Because They Don't Need Us

The reason the RINO GOP in Tallahassee don't advance pro-gun bills is because they don't need gun owners to retain power up there.

I get the impression that the leadership up there doesn't like him much, and a decent part of the blame for that is actually at Marion's feet.

She was definitely an NRA or Florida Sportsman Association or nothing sort.

Her attitude is pervasive up there, and GOA FL is not NRA or FSA and the legislators don't feel that GOA can affect elections.

They further know that we don't wish to commit political suicide by electing Democrats.

Poor Marion

Let us never forget 2011 when she fucked us on open and campus carry.

Despite her denials, she withheld NRA support until it was poison pilled by amendments that had been removed in committee.

Well, she just got her golden parachute taken away.

As others have said, if I had made as much as she was making for as long as she was making it, I wouldn't be worried about making it to the end.

I do worry about the cats.

Because We Forget

If we're going to make any damn progress we have to notice and remember who wasn't on our side when it mattered.

Even if they were solidly on our side for years and years before that.

Because once they stop doing the heavy lifting we need to get them gone so we can remember them fondly instead of resenting their abandoning us.

Marion Hammer did a lot of good work.

Decades ago.

She's not done much for us lately and has actively opposed us at least four times since 2011.

She should have trained her replacement and retired a long while ago.

I guess it's hard to give up that paycheck with all the people who'll carry water for her.

Just stab the "Marion" tag and be reminded that she stopped being on our side a while back.

Amazing

As flighty as I can be at times...

There's stuff I remember that sticks.

There's a few items here and there where I remember who said what and when and it gets held until an appropriate moment to spit it back.

A spat I had with Miggy a while back had him dismissing what I was saying because I was quoting "some guy on the internet".

MiamiJBT from Arfcom was who I was quoting.

Well, MiamiJBT has morphed into Luis Valdes of Florida Gunowners of America.

Suddenly he's sanctified by being GOA's voice in Tallahassee and no longer just some dude.

By his own admission, he's not really doing anything different than he would be without GOA on his business card.

He's also the first person who reported what Marion was doing to us way back when open carry and campus carry got amended on the floor with the very same poison pill amendments rejected in committee.

But, hey, he's official now!

Wayne Marion Open Question

I get lots of emails from Wayne and Marion about gun bills in Florida.

Why haven't I gotten one about something truly pro-gun?

HB123 is Constitutional Carry for Florida.

You'd think that'd be something that the NRA would be backing here.

Where's the alert email?

Or are they doing "not invented here" again like they did when Marion killed open/campus carry back in 2011?

By the way, Floridians, get on your State Congress Creatures to move this bill out of committee and to a passing vote.

No Wayne

Mr La Pierre, besides the fact that I think you're long overdue to retire, you've got some impressively large cojones to be asking for money while the corporation you're captaining is filing for bankruptcy.

You're on your own until the NRA exits these proceeding.

Hopefully without you and the cat lady.

The Funny Thing Is

I don't even really want to open carry.

What I want is a more comfortable option to carry, and that hazards brief exposure.

Outside the waistband under a bowling or Hawaiian shirt, for example.

The wind gets a vote.

Under the laws as written, if I notice in time, that might be "brief exposure" and I'd be OK.

The problem with the law as written is the legislature never defined what they meant by brief exposure and left it up to the local constabulary to decide.

Many have made it a matter of policy that any exposure is open carry.

That it was going to be this way was clear during the committee hearings and the statements of the Law Enforcement Officer organizations.

From their repeated statements, it was obvious that the only way for a person whom honestly lost track of their cover garment for a moment to be treated as the brief exposure law intended was for the law to actually allow open carry.  In Florida that would mean licensed open carry.

The skirmishes with the state congress creatures and the state's law enforcement organizations ended up making me more radical than I originally intended and my goal became getting unlicensed, unrestricted open carry of anything the carrier can lug just to piss off the police organizations who've been preventing my previous, reasonable, goal.

That it would also anger "don't rock the boat, my cats will fall out" Marion Hammer... bonus round!

Me And The NRA

Until I knuckled down and subscribed to get a lifetime membership, I was an on-again/off-again member of the NRA since 1994.

A couple times I kept it up long enough to get voting rights.

I grew to loathe the ring of the phone because twice a week it was the NRA/ILA asking for money.

