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03Lightningrocks got me thinking about Constitutional Carry. It is legal to Constitutional Carry in Texas, but there are benefits to having an LTC. Reciprocity is one of those benefits... but how many states can you carry in without a license?

It turns out, a lot:

Concealed Carry: (18 States)
Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia

Concealed Carry Maps

Open Carry: (31 states now, including Texas)



opencarry.org

An LTC gives you more states and more benefits, but it is remarkable how much things have changed

https://handgunlaw.us/

this website seems to be a good, up-to-date resource on each state's handgun laws. Just click on the state and it will pull up their specific laws and lots of very detailed pertinent information.

States like Oregon for example don't honor other state's handgun licenses, however they do allow open carry without a license. But you better read carefully for prohibited places, etc.

If you have a valid Texas resident Texas Handgun License your license is honored in 36 states. However as mentioned, more than half of those states are also constitutional carry states.

There are 14 states that do not honor your valid Texas Handgun license, though some of them (like Maine and New Hampshire) have laws that allow permitless carry.

Isn't it amazing that there aren't daily news reports about blood on the streets in those 30 states with permit-less carry? Several have open carry.

puma guy wrote: ↑Tue Feb 01, 2022 2:46 pm Isn't it amazing that there aren't daily news reports about blood on the streets in those 30 states with permit-less carry? Several have open carry.

Yep. And places where it is still difficult to legally carry a firearm are NYC, Chicago, and Cali which are all home to organized crime.

Paladin wrote: ↑Tue Feb 01, 2022 4:35 pm

puma guy wrote: ↑Tue Feb 01, 2022 2:46 pm Isn't it amazing that there aren't daily news reports about blood on the streets in those 30 states with permit-less carry? Several have open carry.

Yep. And places where it is still difficult to legally carry a firearm are NYC, Chicago, and Cali which are all home to organized crime.

The real offices of organized crime in those places are in NYC and Chicago City Halls, and the California state Capitol.

Why is Texas shown as open carry only with a permit?

Outdated map I suppose

Here is the link to the list of states where carry without a permit is legal. I don't know how to get it to display as a map, my apologies. Texas IS on the list. It was last updated as of the 10th of February, 2022.

https://www.handgunlaw.us/documents/Per ... States.pdf

what's going on with Florida??? oh yeah my bad too many new yorkers there, de santis don't want to scare them

Florida has a bill for open carry working through the legislature there, last I read.

I am blown away by New Hampshire and Vermont.

K.Mooneyham wrote: ↑Tue Feb 22, 2022 5:55 pm Florida has a bill for open carry working through the legislature there, last I read.

I read the same thing somewhere.