Right to Carry Laws
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Shall Issue
State law that provides that, upon completion of specified requirements, a law-abiding person shall be granted a permit to carry concealed firearms. -
Discretionary/Reasonable Issue
State law that provides the government with some discretion over the issuance of a carry permit, but which generally grants permits to all law-abiding persons. -
No Permit Required
State law that allows individuals to carry concealed firearms for lawful purposes without a permit. -
Rights Restricted - Very Limited Issue
State law that gives the government complete discretion over the issuance of carry permits, and where that discretion is normally used to deny the issuance of permits. -
Rights Infringed/Non-Issue
State law that completely prohibits carrying firearms for personal protection outside the home or place of business.
Armed Citizen IN THE SPOTLIGHT
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Sunday, November 1, 1981
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Sunday, November 1, 1981
Mary Markham was willing to hand over cash to two criminals who burst into her Mount Clemens, Mich., ...
Sunday, November 1, 1981
A Union Township, Ohio, housebreaker got a humiliating shock as he tried to exit the home of 14-year-old ...
Sunday, November 1, 1981
Thelma Kouba, 85, suffering from shock, had to be removed from her home by ambulance, after a neighbor's ...
Thursday, October 1, 1981
Lester Frierson was in the rear of the North St. Louis, Mo., restaurant he manages when he noticed ...
Thursday, October 1, 1981
A pair of youthful burglars were loading their car full of frozen meat from Arvil and Geri Hodges' ...
Thursday, October 1, 1981
After her Little Rock, Ark., home had been repeatedly burglarized, a policeman suggested to Wilma Fay Donley that ...
Thursday, October 1, 1981
Nita Clemons, 72, of Amarillo, Tex., awoke to find an assailant reaching through her bedroom window to pull ...
Thursday, October 1, 1981
A husband-and-wife robbery team broke into Jessie Hudson's Lebanon, Mo., home, and the male criminal assaulted the 68-year-old ...
Thursday, October 1, 1981
A pair of hoodlums invaded William Baney's Salem, Oreg., home and demanded loot. As one criminal held a ...