Self defense is important because it’s your legal right and your life or someone else’s could depend on it. In a moment of crisis, if you or someone you care about is attacked, knowing where you stand legally— and being prepared to defend yourself or others— could make a world of difference in the outcome of many people’s lives.
That way you can make a threat forward contingency plan to use a legally owned firearm that no jurisdiction you’re in will be unhappy about you having for any reason, to defend yourself or others.
With proper knowledge, practice, and preparation, you will rest assured that you can defend yourself, your loved ones, your property, or innocent bystanders from a violent attack.
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Most importantly, if you find yourself in such an unfortunate situation, you want to know the extent to which the law supports you. Using a firearm increases your chances of surviving a violent assault, and decreases your chances of sustaining an injury from it over using another means of self defense or not trying to defend yourself.
The Worst Self Defense Legal Scenario
The worst scenario is you legitimately and responsibly use a firearm to defend yourself or others in fear for your life from a violent attack, and end up in trouble with your state or city.
Even though you used it for your self defense from a violent aggressor, you face legal charges for using the firearm or even just owning it in violation of state or local statutes (such as prohibitions or without a permit).
That’s an advantage of living in one of the best states for self defense.
You and your family can feel and be more secure to defend yourself if you need to.
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The best states for self defense also tend to have lower rates of violent crime than states with more restrictive gun laws and judges with court systems and jurisprudence that are more hostile to self defense victims who use a firearm to defend themselves.
Firearms And Self Defense Reduce Injuries And Save Lives
According to a Rand Corporation Gun Policy in America brief, one of the earliest studies (1997) into the effect of shall-issue laws on violent crime found that, “states implementing shall-issue laws saw significant decreases in rates of violent crime, murder, and assault.” Requiring state agencies to issue gun permits apparently resulted as a deterrent to violent crime. (source)
The brief says follow up studies concluded the findings did not prove cause and effect between the more self-defense friendly gun laws and lower crime, just a correlation. But it’s a strong correlation and an obvious one to draw. And correlations are what regulators go off of with cancer and tobacco to require tobacco companies to label packages with warnings.
As time has gone on, gun laws in the United States have become less restrictive over the last generation.
Recent courts have been strong adherents to strict constructionism and interestingly, pro-Second Amendment judicial activism when making rulings on firearms and self defense cases.
While gun ownership increased as a result, violent crime rates went down. In fact, according to FBI federal and federalized crime data from state agencies, violent crime in the United States decreased by 49% from 1993 to 2019. There was an enormous 68% decline in aggravated assault. All of this happened as the U.S. courts beefed up the Second Amendment.
Best States For Self-Defense:
In the event that you are attacked in a place you legally have a right to be, in 38 states you have no duty to retreat, and can stand your ground to defend yourself from your attacker.
In 30 of these states this policy is in effect by law, with statutes reading, “that there is no duty to retreat from an attacker in any place in which one is lawfully present.”
The other eight states have stand your ground laws in effect through case law or jury instructions in self defense cases. Washington D.C. and Wisconsin follow a “middle ground” approach with jury discretion.
Alaska
Alaska does not require permits, registration, background checks, finger printing, or waiting periods for purchasing firearms. The Last Frontier also allows open handgun carry without a license. So Alaska is a Constitutional Carry state. The state also preempts local laws that restrict any resident’s gun rights.
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The state is number one for self defense because Alaska lets residents prep to defend against militia grade assaults. However, It’s illegal to own a machine gun in Alaska unless you can show it is legally registered in compliance with federal laws. Residents also have no barrel length requirements for shotguns or rifles.
Arizona
Arizona allows concealed carry of firearms with no permit, no gun registration, and no gun owner’s license. The Copper State has no registry requirements and no restrictions on NFA-listed firearms.
There are also no magazine capacity restrictions in the state. Arizona has a Castle Law and Stand Your Ground law with no duty to retreat.
Wyoming
Wyoming is another no permit state for concealed carry of handguns. Firearms do not have to be registered in the Equality State. Neither does Wyoming require a gun owner’s license or open carry permit. Wyoming is a Constitutional Carry state. The state government preempts local gun laws that are more restrictive of residents.
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With no NFA regulations or magazine restrictions, Wyoming is a paradise for prepper privacy. No stand your ground law, but stand your ground principles prevail in Wyoming in self defense cases where they apply.
