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Originally Posted by luger.parabellum
That's somehing I don't understand, if Americans don't have the right to carry their firearms why 45 states if I'm not wrong are issuing CC licenses and some other states allow open carry?  |
As far as I know, there is no federal law saying that you can't. However, every state can come up with their own additional laws, as long as they don't violate federal law. Simply put: state law needs to be more stringent than federal law. Some states have made the decision that guns need to be heavily regulated, which doesn't violate federal law (but violates the Constitution instead).
These states have seen a dramatic decline in gun crime, it's basically down to zero and their citizens don't fear walking around town after dark as they know that there are absolutely, positively no guns around. Even gang members in the most violent suburbs of large cities have turned in their guns, and have taken up knitting and stamp collecting instead...
