I've wondered that too. North Carolina seems to be one of the worst about that. It's a shall-issue state and its permit has excellent reciprocity (one of the few that is better than Texas) but severely restricts where you can carry. Texas is pretty good about where we can carry, although there is room for improvement--we aren't as good as Utah, New Hampshire, or Oregon yet.bdickens wrote:I've always wondered what good it is to have a Concealed Carry law if you can't carry anywhere.
Lots of southern states seem to have hangups about allowing carry in restaurants, although the situation is improving--Georgia started allowing it last year, and Tennessee this year (and no drunken CHL holders mowing down people in bars, despite the anti's dire predictions). The only southern states now not allowing it are the Carolinas and Virginia. Virginia should change that next year, too--a bill has been passed the last two years but was vetoed, but Virginia just elected their extremely pro-gun attorney general to be the next governor.