Oklahoma
Oklahoma is an open carry and concealed carry state without permits, licenses, or registration requirements. The Sooner State also preempts local restrictions. Oklahoma doesn’t ban high-capacity magazines or automatic weapons.
Oklahoma upholds Castle Doctrine and Stand Your Ground law. Its self defense laws specifically protect the use of deadly force against a violent attacker there even in the workplace or personal vehicle. So the state’s law backs up preppers who find themselves in a desperate situation, but prepared to survive it safely.
Kentucky
Kentucky allows concealed and open handgun carry, but only open carry of long guns. There are no permit, license, or registry requirements.
Kentucky has no magazine capacity or NFA weapons restrictions. The commonwealth has a Castle Doctrine with no duty to retreat.
Its Stand Your Ground law passed in 2006. The law protects the use of deadly force for self defense in the vehicle and anywhere the resident has the right to be.
Kansas
Kansas has no gun permit, firearm registration, or gun owner’s license. The Sunflower State permits concealed and open carry of handguns for self defense. The state government does not allow local municipalities to restrict gun ownership or use.
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Kansas does not have a magazine capacity limit or NFA weapons restrictions. The state has Castle and Stand Your Ground laws with no duty to retreat. Deadly force may be used if believed necessary for self defense.
Missouri
Missouri does not license or register firearms, and has no gun permits. It allows open and concealed carry of handguns.
The state preempts local gun ordinances to protect gun owners’ second amendment rights for handguns and long guns.
The Show Me state has no restrictions on magazines, and no bans on NFA weapons. The state has Castle and Stand Your Ground laws with no duty to retreat in your home or vehicle.
South Dakota
There are no gun permits, licenses, or registrations in South Dakota. Handguns can be carried open or concealed. The state preempts local gun rules. South Dakota does not restrict NFA weapons or magazine capacity.
The Mt. Rushmore State has no Stand Your Ground law, but is a stand your ground state in the courts. It has a Castle Law with no duty to retreat anywhere you have the right to be.
West Virginia
West Virginia requires no gun permits, registrations, or licenses. It preempts local restrictions. The Mountain State allows open and concealed carry of handguns.
West Virginia has no bans on magazine capacity, but requires a license to own automatic weapons.
The state has a Castle law and Stand Your Ground law that allow deadly force for self-defense and to prevent trespassers.
Tennessee
Tennessee has no permits, registrations, or licenses for firearms. It preempts local restrictions. The state allows open and concealed carry of handguns. The Volunteer State has no bans on NFA weapons or magazine capacity. Tennessee has Castle and Stand Your Ground laws when there is a reasonable belief in the immediate threat of death or serious injury. There’s no duty to retreat where ever you have the right to be.
The right and ability to correctly and safely defend yourself may not seem important, but if it ever does it will be of paramount importance. And if you should ever survive a violent attack, the next most important priority for you will be defending your actions to the authorities, possibly in a court of law.
In these times of unrest, there are so many Americans moving states to find a place to live that suits them, their families, their professions, their finances, their interests, and their values best.
If prepping for self-defense is important to you, hopefully this article was a good stop for you as you gather information about what states align best with your priorities.
Lol what atf agent wrote this garbage. Your 4473 is registration and it’s a background check. Alaska isn’t immune nor is any other state. Yeah nfa laws don’t exist in Alaska too .
This article is just garbage and serves nothing but ways to be arrested from the fed
Thanks for the insight. It is important for everyone to question what they read and make sure they do their due-diligence research before making any decision that may be influenced by this or any article.
My guess is that gun control laws are going to more and more prevalent in the near future. I anticipate a lot of high profile cases where the perp is young, irresponsible, and probably not natural born to the U.S. . Everyone considering self defense should review their respective state laws and should definitely NOT rely on articles such as this to define their respective self-defense strategies. Sometimes, retreat is the better option if you want to live to see another day. In some cases, even if you are just and right, the law or a jury may see it another way and then you’ll be stuck fending off prison attacks with a shive.
Retreat?
Because someone said a men thing?
Because someone is threatening your loved one with a weapon?
Because the jury is already jaded by negative publicity?
I highly recommend you look at the constitution and the God laws! What you buy a lic. for you give up your God given rights!
4473 is required in every state for a purchase from an FFL, but not from a private person.
Yes that article. They left off Texas.
Texas is going purple and the gun laws are not even as good as people think they where…. It took until a few years ago to get open carry laws passed.
