Drawing a Blank? Know Your Gun Laws!

DRAWING A BLANK? KNOW YOUR GUN LAWS! RIGHT TO CARRY LAWS •BY STATE • 44 states have constitutional provisions protecting the RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS SHALL ISSUE DISCRETIONARY/ NO PERMIT RIGHTS REASONABLE Upon completion of specified requirements, a law-abiding person shall be granted a permit to carry concealed firearms. REQUIRED Allows individuals to RESTRICTED- ISSUE VERY LIMITED carry concealed firearms for lawful Government has ISSUE discretion over the Government has complete discretion over the issuance of carry permits, and is normally used to deny the issuance of permits. purposes without a permit. issuance of a carry permit, but generally grants permits to all law-abiding persons. PERMIT RECOGNITION •BY STATE • OUTRIGHT TRUE CONDITIONAL NO RECOGNITION State recognizes all valid carry permits issued by any state. RECIPROCITY RECIPROCITY RECOGNITION State recognizes all valid carry permits State recognizes all valid carry permits of another state's State does not recognize carry permits issued by any from states that recognize permits issued by that state. permit only when certain conditions other state. are met. SELF DEFENSE LAWS • BY STATE • CASTLE DOCTRINE: State law which protects the right to self-defense, including deadly force, anywhere a person has a legal right to be. ENACTED NO LAW GUN SAFETY STATISTICS 80X 69% Over the past 20 years, guns sales are higher than ever, but during the same time Guns in the United States are used crimes with firearms are down more often to prevent crime than they are to take lives. After the city of Kennesaw, Georgia passed a law REQUIRING EVERY HOME TO HAVE A GUN, the crime rate dropped by more than 50% FA Approximately 200,000 WOMENR in the United states use guns to protect themselves against sexual crime every year. "EVERY CITİZEN HAS A RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS O AND THIS RIGHT SHALL NEVER BE QUESTIONED." MAINE STATE CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISION INFOGRAPHIC BROUGHT TO YOU BY: LOWVARATES .COM Souroes http://www.nraila.org/gun-laws/state-laws.aspx http:// www.nraila.org/gun-laws.aspx http://www.infowars.com/18-little-kn k-known-gun-facts-that-prove-that-guns-make-us-safer/