Considering I let my membership lapse several times from lack of money, I didn't have anything to spare for the ILA.

It hardened my heart against donating to them because I clearly told them that being a member was all I could afford and they'd know my finances had changed when I mailed them a check.  And I would!

When they didn't get the message I changed my position.

When Brady is repealed, I will consider donating.

Remember, Wayne, you promised.  I remember.

I read about other promises too.  I read about accepting the bitter pill of no new MG's to get the rest of FOPA passed.  That's never been addressed.

AWB was going to be repealed just as soon as we voted for and elected a list of Republican candidates.  They were elected and...  AWB expired ten years and five elections later, it was never repealed.

Near as I can tell, if there's been a repeal for Brady or AWB submitted, it didn't get far or many co-sponsors.

It became apparent to me that the NRA's true value was to suck up fire from the anti-gunners while other groups worked for gun rights from a lower profile.

But that value is undermined when they fight against us at the state level here in Florida.  Just hit the "Marion" tag for some examples of their spokescatperson either selling us out or leaving us high and dry.

I cannot help but think that if they'd spent the money trying to get me to join a wine bottle club on lobbying we'd be further along.

I cannot help but think that if Unified Sportsmen of Florida was an actual organization rather than Marion's front for the NRA to buy cat food we'd have an organized grass-roots presence in Tallahassee rather than just the occasional visit from Marion.

I am unhappy about how the organization is run and I have wanted it to change for a long time.

Sadly, the changes that are coming are from outside forces who wish to destroy it (and cannot be ignored) than from within (who have systematically been ignored and disenfranchised) who wish to save it.

Armed With Hip Waders And A Giant Orange Iguana

Wander over to Miguel's where he's waded into the muck and compiled a listing of emails by committee membership so we can demand the ratfuck bastards we elected actually do our bidding.

For a change.

Thank him while you're over there because he's doing this without being paid $300,000 a year like Marion or going on armed fishing expeditions.

Honestly, the people and organizations that claim to be doing this professionally sure as heck don't seem to be keeping ahead of an unpaid one-man-show.

Fatigue

Miguel is concerned that we Florida gun owners don't seem too fired up about the slew of bullshit anti-gun crap going on in Tallahassee.

I'm fired up.

I'm definitely on my senator and representative's "it's THAT guy again!" list for emailing and calling.

The representative's... uh... representative even seems to finally grasp that what happened last year really was gun control and seems amiable to not making the same mistake twice.

The senator is very gung-ho and pro-gun.

I guess we will see come voting time.

Screaming here never seems to actually DO anything, so I've been slacking off it.

Some of the fatigue setting in is because I've been fighting this fight for 25 freaking years.

On the verge of victory, we snatched defeat out of its jaws by demanding purity and no compromise in getting conceal carry reciprocity and not bothering to read the fix-NICS portion of the bill which would have greased it right to The President's desk.  No compromise nearly always means no wins.

Look at all the progress no compromise has gotten either Mr Paul.

I am sick of knowing that one party is the enemy and the other cannot be trusted.

I am sick of Marion Hammer claiming to be doing oh so much, but never actually accomplishing anything.  I'm still smarting from her outright lie about killing off campus and open carry back in 2011.  The moment the Unified Sportsman of Florida stopped being the driving force behind the bill and things we unwashed peasant gun owners wanted got added; she pulled the USF and NRA support from it.  WE WATCHED HER DO IT!  Then she lied about doing it and blamed us.

As long as she's the spokesperson the Florida Congress looks to for what we want, we're dead.

I cannot find where I can join the USF as a member so that I might obtain a vote to steer their position.  I paid up a life membership with the NRA to get that vote, and I have now gotten to vote twice.

I donated some small amount to The Second Amendment Foundation.  They fight, they win.

I don't donate to Gunowners of America.  They're vocal, but they don't have anything in the win column that wasn't won by others.

For good or bad, this is no longer a legislative fight.  We're going to have to win it in court.

I would also like to point out that if we'd given up on the legislature in 2011 and gotten a ballot initiative going when we were all fired up and frisky: we'd be open carrying on campus these past seven years.

But we had to be pure.

We had to be no compromise.

We had to condemn each other for not liking what we liked or liking what we didn't.