Texas is most definitely not going purple. Austin is turning purple no doubly, but Austin is but one city in Texas, and should not be used to label the state as whole. If you recall the last midterm elections, Beto O’rourke failed miserable with his ‘blue wave’ movement.
big cities control your state
Last election i watched Texas go blue….. until the last few mins of the election
Lets face it you’re going purple like every other state because of the border issues and people fleeing…. calif.
And Utah.
Lmao it does not even say anything about Mississippi and it is a second admendment state and has stand your ground laws. All you have to be is in fear of your life.
This covers state law, not federal law.
3 problems come into play here.
1. SCOTUS has already ruled that no Prerequisite can be required to exercise a right on more than one occasion, so all 2A restrictions are also unconstitutional and it clearly states the right of the people to keep & bear arms. but it is interpreted differently according to political opinions also a clear violation.
2. The states have not nullified federal unconstitutional laws,
or an opinion by judges, both of which are needed if we are to reclaim our freedoms taken away by the federal government.
3. Going back to common law courts is also needed, these are real courts not the corporate courts of today and going back to common law principles that if the person is not hurt and property is not hurt then there is no crime.
I live in Australia, and would like to point out that what is legal in America cannot be applied to Australia. Australia’s entire legal system is based on different principles and assumptions.
Here you need to do your research, and you probably should never point a gun at anyone, ever. If you have one you’d better make sure it’s legal, registered, locked up, and you are licensed. Or you are so in the sh.it if something happens.
I won’t get into a guns good/bad or ‘ours is better than yours’ here, but wanted an early comment to point out that this website has an American centric approach and what is legal in America very much isn’t in other parts of the world.
By having a different approach in Australia we have different challenges. There’s a lot less accidental deaths/woundings, a lot more negotiation and so forth. The entire psyche of a nation can be held one way or another by the risks associated with different approaches and this can change how people behave.
In Australia the chances of you coming face to face with someone with a gun is very very low (unless you associate with people who use guns illegally, and in a manner that makes them want to prove their power vs yours). We have plenty of meth heads (tweakers?) and so forth though, so having good home security is usually the best thing. By the time you are fighting face to face with someone in your home you are already losing. There is no winner in a self defence case, it’s just who lost the most. So we try to prevent ever needing to go down this path. But if we do, we use far less lethal methods usually, and our experience as a society isn’t worse for it.
Respectfully some of us looking at your COVID “Health Camps” in the land down under *might* disagree. Watching your police apply the Billy club to folks that don’t want to be vaxxed seems a bit forceful.
Extremism of any flavor isn’t a good thing. Guns YEAH or Guns Hiss is both wrong.
It’s going to be very interesting to see how future history is written in response to government decisions re COVID.
The closing of borders (and subsequent quarantine) Australia did were generally applauded by the wider medical community, and very definitely kept the Australian population ‘safe’ until medical knowledge was able to allow opening. Was it too long? Too draconian? Too bluntly applied? Did it work? Did it save the Australian economy, or harm it? Was the cost of this vs the cost of free roaming Australians living their normal life worth it? The quarantine ‘camps’ were eventually largely sorted out, it was the hotels you didn’t want to be in, they were shitty. A very large number of people were able to quarantine at home, if they were organised.
The vaccines are another thing though. The forced vaccination of the masses (ok, so a gun wasn’t held to your head, but your job was on the line, and with it your ability to service your mortgage) wasn’t well liked, but it served it’s purpose and gave the entire community, which had incredibly little herd immunity, some hope of beating it. It stopped a huge number of hospitalisations, and effectively stopped the health system being over run. More than half of the population of Australia has had COVID now, with relatively few deaths, thanks to the vaccines. However the vaccine roll out, the way it was forced down throats, and the lack of visibility of health outcomes has been awful. ScoMo lost his job over it, and the government flipped factions, the rise of the independents and disenfranchised voters has been heard and it’s going to be interesting times in the years to come (hopefully!). They’ve dropped the vaccine mandates now except if you work closely with vulnerable people (ie in a nursing home), and these sorts of positions have always had a vaccine mandate for flu and Hep B etc.
