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Has anyone SERIOULSY considered relocating their residence; or actually done so, in response to uncomfortable (illegal) gun control laws?
What are the most gun-owner friendly states to live in?
Personally, I'm reluctant to move.
Draconian measures would dictate otherwise to me; and I'd not hesitate to re-affirm my Constitutional Right somewhere else. Cold climate; hot climate; freedom's more important to me. Where do we go?

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Went from California to Florida, just before I had to register the better part of my collection. Pretty sad statement of the times...
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by citizen:
Has anyone SERIOULSY considered relocating their residence; or actually done so, in response to uncomfortable (illegal) gun control laws?
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I live in the People's Republic of Massachusetts and plan on moving when I can retire. There were some pretty restrictive laws when I moved here in 1991, but I was unemployed and had a fantastic job offer. Since then it has gone downhill as our AG instituted some "consumer protection" laws whicj effectively outlawed the sale of almost all new handguns. It is slowly getting better as more guns become "Mass compliant", but the basic hostility towards the honest firearm owner remains. I was lucky to have an understanding Chief of Police who granted me a License to Carry Firearms which was annotated for Personal Protection, thereby allowing me to carry concealed. But that could change in a heartbeat. For this, among other reasons, I do plan on going somewhere out West. Hopefully Washington state will remain a good place to live.

Frosty
 
I grew up in Illinois and moved to New Mexico. It's a world of difference. In Illinois, we needed a FOID card just to buy bullets.
 
I still live in Illinois. Don't plan to move. My widowed mother is here, I own property here, house, farm, business. Will soon have our first grandchild nearby. etc.
SKRew the politicos
I'm hoping a major earthquake will put Cook and Dupage counties ( aka Chicago) in the middle of Lake Michigan and things might improve for us "down-staters". If not, I guess I'll use whatever peaceful/legal means I have at my disposal.
 
I don't plan on staying in the People's Republik of Kalifornia much longer. I don't hold out much hope for a political turnaround here.
 
Although I am desperately trying to find work, I am equally desperately trying to NOT find work in any gun-unfriendly area other than DC.

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Well, I've already turned down job offers from NJ and CA, due to the anti-gun situation there...does that count?

If anyone needs a long-haul comms specialist, let me know? :) Voice and data circuits and trunks, satellite systems (to a point) and I'm working my way toward a CCNA certification.

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Mike
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As I am retired, I can move anyplace I want. When Mass. went off the deep end with the new gun bans, earlier this year, I packed my stuff and left. Moved to New Hamp. The "Live Free or Die" state. Love it, and will never look back.
45 Shooter
 
Nope. Other than the politics I like where I live (rural Northern Kalifornia).

For those of you who believe that moving to another state is a long-term solution, let me remind you that Federal law will eventually catch up to you. Such laws will certainly become more draconian if every pro-gunner ended up in hiding out in a few states (imagine 10 pro-gun Senators vs. 90 anti-gun, for example).

If anyone should move, let the antis...straight to Hell.

[This message has been edited by RMc (edited October 16, 2000).]
 
RMC But you forgot that if a few states could get rabidly pro gun the states themselve would oppose the feds on a large scale, like has happened in NV,And WYOMING on a few small things. In most likelyhood it wont happen like that but is a nice thought.

I still live in the PRK but definitly plan on moving in the future, and anti laws are the primary with mass population and immigration next.
 
Fortunately, my parents smuggled me over the Cornbelt Curtain and across the Mason-Dixon Line to freedom when I was 10. Here in Atlanta, I can only look back and be glad we didn't remain in Chicago. No special state firearms restrictions; if the Feds'll let you own it, than it's fine by our state government. Class III? Did the folks in Washington say it was okay? If so, it's cool by us. No Orwellian "This peon is allowed to own a firearm... for now." Gun Owner's ID cards/permission slips. Toter's permits are ~$35 and a background check and look like they were typed/mimeographed/laminated as a 3rd grade arts'n'crafts project. No photos, no classes, no "proof of need", no "qualifying" just to exercise your Gawd-given right to tote a concealed shootin' ahr'n. Heck, you don't even need any kind of permit to just toss a loaded pistol in the glovebox or console of your car, or leave it in plain view on the seat or dashboard, whichever. Detachable mags? Hollowpoints? Non-gelded mags? Knock yourself out. Evil plastic pistols with no external safeties? Hey, their US offices are 10 miles from where I'm now sitting.