Exploiting A Loophole

Bumpfire stocks were exploiting a loophole in the NFA and FOPA to get around the registration requirements and prohibition on new non-government manufacture of machine guns.

The NRA has long been A-OK with the ban on new MGs, why is everyone shocked they backed a ban on something that was circumventing that ban?

Where have y'all been?

They.  Are.  Fine.  With.  The.  NFA.

They don't want it changed to loosen restrictions.  Not for machine guns, not for short barreled rifles, not for short barreled shotguns, not for suppressors.

They have made no secret about it and have been more than willing to tell the people who were clamoring for getting things like SBR's taken off the NFA list to get the fuck back in our lanes.

If you're staring at an arm-brace on your AR or AK "pistol" prepare to be next, because this gets around the SBR portion of the NFA like bumpstocks got around MG's.

Likewise, do you have a Mossberg or Remington short barrel shotgun firearm?  That's exploiting a loophole too.

And we're on our own.  The largest NFA advocacy group is definitely of the "go be poor somewhere else" variety and actively works to maintain exclusivity of ownership.

The NRA is also totally willing to abandon your state and any attempt to advance gun rights on the grounds that you've got it better than some place that's much worse and has no chance of being changed.  They will then lie about what their sole representative did while we were watching them do it.

The only way to change them is to join them and vote for the board.  My life membership is paid up next month, and I've been a member long enough now to have been voting for those changes.

Useless

It is official.

The NRA-PVF ratings are garbage.

I've now watched FOUR A-rated politicians pushing FOR this bill.

Marion, this is why I constantly call you to task.

The NRA national has abdicated their political power to you in my state and I'm afraid I want to see more than an email telling me what I already knew about a bill in session.

If you can't do more than Miguel's blog, then what need do we have of you?

NRA national?  Fix this.

You concede that Florida is a gun rights battleground state.  A battleground that you cede to the enemy regularly because you can't get Marion to back bills she didn't write.

We needed support for the very non-Fudd bills of campus carry and open carry.

I have seen, repeatedly that if it's not Fudd, we don't get Marion.

Well, you showed them you didn't care and they're walking all over us now.

Fix this!

Be the gorilla you could be.

Hey Floridians!

Florida Urgent Now! Senate to take up Gun Control Bill TOMORROW
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2018

DATE: February 28, 2018
TO:

USF & NRA Member and Friends
FROM: Marion P. Hammer
USF Executive Director
NRA Past President

Tomorrow, March 1, 2018, the Florida Senate will take up SB-7026, a bill that punishes gun owners.

Senators are being bullied into voting for gratuitous gun control measures in order to be able to vote on school safety.

Senate leadership is trying to force Senators to vote for gun control if they want to vote to harden schools, to put armed security in schools and to keep guns out of the hands of dangerously mentally ill people.

These are the Gun Control measures contained in the Senate bill:

1. Makes it a felony for any person under 21 to purchase any firearm either privately or from a dealer. Exemption for active duty military & law enforcement only.

2. Minimum 3-Day Waiting Period on ALL FIREARMS. Exempts CW license holders and persons who have completed the Florida FWC Hunter Safety course.

3. Every year it confiscates 10% of the license fees paid by CW license holders to pay for the care of victims of mass shootings.

4. Bans the sale and transfer of Bump Stocks.

Please EMAIL members of the Florida Senate IMMEDIATELY and tell them to VOTE NO ON GUN CONTROL.

Urge them to provide armed security in schools and tighten mental health laws to keep guns out of the hands of those who are a danger to themselves or others BUT LEAVE THE RIGHTS OF LAW-ABIDING GUN OWNERS ALONE.

IN THE SUBJECT LINE PUT: VOTE NO ON GUN CONTROL– Vote Against SB-7026

(To send your message to all just Block and Copy All email addresses into the "Send To" box)

baxley.dennis@flsenate.gov,
bean.aaron@flsenate.gov,
benacquisto.lizbeth@flsenate.gov,
bradley.rob@flsenate.gov,
brandes.jeff@flsenate.gov,
broxson.doug@flsenate.gov,
flores.anitere@flsenate.gov,
gainer.george@flsenate.gov,
galvano.bill@flsenate.gov,
garcia.rene@flsenate.gov,
grimsley.denise@flsenate.gov,
hukill.dorothy@flsenate.gov,
hutson.travis@flsenate.gov,
lee.tom@flsenate.gov,
mayfield.debbie@flsenate.gov,
negron.joe@flsenate.gov,
passidomo.kathleen@flsenate.gov,
perry.keith@flsenate.gov,
simmons.david@flsenate.gov,
simpson.wilton@flsenate.gov,
stargel.kelli@flsenate.gov,
steube.greg@flsenate.gov,
young.dana@flsenate.gov,

Marion Located!

