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scooter03 wrote:Ok, I appreciate all of your responses, including the ones making me look like the backside of a mule.

Scooter, I apologize if the responses (including mine) seemed to attack you. That certainly wasn't my intent.

However, I on the first hand live next door to a person that scares the bejesus out of me, just as soon as he heard this, yehaw now he wants to have a gun to carry in the car.

Is this person legally proscribed from owning a gun? Could he qualify for a CHL if he chose to go that route? Note: except for disqualifiers like back taxes and child support and certain misdemeanor convictions, anyone who can legally carry in a car could also qualify for a CHL.

Now you ask why dont I move, Its my dad, he has been diagnosed as mentally ill, and child like tendencies. Got arrested in a store recently for hitting a store manager.

Now would you want that person to have a gun? You know my opinion.

Can he get a gun? Legally no, but guess what I got my first gun from him. actually 3 now, 2 shotguns and a pistol.

You answered your own question: the law might forbid him to get a gun, but that's isn't the same as preventing it. The law forbids murder, but it doesn't prevent it. The country is full of felons who are illegally in possession of firearms. I process 5-10 every week.

So why do I speak out? to get looked down upon

I disagree with your position. I don't look down on you.

Kevin

scooter03 wrote:Now what bothers me is that just any Tom , Dick and Harry can carry one in their car while concealed. According to the Media!!!!

For once, the media are correct.

For the record, I'm not bothered in the least that Tom, Dick, and Harry can carry concealed in their cars. Likewise for Suzie, Sally, and Jane.

That's part of the right to keep and bear arms. The requirement for a CHL is an infringement on that right. The CHL should be viewed as a bother, not membership in an exclusive club.

Is this right??? I knew that there were new laws that were going into effect on the 1st of Sept., but I believed that the law for anyone to carry concealed in their car would be as long as they were traveling.

As of 9/1/2005, anyone in their car is traveling. As of 9/1/2007, it doesn't matter if they're traveling, because UCW no longer applies.

Maybe someone can make me happy and not have to worry about this.

You should consult with this guy.

I only say this because their are some people who should not even be allowed to look at guns, much less own one.

And who gets to say who "those people" are?

No toes were harmed in the reading of your post.

Kevin