Best States For Gun Owners to Make a DIFFERENCE in

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There are dozens of threads about what states are best for gun owners. I live in one of the best, Alaska. But one of the drawbacks of living here is that there's not much you can do to make a difference in gun rights. It strikes me that other states closer to the front lines would be better places for gun owners to live if they want to be able to confront the antis. Virginia, for example. Or Nevada. Places where there's enough political support to have a chance at victory and where the antis have been making inroads in both the legal and cultural spheres. What states would you list here and why?
 
Defintely not ILLINOIS. We have a full slate of anti-gun rights Democrats running the State and the People's Republic of Chicago (as well as my home town, Rockford with an "independent" as Mayor who signed on to NYC Mayor Bloomberg's anti-gun agenda). What makes it all worse is that the Republican party is totally disorganized and inept in this state and will not, at least in the forseeable future, be able to successfully challenge the leftists.
 
PA

They have good laws, but a lot of anti legislation coming down the pipe.
 
PA is the cultural and political battlefront, literally the Keystone state.

Specifically, the front lines are the populous counties surrounding Philadelphia.

(GAH...yes, that's where I live)

It would take several pages of voter and demographic analysis to demonstrate why this is so, for now I ask you to take it on faith that I've done my homework.
 
A better queston, regardless of city or state, might well be, "How do you motivate gun owners to vote?"

When I consider that Austin, Texas, has had voter turnouts for city council/mayoral elections of 9% and 11%, I wonder where were those who resent the anti-gun stance of the city government? Gun owners, alone, could elect an entire pro-gun slate, if they'd organize half as well as myriad groups around town.

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Florida is good too.

we helped lead the way with CCW and led the way with the "Stand Your Ground" laws

all we need now is open carry and id argue we are the best in the country:D
 
Virginia--pretty good for RKBA, but the NoVA area is gaining influence and has lots of folks who think MD's laws are pretty swell. Need to hold the line there.

Pennsylvania--largely for the reasons mentioned above.

Maryland--short of IL, DC, and NY, the worst state going for capricious, elitist gun laws, and according to the Brady folks, their favorite test site for antigun laws that they fancy exporting to other states. To borrow a phrase, we gotta fight em here so we don't fight em elsewhere (that phrase seems a pretty hollow platitude in the foreign policy sense since we're fighting "them" in that context on lots of different fronts, but in the gun rights sense, it makes a lot of sense--the bad guys only have but so many resources, and we've got them devoting a lot of energy in MD that they're not spending elsewhere).
 
Stauble, no, Florida did not. Indiana had been carrying for decades before Florida's reform. Indiana had abolished the duty to retreat 130 years before Florida did.

See Kirk's Second Law of the Internet: if a state with many electoral votes does something, it is the first state to do something.
 
I was just talking to someone about this the other day. Here in PA there are a lot of people moving in from NY and NJ and they are sure trying to bring their anti-gun views and laws with them. Right now the state is right on the edge. Things could turn real ugly real fast, or the RKBA people can make a stand.
 
I live in one of the best, Alaska. But one of the drawbacks of living here is that there's not much you can do to make a difference in gun rights.

Why do you say that??
 
"Anyone can man the helm when the seas are calm."

I'm pretty sick of the "Come to ________(gun friendly state)." threads and comments. If you want to make a difference come to one of the gun-unfriendly states and join the fight. Because if we don't make them all gun-friendly, the anti's are doing their d@mnest to make them all gun-unfriendly.

So Cosmo, when are looking to move to Chicago ???? :neener:
 
You know, the more I read up on laws, the more I realize that most states are actually quite gun friendly. The problem is that many gun owners are silent because they believe that they are in the minority. Truth be told, I am coming ot believe that we really are a majority- just not a real vocal one. You know there are some days, I check THR and I see a post saying, "Alert- immediate action required on HR. 12345 bill proposed by East Jesus Town Legislature- Call your congressman immediately"I think, ugh, not another post, who cares. But then I realize that it IS an important post. You know what? People DO call their congressman. It's only a minor thing these days with cellphones and such. Stuff spreads around these gunboards, we act, out of patriotism- and it's not hard, it only takes a couple minutes on your lunch break to dial up a congressman. I think instead of trying to isolate places like Illinois and California, we should fight them as well. If you hit antis in home territory, they have to fight to keep their status quo. If we back off, they bring the fight to us. I say, stab into these liberal bastions. Hell, go after NYC laws and politicians. Give 'em a little scare or two. I believe with perseverance that we WILL win. It'll probably take 50 or so years though, before we get the more extreme laws repealed.
 
I'm sure that there are some that criticize me for moving from Illinois to Kentucky. However, I spent decades doing my part to try to change the laws there and it just wasn't gonna happen. I've got stacks of copies of letters I sent to Paul Simon and Carol Mosely Braun and others. It's like beating your head against a wall.

At least now I get to spend the rest of my life a free man. Moving down here was about like moving to another country. It's that different. I can carry a gun damn near everywhere. When I bought a new pistol last month I just filled out the 4473, handed them the cash, and took the gun with me. No waiting period, no background check, no FOID card. All of my elected officials are NRA A rated.

Putting up the good fight is admirable, but in places like IL, CA, NY, MA, etc it is useless.
 
North Carolina

gun laws her are kinda relaxed but not like that man in kenntuky. Arizona and new mexico where i have family they still in holsters somtimes for evey honest man to see and the bad to feel.
 
New York STATE really isn't THAT bad. Ditch the stupid state AWB, I loathe the twilight zone-like feeling of "what if the federeal AWB never fell". Some counties are basically shall issue for the unrestricted pistol permit. Step 1: Get as many counties as possible to be unrestricted shall issue. Step 2: work on getting rid of the damn permit.

Don't classify everything as hopeless. Much of it has to do with New Yorker mentality. Many New Yorkers simply don't understand RKBA. Those of us in the South are seen as "crazy Texans with AK-47s"... and somehow "backward".How do I know this? I grew up in upstate NY. You want to see infringement on rights? Visit Rochester, NY. Handguns and most semi-auto longarms are effectively banned. How effective at fighting crime... except...wait for it... the city of Rochester has one of the highest murder rates in NY state (I think it averages 62/year).
 
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