 I was getting worried about her.  Better late to the party than absent.

Marion P. Hammer

USF Executive Director

NRA Past President

In the wake of an atrocious act of premeditated murder, an organized effort to bully legislators into passing legislation to hijack your Second Amendment rights is underway.

The gun control faction is out in full force, determined to use the senseless murder of the students and adults at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as an excuse to promote their gun ban agenda.

Numerous gun control proposals that have been mentioned include:

1.) Waiting periods on long guns
2.) Raising age limits on the purchase of long guns
3.) Age limits on possession of semi-automatic rifles
4.) Ban of so-called "assault weapons"
5.) Ban of "bump-stocks"
6.) Removing the exemption for concealed weapons license holders from the existing waiting period on handguns

Please email or call your legislators IMMEDIATELY and ask them to focus on fixing our broken mental health system and improving school security, not punishing law-abiding gun owners because of the act of a deranged criminal.

Please EMAIL the following members of the Legislature IMMEDIATELY and tell them NO GUN CONTROL. Urge them to provide armed security in schools and tighten mental health laws to keep guns out of the hands of those who are a danger to themselves or others.

IN THE SUBJECT LINE PUT: GUN CONTROL Won't Protect our Children

(To send your message to all just Block and Copy All email addresses into the "Send To" box)

SENATE

baxley.dennis@flsenate.gov,
bean.aaron@flsenate.gov,
benacquisto.lizbeth@flsenate.gov,
bradley.rob@flsenate.gov,
brandes.jeff@flsenate.gov,
broxson.doug@flsenate.gov,
flores.anitere@flsenate.gov,
gainer.george@flsenate.gov,
galvano.bill@flsenate.gov,
garcia.rene@flsenate.gov,
grimsley.denise@flsenate.gov,
hukill.dorothy@flsenate.gov,
hutson.travis@flsenate.gov,
lee.tom@flsenate.gov,
mayfield.debbie@flsenate.gov,
negron.joe@flsenate.gov,
passidomo.kathleen@flsenate.gov,
perry.keith@flsenate.gov,
simmons.david@flsenate.gov,
simpson.wilton@flsenate.gov,
stargel.kelli@flsenate.gov,
steube.greg@flsenate.gov,
young.dana@flsenate.gov,

