by Idaho Gov. Butch Otter (R-ID) signed “permitless” concealed carry (aka constitutional carry) into law on March 27th. It allows Idaho citizens age 21 and over to carry concealed without a permit within city limits. They already had this right outside city limits. This made Idaho the ninth state to have constitutional carry.
On Tuesday, the Mississippi House of Representatives concurred with the Mississippi Senate on amendments to HB 786. The Senate amendments expanded what was originally just a church carry bill into one that included that and constitutional carry. The amended bill passed both houses with veto proof majorities. The bill now goes to Gov. Phil Bryant (R-MS) who is expected to sign the bill. That would make Mississippi the tenth state to have constitutional carry and the third to pass it this year. Some have criticized the bill as also including “nullification”. Actually the bill doesn’t include nullification as it merely states that Mississippi officials and law enforcement don’t have an obligation to enforce Federal gun control laws which is in line with existing Supreme Court precedent.
Given that the number of states with constitutional carry has increased to 10, Rob Vance and I concluded it was time to update the graphic showing the spread of freedom. The graphic below shows how the United States has moved from no carry to shall-issue and permitless carry over the last 30 years. As I said a few years ago, shall-issue is the new norm. Maybe one day I’ll be able to change this to constitutional carry is the new norm.
Here are the population statistics that accompany the above graphic:
0.4% No Issue, HI
27.0% May Issue, CA,DC,MD,MA,NJ,NY,RI
65.4% Shall Issue
7.2% Unrestricted, AK,AR,AZ,ID,KS,ME,MS,VT,WV,WY
At the same time that shall-issue and permitless or constitutional carry have expanded, violent crime has decreased. While correlation isn’t causation, I do think this is significant. When this graphic was first developed, Rob noted that there was no positive correlation between carry and violent crime. Unfortunately, he also noted that a negative correlation has not yet been proved. Linoge at Walls of the City has been studying gun ownership and the incidence of violent crime for a number of years. His latest is posted here. He has a similar result. Thus, neither more guns or less restrictive carry means more crime.
Do all these permitless carry states have provisions to issue permits, so their residents can have reciprocity in other states, or are they just SOL?
I'm not sure about Vermont but the rest of the states do, I believe, have such provisions in place.
Thank you. Last I heard, Vermont had no such provision. That's what prompted my question.
Vermont is an outlier. They are permitless due to a State Supreme Court decision based on the VT constitution from 1910 or thereabouts. The other Con Carry states all evolved from shall-issue, retaining their permits in what should be called "Alaska Carry" as we were the first state to go permitless by statute (2004).
If that's the updated graph, you should probably double check your math: IF 9 states have constitutional carry, the graph should reflect the blue portion taking up 18%, not 9%.
-HSR47
I'll check with Rob.
Also, Mississippi may be missing from the chart since the Gov. hasn't signed it yet.
We are talking apples and oranges. While 18% of the US states now have constitutional carry, it still is only 7.2% of the US population.
The information on Gun Nuttery is incorrect for Georgia (Cramer & Kopel were mistaken). Georgia was shall issue in 1976. I can't find the contact information to the Gun Nuttery guy to be able to tell him to change it.
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