Can't Get a Gun Here? No Problem: Florida Will Issue Permit, and Local Police Must Honor It. Phila. Authorities Are Irate February 05, 2010 — Imagine having your driver's license revoked in Pennsylvania but then being able to get one in Florida - through the mail - that must then be honored here. Now imagine it happens with guns. Because it does. Pennsylvania residents who are denied a license to carry a concealed weapon, or have theirs revoked, have found a loophole that allows them to get a license from another state that must be honored here.
State House Proposal Targets Gun Ban for Parks: Lawmakers Seek Return to Earlier 'Status Quo' February 04, 2010 — Robert Proudman, representing the Appalachian Trail Conservancy in Harpers Ferry, W.Va., said between 1 and 2 million people hike the trail every year. Yet during the past 40 years, there have only been eight murders — two of which involved guns — along the 2,200-mile-long trail stretching from Georgia to Maine.... “I believe allowing firearms on the Appalachian Trail is unnecessary, possibly dangerous and, simply put, a bad idea,” Proudman said. “Perhaps most important, we don’t want the culture to change.”
Looser Rules on Concealed Weapons Advance February 02, 2010 — The measure alarmed the Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police, which sent its lobbyist, John Thomas, to the Senate Judiciary Committee to try to kill the measure. "SB 1102, if enacted into law, will take Arizona back to the Wild West," he said, "with no consideration of officer safety."
Editorial: A Deadly License November 22, 2009 — Florida hands out so many concealed handgun permits that the state bureaucracy can't keep up with the demand. So it should surprise no one that Florida leads the nation in the number of killings committed by holders of concealed handgun permits.