great deal of reciprocity.  A Utah CCW will get...
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Open Carry should not only be legal, but encouraged

Open Carry should not only be legal, but encouraged

With recent cases of open carry being debated and argued in court and legislatures, namely Mississippi and Arkansas, one might question what the big deal is.  Depending on your mindset you might question what the big deal is one way or the other. There are the anti gunners who seem to crap their pants at even the THOUGHT of someone with a gun on their hips who would prefer to watch someone club a new born child to death and call it a really late term abortion than to see someone exercising their 2nd Amendment rights.  Then there are the pro gun people who, sometimes fanatically, rail against the practice of open carrying for a myriad of reasons from tactical disadvantage to “you’ll ruin it for everyone”. On the flip side you have the average OCer who just prefers that method to carry or doesn’t have the option to...
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And then there were 5, Arkansas enacts Constitutional Carry

And then there were 5, Arkansas enacts Constitutional Carry

Next month the free citizens of the state of Arkansas join with those of Vermont, Alaska, Arizona and Wyoming in exercising their constitutional rights without having to beg for the governments blessing. Act 746 of the 2013 General Assembly was signed into law by Governor Mike Beebe on April 4th, 2013 establishing that the 2nd Amendment is a right that cannot and should not be administered or limited to free law abiding people by a bureaucracy or political whimsy. The naysayers may initially have a conniption fit and rail about blood in the streets and so on, but as any reasonable person can understand, Act 746 shifts the guilt to actually criminals while allowing the law abiding to exercise their right without interference. To wit: A person commits the offense of carrying a weapon if he or she possesses a handgun, knife, or club on or about his or her...
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Maine illustrates the problem of regaining rights

Maine illustrates the problem of regaining rights

Both Houses of the Maine legislature have rejected a bill that would have done away with the concealed carry permit, making Maine the fifth Constitutional Carry State in the nation.  Arizona, Wyoming, Alaska and Vermont all allow carrying of firearms without the need for government approval to exercise the Constitutional right. While Maine is in New England it tends to follow that northern New England libertarian streak that its neighbors of Vermont and New Hampshire have.  The idea that they would follow Vermont’s lead and do away with the CCW scam that plagues so many states is not unheard of. Unfortunately, in the House it failed by a mere vote, in the Senate it was 7 on nigh party lines. Listening to the dissenters speak of the matter illustrates the issue of trying to regain rights.  The mentality of “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” comes into play.  The...
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