To top it off I live in the most draconian state of all of Australia. It was pretty good. I could sit out on the side walk cafes and drink my latte, knowing I was safe… all the way up until early this year, when it finally ‘got out’ in Perth. We had a few lock downs along the way, but nothing impossible to live with. We had the pubs and clubs shut occasionally but there was always booze, coffee and beaches. Life didn’t stop in Western Australia, and we kept the national economy going. Australia has one of the highest quality of living standards, and WA over the last few years has been probably the best in the country. Health care here is a bit shit – under funded hospitals, but lifestyle wise it’s fab.
lot of respect for the original pioneers that actually colonized your country >>>
but from a country that actually fought for its independence to a country that was “granted” it >>> there’s more than just the current laws that separate us – New Zeeland isn’t the only country “down under” with a huge sheep population …..
Your country was disarmed and left to all the violent crimes that soared after the gov took it all from you.
Don’t worry once we lose the Midterm’s the AWB will happen here and we will be faced with the same issues.
I rather be defending my house with a Pistol Ar then you begging on your knees that the tweaker doesn’t killl you
Well good for you… You are not America.
OK sunshine, good for you and happy dreams down under. Hope you stay there. Our nation started with guns and plenty of them, which without would never have happened. This piece was never meant to be global, so keep your Aussie is so wonderful attitude. We’ll deal with it our way.
@Sandgropee…Thanks, captain obvious. I believe it’s safe to say that the article is written for Americans because it ONLY lists U.S. States.
My understanding is that private gun ownership in AU is not allowed. Of late, I’ve only seen Aussies get quarantined and locked up for their vaccination status and forced by law enforcement to comply, in their home I might add, with civil controls that are overly invasive. As we now see, those civil controls were extremely damaging, and the vaccinations even more-so, so I’d say the U.S. model offers more stability. The shortfall with the U.S. model is a lack of enforcement, education, and general civic responsibly associated with firearms. This I believe has been a dispersed and concerted effort by various entities in order to produce the desired effects (more gun violence) that will enable the disarming of the general public. My understanding is that approximately 40% of all of the small arms in the world are currently in the possession of private citizens in the US. This includes all military firearms as well.
It was interesting to see all the Japanese, New Zealanders, and Australians in Guam hanging out at the range.
Private gun ownership is allowed, you only need to qualify for a licence, have a secure gun safe to store the gun in, and obviously part of qualifying for the licence includes police checks to make sure you aren’t a violent criminal. (Other qualifications include a reason “sport, recreation, hunting, pest control” etc are all valid reasons, and membership of a gun club is generally the easiest way to get across the line.). Without a gun licence you can book into a gun club and rent/shoot their guns at will on their range.
Aussies weren’t quarantined if they weren’t vaccinated. Vaccination and quarantine were never co-dependent. They were quarantined if they were a close contact, came in from overseas/interstate where COVID was rampant, or actually had it. Vaccination played no part in whether you had to quarantine, only the likelihood you might be brewing it.
The people locked up with regards to vaccination weren’t locked up for not being vaccinated, they were locked up for civil disobedience crimes like closing down major roads and bridges in protest – for protesting in very disruptive ways. Their protests were about the vaccine mandates, and they had a lot of sympathy. Don’t assume that the government was acting in the people’s preference there, and an election since has tossed the government out.
It’s interesting that there’s such a huge number of guns in America. I had no idea the volume was so high. I wonder if that’s good, and whether good/bad is the only way to view this or a third option might be possible.
Although I agree with you mostly you have a common falsity in your comment. There is, and as far as I can tell never will be any gun violence in America or any other place. The fact is guns can not be violent. People who are violent may use guns. But taking away guns will not make these persons less violent. Remember the largest mass murder in our country had no gun involved.
The title of the article is “Best States for self defense, do you live in one of them.” Australia began as a prison colony for the British Commonwealth. You would not understand personal sovereignty if it bit you. If everyone were like you, asking permission to own and carry personal arms, there would be more tyranny and more crime. People do not need a permit to exercise a right. What needs to happen is all of the BAR attorneys on the planet need to be rounded up and shot for treason and warring against national governments worldwide. Another thing that should happen is for Inner City London to be burned to the ground using the Lord Mayor as the kindling. Fat burns well. Piracy has been outlawed for over a century and that is exactly what used to happen when pirates looted the people.
The only good parasite is a dead parasite. Lawyers, politicians, Hospital administrators and corrupt police commissioners (as in, they get commissions of arrests and clogging up the foreign court systems with frivolous legal BS trying to force people to believe that they need permission for anything from their employees. They all need to be shoved back in their boxes permanently and made examples of publicly. Gibbet them. Hang them. Keel Haul them. Behead them.
