The question burning on all our minds…
[Via Jess]
Tag: concealed carry
More Guns Less Crime
Each state has carefully crafted its concealed-carry laws in the way that makes the most sense to protect its citizens… Clearly, large, urban areas merit a different standard than rural areas. To gut the ability of local police and sheriffs to determine who should be able to carry a concealed weapon makes no sense. It could reverse the dramatic success we’ve had in reducing crime in most all parts of America. –SENATOR CHARLES SCHUMER, 7/21/09 [More]
Except with more gun owners, more guns, and more widespread concealed carry, crime and violent crime is down, lower than it was then.
How much more evidence is needed that prohibitionists and Democrats (but I repeat myself) have been, are, and will be wrong on this I don’t know, as I’m not someone who would rule by emotions.
[Via CDT]
Related UPDATES
Maybe it’s a New York/places that make it harder for good people to defend themselves kind of thing. Just got these headlines:
Wi-Fi Gun Detection System Being Developed to ‘Out’ Concealed Gun Carriers
Aside from such obvious risks and liabilities, the in-development Wi-Fi system raises all kinds of privacy and legal exposure concerns. Because the absence of metal detectors or visible cameras notwithstanding, this is hardly, as the report characterizes it, a “nonintrusive alternative.” It’s highly intrusive and overrides the entire purpose of concealed carry. [More]
Who thinks this is really about stopping violent crime?
We’re the Only Ones Withdrawn Enough
Contra Costa County’s sheriff has agreed to withdraw concealed-carry restrictions on red-dot sights, weapon-mounted lights and single-action 1911/2011-style pistols following a Second Amendment Foundation lawsuit. [More]
In the Long Haul
A long-haul truck driver is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether Minnesota can shut off his right to bear arms the moment his rig crosses the state line—even though he holds valid carry permits from two other states. [More]
And all SCOTUS has to do to let denial of rights under color of authority continue is… nothing.
Hardly a Coincidence
Speaking of a Long Train of Abuses…
Reality Check
When Reality Bites: Gavin Newsom Has No Clue on Concealed Carry [More]
Sorry, PJ Media, but if you don’t think he knows exactly what he’s doing and why, you have no clue.
“Not evil just wrong” is both wishful thinking and self-destructive denial.
Reality bites.
[Via Dan Gifford]
You’ll Get Your Day in Court?
In the Spirit of Aloha
A new major federal court case has just been commenced in the US District Court of Hawaii challenging the state’s ban on non-residents being able to carry handguns in the state for self defense purposes… Alan Beck has set forth an impressive set of 35 pages of historical material that arguably can give rise to… a constitutional right to conceal carry nationwide. [Watch]
In a just world, text, history, and tradition trump Kapu tradition.
[Via Jess]
Related UPDATE
AmmoLand has more, including a link to the complaint.
Carry That Weight
Boy, You’re Gonna Carry That Weight
LAWYER: MASSIVE Court Case That Could Make It Illegal To Carry ANYWHERE! [More]
My initial instinct was to dismiss that title as just more gunfluencer clickbait hyperbole, but he’s right. If Republicans blow the midterms and Democrats take the presidency in ’28, this is just what they’ll do, and they’ll have the federal court/SCOTUS confirmations to make it so.
Thing is, making something “illegal” is not the same as taking away rights.
Surrendering them or not is a personal choice we each must make.
[Via Jess]
Thanks for Nothing?
Via email:
Q: Will the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act get a vote?
I am an original cosponsor of the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act. Once it passes the Senate Judiciary Committee, it will go to the full Senate. I look forward to voting for this legislation so Idahoans with concealed carry permits can exercise their rights in states with similar laws.
As you can see the language/ mood of the hoped for national concealed carry reciprocity has been changed to “can exercise their rights in states with similar laws.” As you are aware, CCW holders can already “exercise their rights in states with similar laws” and more. My ID ccw (which is unconstitutional and not required) is good in 40 states, not just the 28 with “similar laws.” This is a TOTAL slight of hand betrayal by alleged pro 2A legislators and needs exposure.
Just Imagine
…Imagine not knowing who among us us carrying a hidden, loaded gun…” [Watch]
Yeah, that’s kind of the point, and we don’t have to imagine: The public doesn’t “know” in every state of the union that has some kind of permit, and in 29 states that recognize permitless carry.
What Nick and Everytown are saying is they want everywhere, in every town, to be a “gun-free zone,” where the only “legal” arms are borne by violence monopoly enforcers and the rest by criminals and terrorists. It’s not just reciprocity they oppose — it’s ALL carry, and they’re counting on the herbivores dumb enough to follow them to also be too dumb to see they’re once more allowing themselves to be swindled out of their rights.
Imagine places where that is so… OK, not there but here… well, anyway, imagine being in such a place and then ask yourself how much good “anti-gun male” Nick Suplina would be at protecting his family or himself, and why he demands imposing that wretched impotence on men and women who can.
Mission Possible?
A Queens senior citizen who shot dead a man who tried to rob him will spend four years in prison after admitting to toting an unlicensed revolver — as his lawyer ripped the city’s “draconian” gun laws. [More]
Good morning, Ms. Dhillon. Your mission, should you choose to accept it…
[Via Andy M]
All You Need to Know
We’re the Only Ones Self-Contradicting Enough
No Question About It
The effort calls into question whether or not Massachusetts’ firearm regulations for out-of-state visitors are unconstitutional. [More]
Let’s see what the Supreme Court already had to say about that:
It would give to persons of the negro race, …the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, …to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased …the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went.
And everybody noticed they didn’t say a word about “permits.”
Funny, how even back then “give” was a thing…
[Via Edmund M]
Let There Be Lights
Just learned today of the sickening limits set by Contra Costa County (pop. 1.2m) for their CCW licensees. No Single Action only pistol allowed. Yes, implicates the 1911, 2011 etc. No Weapon lights allowed No Red Dots allowed No Lasers allowed No more than 2 weapons allowed [More]
If anyone has credible links to confirm the claims, please share them in comments.
[Via Jess]
We’re the Only Ones Self-Serving Enough
An officer should respect your right to legally carry — but what happens when he gets antsy and gets aggressive with you? In that moment, your heart’s racing, your hands are frozen, and you’re trying to decide if telling him you’re armed will calm him down or make things worse. [Watch]
Yeah, why don’t you consider his feelings for a change?
[Via Jess]