Would you stay or move, if gun laws changed in your state?

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My mom developed Dementia and alzheimers, while moving from NY to FL, about 10 years ago, It was a nightmare, but she is in a Facility in Vero for 2 years now, and it turns out that Florida law is a lot more sympathetic when it comes to getting them into a facility once they reach a point where they require 24/7 assistance. I thought we could do it ourselves but unless you have been there you have no idea how hard it is. She willingly moved here , "I guess at that point, she knew she couldn't live alone any longer, even with 5 sisters. Turned out all passed, one at 103, and she would have passed if I hadn't intervened 10 yrs. ago. Also FL has a Personnel Services Contract, which allows you liberties that other states do not, when it comes to financial matters.
 
I would not move from Florida just over a gun-law change. This is based on my personal situation and attitude. Others may be in a position to choose differently.
 
AZ is starting to look better to me than FL. But as said if it goes Federal, we have decisions to make., when I see things like this, it gives me reason to be concerned as to what's next,https://www.gunsamerica.com/blog/fl...campaign=/blog/florida-banned-ar-15-triggers/, I'm almost 70 and carried for 46 years, I really would not feel comfortable in this environment walking around unarmed. Especially having needed my weapon 3 times or more in those 47 years. There is too much crazy stuff going on these days, to be unarmed. These sob's don't even know what they are voting for or against.

Florida is on the east coast. Eventually it will become a liberal state just from trickle-down yankees moving there to escape the cold and snow of their northern residences.
 
I left the west coast around thirty years ago because I could see the oncoming wave of liberal fascism. I couldn't get a job in my chosen field because of the race quota system. Taxes were rising, rights were melting away. Wound up in Texas, where the laws just keep getting friendlier by the day. No state taxes, personal rights returning.
I've moved more than fifty times, so far. I might move again, but it's not likely.
I like the Texas way of life.
 
We talk about Florida and doing the snowbird thing but I recently read where 1/3 of all convicted felons in the US reside in Florida, no CCW there would make even partial residency risky IMHO
 
Is the new state going to be any more friendly three or four years in the future than the one they left?
That's really the key, for a move. I would say that you have to look at a minimum 10-year time frame. If the gun laws change in your new state within 10 years, so that they're like what you left, what have you gained? Are you going to move yet again, to ever-diminishing destinations?
 
I live in Arkansas, so I'm not too concerned. That said, there are one or two other states to which I could (at least in theory) move. Obstacles include aging parents, the need to get licensed in the new state, and a wife and child who wouldn't really want to move. In the end, while I could move, I'd be much more likely to stay and fight the political & legal fights.
 
Moving isnt an option for me, I also dont see our local gun laws changing much anytime soon.
 
Another one of these "move" threads. Bottom line some people like to move and others like many on this thread that have established roots are going to stay. I think many of the "I"LL MOVE" replies don't have a lot to leave behind.

Oh and to the guy worrying about "Yankees" moving to Florida. Really? I think you'd be shocked at how many guns we own. We just don't have them in the back pickup window and shoot at the moon.:p
 
If Kentucky falls then I doubt there will be anywhere left to go by then. But in the spirit of the question, I would find it hard to let go of the family property and all I’ve worked for here in exchange for what would probably only be a temporary reprieve.
 
I’ve most of my life in Virginia. I fled Northen Va to get away from the hoard that ruined it.

I am worried about the idiots who have been elected here by them. We’re only a few seats from CA style gun laws.

Not being a coward, I plan to fight as long as possible as I’m a Virginian. Hopefully though it’ll go better than Lee’s fight.
 
At my age it isn't an option but I'm not worried about my state.
I would worry quite a bit about our state. For some reason NM politics have been dominated by liberal Democrats for decades, with no relief in sight. We have been blessed with 8 years of a Republican governor, but if Michelle Lujan Grisham (a nasty piece of work) prevails this November we are in deep, deep doo doo. I love Steve Pearce, and will vote for him and encourage others to do the same, but I have a really bad feeling about this election cycle here in the Land of (dis)Enchantment.
 
I would not move from Texas over a gun law change. At my age I will not be affected as much as it will all the snowflakes, liberals and other idiots to many to mention. I am happy to know that at my age there are plenty of us who feel comfortable defending our lives with bolt guns ,revolvers, and lever actions. I do not fear the government trying to take our guns away as much as I fear the downfall of our society. The degradation of our civilized society has reached such a low point that if anyone commits mass murder at a school the media and politicians use of their official office power concentrate their individual agenda and focus on the wrong problem for a solution, when in reality they could care less.

Katrina opened my eyes when I saw man’s resolve last less than 3 days and I saw a civilized society crumble and turn into such chaos and lawlessness that humanity was non-existent. We need to get off of our soap boxes and stop the ranting about guns and get back to the basic needs of humanity. Parents need to bring back what was once a nuclear family. They need to interact with their children on a daily basis and put down their damn cell phones and stop texting and surfing and spend quality time with their children and have conversations and teach them respect for each other and their neighbors.

Instead I encounter parents that instruct their children that they do not have to mind teachers, the police, or adults. I encounter children, young men and women not displaying respect for each other. Those that are cowards posting and bullying those weaker than themselves shaming everyone while hiding behind their electronic devices because they do not have the courage to confront individuals on a face to face basis. So now these young teenage boys and girls reach a breaking point and shoot up a school, commit suicide, or blow themselves up because they may have had parents that ignored them because they were to busy being on the damn cell phones. If you think I am wrong, next time you are at a restaurant look around and see. You will find a young child trying to get their parents attention but the parents are ignoring them because they are on their cell phone.

Our humanity is reaching a point of no return that I am glad I will never get to experience. Though the history of our nation has been a violent one, we were still a nation feared but most important respected because of our Constitution. We were a nation able to see our weaknesses and recognize them that change was necessary, so we fought for our independence, we fought a civil war, we abolished slavery, and now we have lost our direction by tearing down monuments that depicted our history as it truly was, but instead now we have the temerity to say that it is a step in the right direction. No it is not, we need to accept our past as ugly as it was so that it can be a beacon of where we came from. Now we have a whole state where teachers walked out and closed all schools statewide, we have a church urging their members to bring their AR’s so that they can be blessed, we buy video games for our children that rewards them for shooting characters that are humanized. In our times we had space ships, or gobbled up fruits, nothing that would devalue a human life. We need to get our humanity back.
 
Easy for me to answer since I did move.

Won't turn this into a California bashing, but there were many reasons why I left. I had a CCW permit there and it was still insufferable.

I viewed it like a bad marriage. Once it becomes irreconcilable, irredeemable; staying in it makes no sense.
 
At the age of 74, I'm not going to choose my AR over my wife, four children, four grandchildren, and the homestead and construction business I've spent fifty years building. Because none of them are coming with me if I move to Texas. I'd love to live in Texas, or Montana, or Vermont, but just me and my guns would be a pretty empty life.
I hate my state's attitude towards gun ownership, I've been fighting the losing battle all my life; but at this point I'm not going anywhere. Maybe one of my sons will be the pioneer in the family.
Tinpig
 
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