Glad that wretched QEII is dead. That whole family is nothing but imposters and fake royalty.
I’m sorry but why do we care about what you do in Australia? This article is about the best states for self defense in the U.S.A. Your comment is completely irrelevant and laughable at best.
There exist plenty of ‘folk’ disagreeing with your assessment of human nature, whether down unda or elsewhere.
Aussie’s are mere subjects (aka SLAVES).
How many senior citizens, women, and disabled can defend against a strapping young criminal?
Those folks certainly need suitable firearms.
From what I read, your non firearm crime skyrocketed after your gun bans.
Yes this site is slanted toward US people.
Other countries lie to their people and enslave them.
Here is one of our greatest founders quotes:
“Firearms stand next in importance to the constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence … from the hour the Pilgrims landed to the present day, events, occurrences and tendencies prove that to ensure peace security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable … the very atmosphere of firearms anywhere restrains evil interference — they deserve a place of honor with all that’s good.”
George Washington
And another:
“I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.”
– Thomas Jefferson
Seems Aussie’s and many others on the planet are peaceful SLAVES.
Did you not see the title, “best states for self defense”???
Australia has returned to its roots….a penal colony.
Florida was considered to be FULLY progressive with their gun laws, enforcement and court judgments – so everyone thought including a guy named Zimmerman …
He was initially free & clear of charges for protecting himself after getting attacked questioning a potential property trespasser >>> until two Sanford PD officers believed that the justice system should include street justice of riot & looting threats on society ….
that was one of the very first bouts of the court justice and gun law enforcement we have across the country currently >>>> kill the wrong person and the hangman’s noose comes out of the local DA’s closet before the crime scene tape goes up …..
and – with the current administration – if the outcome doesn’t please the streets – there’s always the looooong reach of the corrupted FBI and the DOJ …
Seems most gun control laws are squarely aimed at white people.
Ya know, the TAXPAYERS?
Those with the lease desire to use guns to commit crimes? Or any crime.
It is simple demographics. Whiter states have less violent crime and usually better self-defense laws except in the NorthEast USA, where all the Liberals live.
Never heard of Indiana? This list sucks.
you can thank Regan for the jacked up prices in Machine guns….
the Fudd Regan is just an anti gun dumbass like most republicans .
Caster Troy, Reagan was not POTUS in 1934 when the NFA was forced upon us and 1968 when it was modified to take even more of our freedoms.
sigh… republicans and the lack of history on the second amendment ….
1986 Regan signed in the Huges Amendment….. which sealed the door on Machine gun NFA items. made the law you couldn’t buy a machine gun made after 1986…… jacked the prices up on everything
He also supported the assult weapons ban and wrote letters on it.
His time as Gov of Calif he banned open carry because……. (get this he didn’t like blacks having guns and protesting )
Castor check this list too out
In December 2018, we reported on how Trump announced the Bump stock ban; The sellouts at the NRA helped him push it through. 520,000 Americans were told they had 90 days to turn in their bump stocks or destroy them under the Trump rule.
On March 23, 2018, Trump signed into law an appropriations act that included the Fix NICS Act, a gun control measure that helped violate veterans and other Americans 2nd amendment rights. According to the Gun Owners of America, “The dirty little secret of NICS is that hundreds of thousands of people in the database are law-abiding Americans who did nothing wrong, unless you count ‘service to your country’ and/or ‘speeding.’
In December if 2018, the GOA put our a press release condemning President Donald Trump’s inclusion Gun Confiscation Orders (sugar-coated as “red-flag laws”) in his Commission on School Safety Report. GOA’s executive director, Erich Pratt responded, “Sadly, the President is continuing with his ‘take the guns first, due process later’ rhetoric. The Gun Confiscation Orders are a method to confiscate one’s guns — without due process.
In June 2019, he followed up the attacks on the 2nd amendment by nominating Anti-Gun Advocate Chuck Canterbury to Head the ATF. Yet again the Q crowd yelled, it’s 4D chess man, just wait!
In August of 2019, Trump again called for expanding gun control and expanding Red Flag Laws. “We must make sure that those judged to pose a grave risk to public safety do not have access to firearms,” Trump said. “And if they do, those firearms can be taken through rapid due process. That is why I have called for ‘red flag’ laws, also known as Extreme Risk Protection Orders.”
