Maine allows gun owners to carry concealed weapons without permit

[priell3]

Maine will allow gun owners to carry concealed weapons without a permit, a practice called "constitutional carry" by Second Amendment advocates, under a bill signed into law on Wednesday by Republican Governor Paul LePage.

The measure will make Maine the fifth state to pass a law legalizing the carrying of a handgun, either openly or concealed, without the requirement of a government permit.

Maine joins Alaska, Arizona, Wyoming and Kansas in voting to allow the practice, according to National Rifle Association spokesman Lars Dalseide. Vermont has never required a permit. Arkansas and Montana also allow more limited forms of constitutional carry.

More than a dozen other states have considered similar legislation.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...0PI2QX20150708

[Solaran_X]

Predictably, the anti-civil rights people are making their usual claims of blood in the streets because of this. Yet Maine has the second lowest violent crime rate in this nation at 121.6 per 100,000 (Vermont has the lowest at 114.9 per 100,000). The lowest crime rate for a "gunsense" state is Hawaii with 245.3 per 100,000 violent crime rate.

So in short, the "safest" "gunsense" state in the nation has more than twice the violent crime of the safest state in the nation (which received an F from the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence because of their lax gun laws).

Maine ranked 21st in firearm deaths per 100,000 population in 2013, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Hawaii had the fewest and Alaska the most, the data shows.

And of course this quote from that "article" perpetuates the misuse of statistics by including suicides in their "firearms deaths per 100,000 population," even though this law implementing Constitutional carry will have absolutely no impact on suicide numbers.

[clarencecoffee]

Yep. Like a broken record.

Wild West!
Ok Corral
Blood in the streets
Shoot outs in traffic
Felons carrying guns unimpeded
Law enforcement under siege.

Just like Vermont.