Short of Vermont and Arizona, there aren't many places with more respect for the right to own things that make loud and cool noises.

:D

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by 45 Shooter:
As I am retired, I can move anyplace I want. When Mass. went off the deep end with the new gun bans, earlier this year, I packed my stuff and left. Moved to New Hamp. The "Live Free or Die" state. Love it, and will never look back.
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45,

What are the gun laws like in NH? I've had more than one invite from a friend of mine to apply for a job in his company?

AFB


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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by RMc:
Nope. Other than the politics I like where I live (rural Northern Kalifornia).

For those of you who believe that moving to another state is a long-term solution, let me remind you that Federal law will eventually catch up to you. Such laws will certainly become more draconian if every pro-gunner ended up in hiding out in a few states (imagine 10 pro-gun Senators vs. 90 anti-gun, for example).

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True, but that's how this nation is supposed to work. If you don't like where you live then move. States rights!
 
My dad was in the USAF, so we moved all over, but my parents grew up in Plano and most of my extended family lives in TX and LA. I've spent more time in MD than anywhere else (bounced back and forth between MD and VA since '83), but I claim TX as my "true home."

I was in the process of moving from MD back to TX when I got intercepted (boy meets girl, boy & girl fall in love, get married, girl goes to grad school, girl gets pregnant, girl doesn't want to move so far away from parents when trying to deal with newborn... you know, the standard spiel :^).

Anyway... the wife is out of grad school, the boy is now 15 months old, and I'm laying groundwork; with luck I'll be leaving whacko-land next year.

Primary consideration for relocation was... well, bottom line, I just don't understand the people up 'round here. Their politics, their laws, their taxes, the way they build roads, the way they drive -- none of it.

Worse than the idiotic "gun control" laws they keep passing is the [non-]thought process that gets them there... and that's what I'm afraid of. Anybody that can rationalize the complete abrogation of the 2nd, 4th, 5th, and 9th Ammendments is way outside my ability to grok, and I just need to get the hell away from 'em.


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Hey folks, if you want to move it's your God-given right and I have no problem with it. Moving to a more gun-friendly state will, if nothing else, give you a little bit more time to legally accumulate more weapons.

But I still stick to what I stated in my first post: the increasingly anti-gun composition of the states you leave behind will insure that anti senators and representatives are sent in incresing numbers to Washington. (Remember that even Kalifornia still has more pro-gun Representatives in its delegation than most of your states. What's going to happen to them if we all tuck our tail between our legs and move?) The few senators and representatives that pro-gunners would send from enclaves like Idaho, Montana, Alaska, etc. would not even be able to come close to blocking the crap that would come down the chute. And come it will.

As for states standing up against Federal gun control, a threat of no highway funds from Uncle Sugar would put an end to that right quick. Sure you might have a Sheriff or County Commissioner here or there who might resist, but in the end they would certainly be persuaded by more convincing arguments (police state tactics).

I guess what I'm trying to say is if you want to move, by all means move, but at the same time please also think of the long-term political consequences for us all. I can only speak for myself in saying that I will stand my ground right where I am and that I'll be damned if some statist scumbags in Sacramento are going to chase me out with their laws, which deserve only contempt and non-compliance anyway.
 
I have one better than that. I am saving money for laser eye surgery so that I can get a cop job somewhere in Notheast PA and get out of MD. Maryland sucks and I curse my wife for being form this Anti-gun mecca. Well not really curse her, she can shoot too.

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Once I finish my degree in 2 more years, I am considering the BIG move over the Pacific pond to the U.S. .Including the change of citizenship, so I will become another member of the famous and huge "young kiwi brain-drain".

Would I prefer to stay in my place of birth
-ABSOLUTLEY, but being realistic the voters of N.Z. are divided by either left-wing socialists or right-wing bureaucrat lovers, both equally anti-gun.

Any pro-gun states play rugby in the U.S. and have a need for high school history teachers ?
 
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