In September 2019, Trump’s DOJ Ordered Apple & Google To Hand Over Names of Users Of Gun Scope App.
I am sorry you feel your prejudice against the NorthEast is justified. I and all of our friends are fighting with everything we can to turn our blue states into red states. We just heard Charlie Ward exclaiming to Kash Patel that he found the Batavia, NY Reawakening America event so encouraging and exciting, because he didn’t expect to find there were SO MANY THOUSANDS of Conservatives in Central and Western, NY!! The problem with NY State is the troublemaker-luciferians in NYC, and we all know it! I have heard upstaters calling for NYC and Long Island to be separated from the rest of us who are saner up North for probably 50+ years!! If only…the stupid NYS Assembly continually makes us pay for the NYC money problems and druggie issues. God Bless Them that they are now receiving busloads of illegal aliens! I hope they appreciate their come-upins! The rest of us in this state are sick to death of the nonsense coming out of Albany, of the Cuomo-Hockle “twins”, though to tell the truth, Kathy is worse than Cuomo….if you can even believe that!! Good riddens to them all. If things don’t change within 2-3 years, we’re leaving our beautiful, countrified 5-acre homestead and moving south to get away from the NYS legal insanities and restrictions foisted upon us, plus the TAXES!! OH, MY GOSH!! Are you KIDDING ME?
Let’s not forget the west coast state of California. Very strict gun regulations and laws. Then there are the, “no more sales of gas autos” and ban on diesel fuel now. Oh, but since you are using more electricity we need to up the price for your usage. But wait, the state can’t handle the extra power usage so people need to stop charging their electric autos, stop using your A/C and electric heaters,(in winter). There’s a ban on using your fire places too. California makes no sense. I left that state and I was born there !!!
Wyoming does have restrictions on conceal carry. You do need a permit. Open carry- no permit required. Federal government requires all gun purchases to be recorded by the DOJ in all states. Form 4473 is required for every gun purchase or transfer. It’s a background check, only takes 15 minutes, and your purchase is then registered. I know because I did my research and made my “cash and carry” purchase 2 months ago. Yes, I did ask a lot of questions.
The gun laws and requirements in Cali sound similar to those in Aus. But it does no good to keep it locked up if you have a home invasion.
The other sad part of Cali and many other states is it is OK to rob a store. As long as the theft is under 1000. dollars you can walk out with it and nothing will happen. Our country is heading down hill fast. We need changes and we need total transparency for our elections as well as from all the candidates. Right now there is so much poop throwing no one can see who is who.
I don’t believe these articles are meant to be, all-encompassing and 100% factual. I’m sure there’s an attempt made to be factual, but it’s not meant to be a replacement for sound legal advice via an Attorney. I’m thinking it’s meant for information purposes only as a conversation starter and not a bitch session. If you use any article as legal guidance, you’re probably not smart enough to own a firearm.
It doesn’t matter where I live. If someone breaks into my house while I am there with my family, my assumption is that he intends on doing us serious harm. After I double tap him in the chest with my 45 and the coroner wheels him out of my house feet first, my only comment to the investigating officers will be, “He said he had a gun and was going to kill us. I took him at his word. I can’t help it that he was a liar as well as a thief.”
This article lacks in every truth about gun control. You could of been honest & said , ” If You Live in a Blue Democratic State , you are probably screwed!!!” I live in Indiana & we’re a constitutional carry state . Owning a fully automatic machine gun isn’t an advantage when civilization finally breaks down . When chaos rules the land hopefully your local government & neighbors will have your back.
oh a machine gun is very useful….. for a lot reasons .. (the loud heavy sounds is very scary to people) You sound like a like a you have a lot more people. Plus It can be useful for keeping movements down and heads down. Allowing your side to either flank them or get in position to take better aimed shots.
Absolutely. I scored 198/200 (100-1200 meters) with an M-60. The point is, an automatic weapon is most decidedly an advantage in trained hands. Even Fer-Fal has mentioned that in his blog. A game changer for an individual or small unit or group. Yes, I have hands on experience.
Thank God I don’t live in the USA. I live in the Adirondack Park. A totally different world of a mere 130,000 people scattered across the Park. WE WILL SURVIVE!
