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sailingaway
04-04-2013, 03:43 PM
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A Utah teacher is shown how to handle a handgun by instructor Clint Simon at a concealed-weapons training class …


Despite a major push from the White House, more states have cut back on gun regulations rather than pass gun-control reforms in the wake of the mass shootings in Newtown, Conn., The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

Five states—New York, Colorado, Mississippi, Utah and Wyoming—have enacted seven new laws tightening restrictions on guns since Dec. 14, when a gunman shot 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School before turning the weapon on himself. A sixth state, Connecticut, passed the toughest gun laws in the nation this week, banning some types of semi-automatic weapons and requiring all gun buyers to undergo background checks before purchases. (Gov. Dan Malloy is expected to sign the bill into law on Thursday.)

Meanwhile, legislators in 10 states pushed through 17 new laws that broaden gun rights. One such law, in Arkansas, allows staff and faculty to carry concealed weapons on university campuses. Utah lawmakers, meanwhile, passed a law to allow people prohibited from buying weapons for mental health reasons to petition the state to be able to purchase a gun.
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Anti Federalist
04-04-2013, 03:53 PM
MS?

Hmmm...who is Californicating them?

NY/NJ?

Or Ill-annoy?

madengr
04-04-2013, 07:25 PM
Here in KS we have several pro gun laws working through the legislature.

RonPaulFanInGA
04-04-2013, 08:17 PM
What were the laws passed in Mississippi, Utah and Wyoming? Never head that, and seems odd those states, some of the most conservative in the country, would join NY, CT and MD in restricting peoples' freedoms over the actions of some lunatic in Connecticut.

Christian Liberty
04-04-2013, 08:29 PM
Why the crap did Wyoming, Mississippi, and Utah do this? I mean, we know New York is ruled by Fuhrer Cuomo and Fuhrer Doomberg, and Colorado is kind of a purple state but why the CRAP is the South doing this?

BAllen
04-04-2013, 08:40 PM
Why the crap did Wyoming, Mississippi, and Utah do this? I mean, we know New York is ruled by Fuhrer Cuomo and Fuhrer Doomberg, and Colorado is kind of a purple state but why the CRAP is the South doing this?

Not all of the South. Our gun rights improved in NC. Full castle doctrine, and freedom to carry in state parks.

supermario21
04-04-2013, 08:46 PM
Ohio is improving too. It's interesting to see the polarization. Blue states are going full-bore police state and red states are opening things up.