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Maryland temporarily becomes a right-to-carry state

Maryland temporarily becomes a right-to-carry state

From CBS Baltimore:

It will soon be easier to carry a concealed weapon in Maryland. A federal judge finds part of a state gun law unconstitutional. . . .
It’s a victory for opponents of gun control in Maryland.
A federal judge in Baltimore issues a ruling that affects Maryland’s concealed carry permit law.
Until now, gun owners needed to prove they had a good or substantial reason for a permit, but that has been struck down.
“Even without this good and substantial showing we have one of the most restrictive regimes in America, in Maryland here for getting a permit to carry a gun,” said attorney Carey Hansel. . . .

New op-ed in the New York Daily News: Concealed weapons save lives, The evidence is clear: Massacres are stopped by legally armed citizens

My newest piece there starts this way:

Friday’s horrible shooting in Colorado occurred in yet another place where guns are banned. And that’s consistent with a trend: With a single exception, every multiple-victim public shooting in the U.S. in which more than three people have been killed since at least 1950 has taken place where citizens are not allowed to carry their own firearms.

The Cinemark movie theater in Aurora, like others run by the chain around the country, displayed warning signs that it was illegal to carry guns into the theater.

This applied to all nonlaw enforcement personnel, including individuals with concealed handgun permits. In other words, despite more than 4% of the adult population of Colorado having concealed handgun permits, a gunman intent on killing a lot of people could be confident that law-abiding citizens there would be sitting ducks.

If one of the hundreds of people at the theater had a concealed handgun, . . .

Mayor Bloomberg has a competing piece also on guns in the same newspaper and his is "Gun Control Cannot Wait."
New paper published in the University of Maryland Law Review examining research on concealed carry

New paper published in the University of Maryland Law Review examining research on concealed carry

My newest paper entitled "WHAT A BALANCING TEST WILL SHOW FOR RIGHT-TO-CARRY LAWS" is available here.  The paper summarizes the research on concealed carry laws and discusses United States District Court Judge Benson Legg’s decision to strike down Maryland’s requirement of a “good and substantial reason” for issuance of a handgun permit in Woollard v. Sheridan (No. L-10-2068, 2012 WL 695674 (D. Md. Mar. 2, 2012)).
Concealed handgun saves man's life in National park

Concealed handgun saves man's life in National park

Remember the claims that there was no reason for people to carry handguns with them when they are in national parks?  From Arizona Central:

. . . A Tempe man who was attacked by a bear in his tent near Payson was in surgery Sunday afternoon at Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn with severe but not life-threatening injuries.
The unidentified 30-year-old man was sleeping at 5 a.m. when the black bear attacked him at Ponderosa Campground in the Tonto National Forest just off Arizona 260 about 12 miles northeast of Payson.
"He was bitten in the head and the left arm," said Jim Paxon, spokesman for the Arizona Game and Fish Department.
"The bear drug him around the tent, but he did not receive skull-crushing or neck-crushing injuries to his brain stem, so that's a marvelous thing."
As soon as the bear attacked, the man's fiancee, in the tent also, screamed and escaped from the tent with her small child.
The bear went to a nearby campsite, where a camper shot the animal several times with a 9mm handgun, and the bear disappeared. . . . .
Concealed handgun permits in Wisconsin now exceed 100,000

Concealed handgun permits in Wisconsin now exceed 100,000

That was certainly fast.  From the Greenbay Press Gazette:

. . . Van Hollen, speaking inside the Department of Justice room where the permits are printed, said no problems have been reported since the law went into effect six months ago, refuting arguments made by “doomsday people” concerned about legalizing the carrying of concealed weapons.
Van Hollen, who holds the first permit issued by the state, said he firmly believes that people ought to be able to defend themselves and the law empowers law-abiding citizens. But he said it may be impossible to know whether the new law has deterred any crimes from occurring.
“I don’t know that it’s safer and I don’t know that it’s less safe,” he said when asked about the impact of the law that went into effect in November. . . .
The agency had estimated 125,000 permits would be issued in the first year, but after it was issuing the 100,000th one Friday. . . .

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