Yes. The laws are what they are. Pretty much each state to some extent regulates the carrying of guns in public. For a run down on each state's laws, see http://www.handgunlaw.us .i50sx said:...So the right to keep and bear arms is really only the right to keep arms?(according to the answers I have read.)
And you can bear arms only if you purchase the right to do so.(By paying your permit/instructor/backround checks you buy the right to bear arms...which you already have by residing in the US).
Seriously??...
About what?i50sx said:....Still kinda wonderin...
From across the river in the land of Hoosiers. I think that KY's laws are pretty common sense, even compared to IN's. Please keep them that way.
Here we go again with the poppy cock foolishness of some at the keyboard without knowing and some believing what they read."With the exception of (I think) Vermont you cannot legally have a loaded weapon in your vehicle. CCW
In real life, it can keep me from going to jail for carrying a gun illeagally. I consider that a good thing.NavyLT said:...what are the advantages of having a CWP system which permits persons to carry concealed, my answer would be there is none ....
In real life, it can keep me from going to jail for carrying a gun illeagally. I consider that a good thing.
That leaves 48 states and the District of Columbia, in several of which a private citizen can't lawfully carry at all, or in which his chances of getting a permit are vanishingly small.NavyLT said:In Alaska or Vermont just exactly how would one go to jail for carrying a gun illegally, if you were lawful to possess that gun,...
But all states aren't like Alaska or Vermont, and that's the point.NavyLT said:..If all states were such as Alaska or Vermont which do not require CWP's to carry openly or concealed, it would be virtually impossible for a person not prohibited from possessing a gun to carry that gun in an illegal manner....
wally626 said:Perhaps I am misreading the OP, but I think the question is. Is there any advantage to having a CWP system over just allowing people to carry without permits like Alaska and Vermont like plain reading of the second amendment would indicate?
There are a couple way to look at that.I was responding to this:
And stating that I do not believe there is any advantage to having a CWP system over just allowing people to carry without permits.wally626 said:Perhaps I am misreading the OP, but I think the question is. Is there any advantage to having a CWP system over just allowing people to carry without permits like Alaska and Vermont like plain reading of the second amendment would indicate?
I have trouble reading that as a question about a having a system, especially with the reference to being able to carry in one's car.i50sx said:Whats the benefit of having a CWP??
Cant a guy/gal carry a gun in their car anyway??