By Mike McCoy (Resident)
Chillicothe Gazette
 
When Ohio’s original legislation allowing law-abiding citizens to carry a concealed handgun passed in 2004, there were dire predictions by the anti-gun crowd that there would be shootouts in the streets or worse.
Fast forward six years, and guess what? None of it happened.
How could the anti-gun crowd have been so wrong? The [...]

By Janelle Stecklein
janelle.stecklein@amarillo.com
 
Local officials say a new federal law that allows people to bring firearms into national parks and onto federal land isn’t expected to have a big effect in the Texas Panhandle.
But gun rights advocates said the new rules will offer visitors an extra measure of personal safety.
The federal law, which went into effect [...]

Texas Concealed Handgun Classes
And CHL News
 
 
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 With all the useless stimulus plans floating around these days, how about one that can actually save you some money.

Purchase any firearm from us and pay just $30.00 over our dealer [...]

Bearing arms
By BOB PALMER – Daily Tribune Editor
Gun owners around the country made headlines earlier this month by walking into Starbucks coffee shops with a “big iron” strapped to their hips.
This exercise of the “right to carry” could not happen in Texas, unless the person packing heat also owned the Starbucks, Titus County Attorney John [...]

By JENNIFER FEEHAN
BLADE STAFF WRITER
ToledoBlade.com
Five years after it became legal for Ohioans to carry concealed firearms, more people lined up for permits than in any year since the law took effect.
A record number of permits also were issued in Michigan last year, and across the country sales of guns and ammunition soared as well. While [...]

By Mike Stuckey
Senior news editor
msnbc.com
The one-third or so of American adults who can’t obtain permits to carry concealed weapons from their home states need only look to Florida and Utah — and their mailboxes — to legally carry hidden guns.Because both states grant concealed-carry permits to non-residents and have reciprocal agreements with other states under [...]

Jeremy Alford
Capitol Correspondent
DailyComet.com
 
 
BATON ROUGE — State Rep. Ernest Wooton, the former sheriff of Plaquemines Parish whose district once included portions of lower Lafourche, will again be pushing concealed weapons as a policy issue in this year’s session.
But it won’t be in the same form that garnered the Belle Chasse Republican headlines around the state in [...]

By Olympia Meola
Richmond Times Dispatch
 
 
The Republican-dominated House of Delegates advanced a slew of Second Amendment-related bills yesterday.
They ranged from a bill that would repeal the one-gun-a-month limit on handgun purchases, to shielding applicants for concealed-weapon permits, to protecting some Virginia-made guns and ammunition from potential federal regulation.
In all, about a dozen gun bills cleared a [...]