{"id":993,"date":"2010-09-29T12:04:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T16:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=993"},"modified":"2010-09-29T12:04:29","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T16:04:29","slug":"more-reflections-on-gun-owners-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/more-reflections-on-gun-owners-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"MORE REFLECTIONS ON GUN OWNERS\u2019 RIGHTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was still resonating with the good vibes from the Gun Rights Policy Conference when I ran across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2010\/09\/nj_senator_pushes_law_allowing.html\" target=\"_blank\">this story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm\u2026$500 per year to carry concealed. Can we say \u201cunduly burdensome\u201d? Can we say \u201cpoll tax\u201d? Can we say \u201c(expletive deleted) outrageous\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, if I lived there in New Jersey, I would pay $1.37 per day for the ability to protect myself and my loved ones. Once the precedent for \u201cshall issue\u201d was set at the ridiculously high price, lowering the tariff could be pursued through the courts or through the legislature. Blog readers, your thoughts?<\/p>\n<p>This sort of thing is the province of our grassroots gun organizations at the state level, which are doing a truly great job. Consider Illinois, one of the last two states where there is no provision at law for honest, law-abiding citizens to get that piece of paper that allows them to carry a loaded, concealed handgun when they\u2019re out and about. For many years, Illinois gun owners considered that situation to be hopeless. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isra.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Illinois State Rifle Association <\/a>head Rich Pearson reports that the state sheriffs\u2019 association is now supporting concealed carry, and the formerly oppositional state chiefs\u2019 association and state police have now gone neutral on the issue. Hopes are high\u2026and the hard work of ISRA and its many members have made that hope reasonable.<\/p>\n<p>In beleaguered California, the CalGuns Foundation is supporting lots of proactive legislation. Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Department is reportedly going to a \u201cshall-issue\u201d carry permit policy. That\u2019s nothing less than a great leap forward. The state-of-the-state speech given by Gene Hoffman from CalGuns was encouraging to all of us.<\/p>\n<p>Montana Shooting Sports Association, Gun Owners of New Hampshire, Unified Sportsmen of Florida, Maryland Shall Issue, the Gun Owners Action League in Massachusetts, and many more are doing some heavy lifting \u201con the ground\u201d at the state level. Your own state\u2019s grassroots gun owners\u2019 organizations deserve your support. They\u2019re doing important work<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was still resonating with the good vibes from the Gun Rights Policy Conference when I ran across this story. Hmmm\u2026$500 per year to carry concealed. Can we say \u201cunduly burdensome\u201d? Can we say \u201cpoll tax\u201d? Can we say \u201c(expletive deleted) outrageous\u201d? On the other hand, if I lived there in New Jersey, I would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30,68,71,81,83,121],"class_list":{"0":"post-993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearm-owners-civil-rights","8":"tag-calguns","9":"tag-grpc","10":"tag-gun-rights-policy-conference","11":"tag-illinois-state-rifle-association","12":"tag-isra","13":"tag-saf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}