The Republican-controlled Arizona House of Representatives has voted to repeal the state’s gun-free school zone laws, setting up a potential battle that only Gov. Jan Brewer (R) may be able to stop.
The House on Tuesday night passed a bill to end the prohibition of guns within 1,000 feet of schools. The measure would allow anyone licensed to carry a concealed weapon to have a gun within the buffer.
Garbage! First the 1,000 ft “Buffer zone” is bullshit. First there are no magical lines. Its easy to see a school building, and if you walk into one its understandable that you know what you’re walking into. (Not that somebody who’s sane and lawful on the sidewalk will become Death Incarnate as soon as they step into school grounds!) But where is the 1,000 ft line? That’s almost 1/4 mile, that’s not a short distance. Even the furthest parking spot at the Mall isn’t 1,000 Ft from the nearest entrance. Think of that distance and note that there will be houses and buildings between you and the school. Certainly if you want to park for a school function you can’t park in any of the School parking lots.
Also I’m curious if you live near a school. Can you suddenly not carry? Do you need to disarm to back out of your driveway?
Pure bullshit.
And of course there’s the logistics. Rather than bring a gun in a holster onto school grounds the Nannies think its safer to lock your gun in a glass box. Also they think its safer to force somebody to handle a loaded gun inside the cramped confines of a car?
No anti-rights person even knows what that entails, let alone THINK about it. They just know its shittier for lawful gun owners and that makes them happy.
Still it isn’t all bad!
States that have been or are considering bills in current legislative sessions include Colorado, Iowa, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota and Virgina, according to the NRA.
South Dakota could be the fifth state to join the ranks of permit-less carry states. Lawmakers last week passed a measure allowing anyone 18 and older with a valid state driver’s license to carry a concealed weapon, as long as they don’t have a background that would otherwise prohibit them from getting a permit. The bill awaits action from Republican Gov. Dennis Daugaard.
I have my doubts about Maine, as their Carry laws are reasonable in practice, but there is a LOT of vestigial anti-gun writing in the law that might come to light in a Constitutional carry discussion. But New Hampshire I see NO reason why it clings to its permits. Open carry is 100% legal without permits, no special training is required, the waiting period is inside of a week, even the card is a cheap peice of crap that doesn’t even have a photo, and residents fees are $10. At that point why even bother?
Further carry permits are just foolish. Jay mentioned in an article (that I can’t find…Jay, drop it in the comments, please), that S&W ships J-frame revolvers to Illinois. My PM45 is the only gun I regularly carry that I bought AFTER I was lawfully allowed to carry. Back in the 80s when so many states legally banned carry it wasn’t like Walther PPKs and little pocket .25s and .32s weren’t still in the gun shops.
If you can legally buy a gun, the only thing that is going to make you wait before you get your permit is respect for the law.
If the person has respect for the law what is there to fear? I mean if I don’t want to break the law by carrying into a post office, or an Elementary school, won’t have have as much respect (if not more!) for not robbing and murdering people?
Of course if anti-gun people were logical they’d be pro gun. Good luck to all of these states with their Constitutional carry fight, its been a wonderful law in Vermont, Alaska, Arizona, Wyoming, and most of Montana, it would be a shame for you other states not to enjoy it!

