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« GunFacts is fundraising | Main | An interesting idea »

Updated graph on laws on carrying

Posted by David Hardy · 11 April 2016 09:44 PM

No Lawyers, Only Guns and Money has an updated one online. It says something that things are changing so quickly (and all in the direction of greater freedom) that you have to make sure any chart is up to date.

In terms of population, they calculate that 65% live in "shall issue" states, 27% in "may issue," 7% in "don't need" and 0.4% in "can't get" states.

It's not so many years ago, I think up 'till the mid 1980s, that the entire country was, in terms of concealed carry, either "can't get" or "may issue," Vermont being the one exception. (Like many western states, Arizona was "can't get" for concealed carry and "don't need" for open carry).

5 Comments | Leave a comment

rick | April 12, 2016 7:17 AM | Reply

The question is that if concealed is 'can't get' or very limited and open carry is verboten is then the condition created that RKBA is voided?

Exhibit A: California, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut. Any of those states individually or collectively.

ACS | April 12, 2016 10:43 AM | Reply

Washington State adopted shall issue in 1961.

Gunstar1 | April 12, 2016 12:03 PM | Reply

Georgia went from "may" to "shall" in 1976. It is always listed wrong on

Jim D. replied to comment from rick | April 12, 2016 1:06 PM | Reply

I've read that the Heller decision declared that ONLY open carry is a Constitutional right. But, applying it to the provincial tyrannies with their outdated laws remains risky and easily thwarted. The one case in California I know of that directly addresses the question is just asking for a simple declaration that a law is in violation of Heller. It was filed over four years ago and has been thwarted by the CA Attorneys General and held in abeyance by the courts pending resolution of other "related" cases. Meanwhile, anti-gun legislation continues to pass based on the assumption that the 2nd Amendment CAN be restricted, most likely in the hopes that a reversal would create havoc and gain a sympathetic ruling from the courts. Yes, it's disgusting.

See http://goo.gl/eR8huI for more information.

Matthew Carberry | April 12, 2016 8:56 PM | Reply

Mass, CA, NY, DE aren't bad county by county. Their rural areas are permissive may-issue to shall.

When you narrow it down by coty/county the Constitutional Carry pop #'s are up to about half the actual effective "no-issue" jurisdictions.

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