HOUSE

larry.ahern@myfloridahouse.gov,
ben.albritton@myfloridahouse.gov,
Thad.Altman@myfloridahouse.gov
Bryan.Avila@myfloridahouse.gov,
Halsey.Beshears@myfloridahouse.gov,
michael.bileca@myfloridahouse.gov,
jim.boyd@myfloridahouse.gov,
jason.brodeur@myfloridahouse.gov,
danny.burgess@myfloridahouse.gov,
Colleen.Burton@myfloridahouse.gov,
cord.byrd@myfloridahouse.gov,
matt.caldwell@myfloridahouse.gov,
Chuck.Clemons@myfloridahouse.gov,
neil.combee@myfloridahouse.gov,
richard.corcoran@myfloridahouse.gov,
Bob.Cortes@myfloridahouse.gov,
travis.cummings@myfloridahouse.gov,
jose.diaz@myfloridahouse.gov,
Manny.Diaz@myfloridahouse.gov,
Byron.Donalds@myfloridahouse.gov,
brad.drake@myfloridahouse.gov,
Dane.Eagle@myfloridahouse.gov,
Jay.Fant@myfloridahouse.gov,
Randy.Fine@myfloridahouse.gov,
Jason.Fischer@myfloridahouse.gov,
Heather.Fitzenhagen@myfloridahouse.gov,
Julio.Gonzalez@myfloridahouse.gov,
tom.goodson@myfloridahouse.gov,
Erin.Grall@myfloridahouse.gov,
james.grant@myfloridahouse.gov,
Michael.Grant@myfloridahouse.gov,
Joe.Gruters@myfloridahouse.gov,
bill.hager@myfloridahouse.gov,
Don.Hahnfeldt@myfloridahouse.gov,
gayle.harrell@myfloridahouse.gov,
shawn.harrison@myfloridahouse.gov,
Blaise.Ingoglia@myfloridahouse.gov,
clay.ingram@myfloridahouse.gov,
Sam.Killebrew@myfloridahouse.gov,
Mike.LaRosa@myfloridahouse.gov,
Chris.Latvala@myfloridahouse.gov,
Tom.Leek@myfloridahouse.gov,
MaryLynn.Magar@myfloridahouse.gov,
Amber.Mariano@myfloridahouse.gov,
Ralph.Massullo@myfloridahouse.gov,
Stan.McClain@myfloridahouse.gov,
Lawrence.McClure@myfloridahouse.gov,
larry.metz@myfloridahouse.gov,
Alex.Miller@myfloridahouse.gov,
Mike.Miller@myfloridahouse.gov,
george.moraitis@myfloridahouse.gov,
jeanette.nunez@myfloridahouse.gov,
jose.oliva@myfloridahouse.gov,
Bobby.Olszewski@myfloridahouse.gov,
Daniel.Perez@myfloridahouse.gov,
bobby.payne@myfloridahouse.gov,
Kathleen.Peters@myfloridahouse.gov,
Cary.Pigman@myfloridahouse.gov,
Scott.Plakon@myfloridahouse.gov,
Rene.Plasencia@myfloridahouse.gov,
mel.ponder@myfloridahouse.gov,
elizabeth.porter@myfloridahouse.gov,
Jake.Raburn@myfloridahouse.gov,
Holly.Raschein@myfloridahouse.gov,
Paul.Renner@myfloridahouse.gov,
Ray.Rodrigues@myfloridahouse.gov,
Bob.Rommel@myfloridahouse.gov,
Rick.Roth@myfloridahouse.gov,
david.santiago@myfloridahouse.gov,
ross.spano@myfloridahouse.gov,
Chris.Sprowls@myfloridahouse.gov,
cyndi.stevenson@myfloridahouse.gov,
Charlie.Stone@myfloridahouse.gov,
Jennifer.Sullivan@myfloridahouse.gov,
Jackie.Toledo@myfloridahouse.gov,
carlos.trujillo@myfloridahouse.gov,
Jay.Trumbull@myfloridahouse.gov,
frank.white@myfloridahouse.gov,
jayer.williamson@myfloridahouse.gov,
clay.yarborough@myfloridahouse.gov,

Where Are You Marion?

So far I've heard from "some person on a forum", Gun Owners of America and Florida Carry about what's going on up in Tallahassee.

I've got one dismissive statement from Marion Hammer that she's not been officially informed of the content of a bill which text is available online.

If we pull a win while you're silent during the fight, don't come out after and claim a share of the victory.

Part of this is to be SEEN doing stuff for us.  Back room wheeling and dealing is how we get shit like the Hughes Amendment and 922r.

Gotta Watch 'Em Like Hawks

The Guns in Churches Bill, SB1048 got a couple amendments added to it today.

750932 is universal background checks.

405836 says that your guns have to be under lock and key whenever there's someone 16 or younger who could gain access to them.  This is mostly by removing the portion of the existing law that allows for positive adult control.

171530 eliminates the prohibition on firearms registration in Florida.

532180 is a complete prohibition on so-called assault weapons.  Banning sale, transfer and possession.

Write your congress weasel.  I had to write the Senate president because I am unrepresented here in FL Senate District 16.  Our Senator resigned in disgrace and the governor didn't think a special election was worth the effort.

The companion FL House bill, HB1419 remains unmolested.

PS, way to support us, Marion; ""We cannot take a position on a piece of legislation that we have not seen,  We have not seen a draft. We have not been told officially and, until we know, we cannot take a position."

Bitch, please.

I knew what my position was on this before I read it.

How hard is it for you to say, "we oppose ANY restriction on firearms owners rights, regardless of what they are"?

Get on our side Marion.

The Magic Field Didn't Work Again

Once again a gunman was able to cross the magic barrier with a firearm and enter a gunfree zone.

My Senators are both fucking morons.

The AR used didn't even have iron sights.

You're not "maximizing loss of life" if you bring a 20" AR to near CQB distances without sights.

