I am a firearms instructor for concealed carry permits and NRA courses. Although Arizona has a “constitutional carry” law that allows people to carry concealed firearms without a permit, many people still take my training course just to know the laws regarding firearms: what you can not do, and what you are allowed to do. [...]
In another dramatic victory for firearm owners, the Supreme Court has ruled unconstitutional Chicago, Illinois’, 28-year-old strict ban on handgun ownership, a potentially far-reaching case over the ability of state and local governments to enforce limits on weapons. A 5-4 conservative majority of justices on Monday reiterated its 2-year-old conclusion that the Constitution gives individuals [...]
The Arizona Constitutional Carry legislation, SB 1108, goes into effect July 29, 2010. I am a strong proponent of the Second Amendment, and I am also a NRA certified firearms instructor, as well as DPS approved CCW instructor. I personally feel that instead of enacting a new law to replace the old (unconstitutional) law, the [...]
On Tuesday, May 11, 2010, Governor Brewer signed HB 2725, an education omnibus bill, which contained technical changes improving the state’s high-school marksmanship law, The Arizona Gun Safety Program. The changes make the classes easier to organize and deliver. Any school district or charter school in the state is authorized to teach the elective one-credit [...]
Governor Brewer signed SB 1108, the Constitutional Carry bill, into law today, April 16, 2010. Arizona now becomes the third state to not require written permission from the government for law-abiding citizens to exercise their right to bear arms discretely. Because Arizona is the first state in the U.S. with a large urban population to [...]
Two ground-breaking bills were signed by the Governor on Monday, April 5, 2010. The first was HB 2543, Firearms Preemption. HB 2543 strengthens state firearms preemption laws, adds firearms storage and accessories to the list of things political subdivisions cannot regulate, and removes the prohibition on carrying a firearm in public parks without a concealed [...]
On February 22, a new law took effect that applied state firearms laws to national parks and wildlife refuges across America. The implementation of the new law, which the National Park Service (NPS) has planned for since passage of H.R. 627 last May, has so far been without major problems. NPS management reports that it [...]
