I don't know about the rest of y'all, but I'm super psyched about this bill. The NRA is behind it 100%, and I can now go shooting at the local range before work, and can't be fired for leaving my guns locked safely away in my car while i'm at work. and if somehow I let my pistol permit lapse, which might happen now that it doesn't have to be renewed yearly (an action performed often is often habit forming), I will no longer be in legal limbo if I want to take a pistol to the range and shoot or if I want to take it anywhere else for that matter.
This bill is a win win win. one of the first things the idiots in montgomery have done right in quite a while. I had begun to long for the days when my state was run by an ex used car salesman...
as an aside, some may not like permits, but I'm pretty happy I've got one when occasionally pulled over at night by the cops. First thing they see (or so I understand), is that you have a pistol permit and no warrants for your arrest. I've always been treated very decently since I've had a pistol permit (usually also before hand, but I've noticed a difference). It gives the cops a little piece of mind that I've already been checked out and that they have less to fear from interacting with me. I don't like that we essentially live in a police state, but since we do, I'm glad they don't feel the need to fear me. They behave better too, and I don't feel the need to fear them.