17 people died from a lack of shooting back.

The Lovely Harvey wants to know where the mandated armed deputies were.  This is a high school, there's supposed to be at least one, armed and in uniform, present at all times during school hours.

The suspect didn't have any holes in him, so our deputy didn't manage to return fire.  We don't even know if he was actually on site or, if so, they managed to get anywhere near the shooter.

I see a lot of mil looking gear in the photos of the police response.  Buying all that junk sure helped prevent this didn't it?

There's stuff that can be done to stop these attacks, but we keep shying away from it.  We could have had more effective deterrence in place seven years ago, but my favorite former NRA president took her ball and went home.  It wasn't HER bill, so it deserved no support.

I cannot help but wonder if our shooter would have been less likely to bring a gun to a place where a random adult could have had gun to shoot back.

As things stand now, we clearly know where the guns are prohibited, and the shooters keep shooting them up.

He didn't shoot up a firing range, police station or gunshow... Did he?

Perhaps Some Transparancy Would Help

There's a lot of dissatisfaction out there about how the NRA is responding to things and advancing OUR agenda on gun rights.

I've long held that the NRA is expert on the defense, but abysmal on offense.

I've also noticed they don't give even a centishit about NFA or NFA-like things and under the bus is where they throw NFA at every opportunity.

I've voted for the people whom I think will help, but...

Well, the way the things work at NRA HQ are a blank dark hole.

There's times where they appear to be in the way rather than helping, like not being able to see that a politician from Miami cannot be pro-gun; yet giving them A-ratings without anything but a statement from the politician they will be good?

Or will we be allowed to kick the football this year?

Third Time's The Charm?

A bill to sort out what accidentally exposing your concealed carry gun means is worming its way through committees in Tallahassee.

First, I'm not going to bother getting excited until it's completely out of committee.

Second I am SO happy we're doing this AGAIN.

This is the third time they're trying to make accidental exposure legal in some way.

The previous two time were nullified by the courts, at the behest of the various police organizations.

Remember how I complain that our pro-gun organizations are experts at holding actions, but worthless on the offense?

Way back in 2011 we almost got a bill that would have cured this problem.

Pro-gun organizations which weren't the NRA or USF got the accidental exposure verbiage changed to permitted open carry.

The staffers narc'd on Marion about her withdrawing support for the bill.  This led to a poison pill, which had been removed in committee, being added to the bill on the floor.

What about open carry doesn't accomplish what coverage for accidental carry does?

A bit later we got accidental exposure protection that was so nebulously defined so as to be no protection at all.  It left it up to the opinion of the viewing officer and when you add the court's automatic deferment to that opinion; you get no defense.

So now we're back at it again...  AGAIN...

Does this one end with, "and this time we mean it, don't make us come down there,"?

Now we're going to be fined for violating the concealed part.  $25 for first offense, $500 for second, misdemeanor criminal offense for third plus which is up to 60 days in jail or $500 (since offense 2 is $500, I bet they're going to go for jail time).

I notice that what isn't changed is the discretionary and subjective opinion of the local law about if the person was accidentally exposed.

Thagstrodomas predicts:  Printing, which is completely legal now, will become accidental exposure in the jurisdictions which can't learn that it's not 1986 anymore and the fines will rack up.

Eight Years

At present the Florida Congress is in session for the eighth time since open carry first got to committee.

It doesn't appear that we're even submitting a bill this session.

I want to know why, since our "allies" are so strong and powerful...

With a supermajority in both houses...

With a Governor who's stated he'd sign open carry, campus carry and airport carry...

That we cannot move things out of committee.

That our "allies" are more upset at US than at the people who keep stabbing us in the chest.  They're not stabbing us in the back, they're openly flaunting it.

Why can't our "allies" do the damn math?

The strong and powerful who cannot get anything accomplished are not, by definition, strong or powerful.

Fond remembrances of better times when they could move the world don't change they've become weak and powerless.

Or, if they still have strength and power, it's not being wielded to do more than maintain the status quo.  A status quo which is not being seriously challenged BECAUSE of said supermajority and governor.  You don't need to exert any strength to go with the flow.

I can tell urine from rain on my back.

Perhaps these things don't matter to our strong and powerful "allies" and you defend them so strongly because you don't want more places open to carry?