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TN scored 8/100 on the Brady Campaign’s state rankings, which are generally an inverse measure of freedom. Arizona got a 0. Damn, Tennessee, we have a goal.
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May 5th, 2011 at 8:59 am
You had a goal last year! Utah was all alone with our 0. Fortunately, we’re now joined by 2 other freedom loving states. Was lonely at the bottom.
May 5th, 2011 at 9:01 am
After looking at their Metric, I realized that 80% of their bitches are covered by Federal Law. The other 20% is covered by Insanity. All this tells me is where Political and Legal pressure needs to be applied on the individual State Level. Kalifornia, however, needs to be Quarantined from the rest of the country.
May 5th, 2011 at 9:41 am
Go Oklahoma! (2%)
May 5th, 2011 at 10:00 am
Oh my…my state’s number 2!! I’ll take that. 🙂 Sorry, TN… 😉
May 5th, 2011 at 10:00 am
I LOVE Arizona!
May 5th, 2011 at 10:31 am
Texas is a 6
May 5th, 2011 at 12:18 pm
Aaron’s right, but maybe not for long. We got 2 points each for campus carry and parking lots. We’ll likely lose those points after this legislative session, leaving us a lonely 2 points for next year:(
Also, there’s no mention of open carry. How the @#$! can you have blood in the streets without it? Gotta be worth something…
tweaker
May 5th, 2011 at 12:21 pm
Wow… we got 8% as well, even without having CCW! I guess with it right on the horizon and OC becoming more and more common, we’ve got them scared.
May 5th, 2011 at 3:05 pm
Indiana: we are improving, only a 4 this year and Indiana passed preemption with teeth (Gary does not get a pass and ancient, goofy ordinances like Speedway go to the dust bin), improved parking lot bill and range transport (without license).
Look at their goofy rating system though. Indiana gets 2 for a feckless retail “license” to sell handguns, which is nothing more than a tax to fund our state police, and a 2 as colleges and universities are not required to allow students to carry. As a non-student, if you use the library at one of the law schools or see a concert at Purdue, no problem.
If the BCTPGO (Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership) is giving points for goofy stuff like this, then they are losing badly and seeking any means necessary to cover the severity of its loss.
May 5th, 2011 at 3:56 pm
Weird.
Michigan gets 25 points.
However, they apparently confused “Permit to purchase/own” with “permit to carry”. (Safety Training, Fingerprints, and Law Enforcement Involvement in Permit Process: 9 points. All are required for CCW permit. There’s a talk-to-the-local-Law process for pistol purchase, and no permit process for long-gun purchase. The Brady’s chart isn’t nuanced enough to reflect all that, though…)
The “Curb Firearm Trafficking” category looks like Fed regulations repeated at the State level, except for theft-reporting by owners. (Between 6 and 9 points)
We’ve got to work on college campuses, and employer-parking-lots are in a legal gray area that needs clearing up. (That would knock off 4 points.)
And we can quit requiring pistol locks with every weapon sold. (2 points)
May 5th, 2011 at 4:39 pm
It looks like it is actually possible to to have a total score of negative 2, so even you zero score states have something to aim for.
Frankly I’m offended. All this wailing and gnashing of teeth here in Ohio over restaurant carry and Ohio doesn’t even get any points for banning it.
May 5th, 2011 at 7:17 pm
Woot!!
ND is 4/100.
May 6th, 2011 at 3:05 am
The longer I live in AZ the more and more I like it. I am a bit disappointed that our governor did not pass the guns on college campus bill. Oh well I guess you can’t be perfect.