GOOD FOR YOU, RICK! I grew up at the base of the Hill going up to Brantingham Lake, near Glenfied, NY, and I know what you’re talking about! Within less than 1/2 mile on the road that leads uphill to Brantingham, there is a large sign reading “Entering Adirondack Park”, and I grew up just around the corner from there! There are still downhome people who live in that part of NYS, as well. Too bad that most people today think that ALL OF NEW YORKERS are crazy lefties!! Oh my gosh! When I lived in Minnesota years ago, my co-workers and I were watching the U.S. hockey team of early 1980s Olympics win the gold. When the T.V. station panned the mountains and the pine-filled countryside, they all gasped. They continued over and over to try to tell me that where I grew up in Greig, NY, was part of the giant megalopolus that ran from Boston to D.C. without any countryside in sight! I just laughed and told them they were idiots, cause the county I grew up in had LOTS more cows than people!!! They just didn’t believe it. SO MUCH PREJUDICE!! Walk a mile in my shoes, buddy!!
Don’t bet on it. There’s plenty of Leo and correctional officers who goosestep to hochuls unconstitutional laws. I live inside the blue line as well and I trust no law enforcement. Period.
“Live Free or Die” state of NH ain’t too bad either… Considering we have lunatic mASSholes just south…
Don’t I know that. I’m from NH as well but now living in AR.
When you pop a cap on a criminal anywhere in the US, your entire fate and future lies completely in the hands of your local DA and Sheriff regardless of whether he deserved it or not. You best make damn sure you vote the right ones in or else you will find yourself locked up for the rest of your life on bogus charges proven by what ever the Judge decides to call evidence at the time. I trust no one!!!
Automatic weapons are a waste of ammo. Better one aimed round than one hundred to spray and pray.
you do understand fully auto is “aimed…. ” you have no idea about machine guns and your NRA fudd flat range training is showing.
It really depends on who’s using it. Trained vs. untrained. Machine guns are very, very accurate in the right hands.
Don’t know why every time these lists of good states for guns is made North Carolina gets left off.
North Carolina has open carry no permit or license needed.
North Carolina is a shall issue state for concealed carry permits.
North Carolina has expanded castle doctrine laws so anywhere you are at that you have a legal right to be you can shoot in self defense and stand your ground.
Lmao it does not even say anything about Mississippi and it is a second admendment state and has stand your ground laws.
YOU HAD BEST CHECK THE LAWS IN YOUR CITY and STATE FOR YOURSELF. Do not take anyone elses word for it.
This article is misleading in several ways.
Another thing is this.
Ask yourself had you rather be judged by 12 or carried by 6?
For myself I do not care where I am if my family or my self is threatened I will shoot first and worry about the consequences later.
At least you will still be alive to worry about it.
“We must make sure that those judged to pose a grave risk to public safety do not have access to firearms,”
Easy solution – prove it in court with no BS on evidence being hidden or banned by the prosecution, and if guilty, keep them locked up until they can be trusted with guns.
“To prohibit a citizen from wearing or carrying a war arm . . . is an unwarranted restriction upon the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of constitutional privilege.”
Wilson v. State, 33 Ark. 557, at 560, 34 Am. Rep. 52, at 54 (1878)
Iowa is also a Constitutional Carry state. Notice that wasn’t on your list either.
I’m in a rotten mood right now, so I won’t say anymore. Nor will I post any comments above, even though it might help my pissy mood…..
I guess you could try Midol for your pissy mood.
Viva Arizona! I read an interesting thing in Strange Sounds, a Dr. Singh who pointed out liberals want us weak, dependent on them for everything and so on. Someone wrote that why the US and Australia are so not-European is because Europe sent it’s ‘yeast’ to us. For centuries, they arrested and threw out the very sort of people needed to be a nation of individuals. As a baron in Bonaparte V kingdom noted, castrate the unmanageable bulls and in future generations they became as docile as cows.
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The article left off Ohio.
In Ohio we have Open and Concealed Carry. Castle Doctrine and Stand Your Ground with No Obligation To Retreat. FYI
You also left off Idaho. Open or concealed carry, no permits for person to person sales. Just be aware of the type of person you are selling too. Usually the bad selling to the bad. No tweekers.
The Aussie doesn’t sound like he regrets loosing the freedom of gun ownership without permission from the privileged. Another version of what is for dinner.
The G.O.A. is more pro-gun than the NRA. Donations to them are good. Unfortunately, money talks to the politicians.
You didn’t mention Georgia ? What are the restrictions in Georgia ?