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Bruen pushed states away from discretionary permit systems, but it also triggered a wave of new sensitive-place restrictions, revised training requirements, and fresh litigation. States such as New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and California rewrote laws after the ruling, and those revisions kept the public carry fight alive in legislatures and courts.

At the same time, the spread of permitless carry changed the map. States, including Texas, Florida, and others, have moved toward allowing lawful adults to carry without obtaining a permit, though permits often still exist for reciprocity or background screening. That creates a strange policy mismatch: a resident may carry at home without a permit but still needs paperwork to travel armed elsewhere.

Congressional politics amplify the issue every time party control feels competitive. Republicans treat reciprocity as a visible pro-gun promise, while Democrats usually frame it as an override of state safety laws. Because neither side sees much room for compromise, the proposal functions as both a serious policy idea and a potent campaign signal.

The firearms community feels these changes directly. Court victories encouraged expectations of broader carry rights, but expanding rights also raised harder questions about training, liability, and public acceptance.

Daniel Whitaker
June 21, 2026
Why the national concealed carry reciprocity debate is coming back and the firearms community is more divided than expected

I see this as a Gordian Knot problem and deserving of the same solution. Shall not be infringed.

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We have officially entered the spaghetti phase of gun control. This is when those in favor of reducing or eliminating Americans’ gun rights introduce all manner of legislative schemes to restrict law-abiding citizens from purchasing, selling, making, and probably soon inheriting firearms, in the hope that something sticks to the wall.

Sometimes it’s a specific firearm, like the AR-15 rifle or a GLOCK pistol. Other efforts target broader categories of firearms such as all semi-automatic firearms.

Thanks to the Supreme Court of the United States and major legal opinions such as Heller and Bruen, gun control efforts have been hitting a brick wall.

That wall was erected in large part through the efforts of organizations like the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the NRA, the Second Amendment Foundation, Firearms Policy Coalition, Gun Owners of America and others. Those groups have taken on cases like these, pushing them up the judicial chain to the highest court in the land.

But alas, that hasn’t stopped state legislatures and candidates for public office from making up, well, effluvia. It’s as if they have a team sitting around just dreaming stuff up, which they clearly do.

Paul Erhardt
June 16, 2026
We’ve Arrived at the Spaghetti Phase of the Gun Control Movement in America – Shooting News Weekly

The same political party did the same type of thing with all the Jim Crow laws, too. No sooner than one law would get struck down they would think of other laws to keep those “uppity black skinned people” under control.

And, of course, nearly all the original gun control laws in this country were originally intended to prevent blacks from being able to defend themselves from the KKK. The political party which likes to think of themselves as progressives is actually very regressive with things like gun control and socialism being the most obvious examples.

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DAY 9 of National Gun Violence Awareness Month. And today I want to talk to every person who has ever told a woman she does not need a gun.

It is a Friday night in December. Waco, Texas. You are alone. The neighborhood is quiet. And then your back door explodes.

Not a knock. A KICK. Two men. Masks. Already inside before your brain finishes processing what just happened.

December 12, 2025. Speight Avenue. We do not know her name — she did not ask for coverage. What we know comes from the police report and the emergency room records. Because that last part matters.

She fired approximately eleven rounds. The two men fled.

Twenty minutes later, a 32-year-old named Antonio Chavez was dropped off at Baylor Scott and White with a bullet in his forearm. He was already on the books for two violations of a protective order and continuous violence against family. The system had already met Antonio Chavez. The system had already given someone a piece of paper to keep him away. He violated it twice. Then he put on a mask and kicked in a woman’s back door.

His bond was set at $276,000. The woman was never charged. Because Texas law is perfectly clear about what you are allowed to do when two masked men kick in your door.

She had a gun. She is alive. Full stop.

Now the numbers. Because this is still a science classroom.

Women are seven to eleven times more likely to use a gun for self-defense than to be murdered. Not safer with a gun — DRAMATICALLY safer. The University of Chicago — not exactly a right-wing institution — calculated that more relaxed carry laws between 1977 and 1992 would have prevented 1,570 murders, 4,177 rapes, and 60,000 aggravated assaults every single year. John Lott found that when concealed carry laws were adopted, rape rates fell measurably, county by county, because predators respond to the possibility of an armed victim the same way every living thing responds to mortal risk — they avoid it.

The Supreme Court already told you in DeShaney v. Winnebago County (1989) and Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales (2005) that the government has no legal obligation to protect you. The protective order Chavez violated twice was a piece of paper. The court issued it. The system recorded his violations. And on a cold December Friday in Waco, the piece of paper was nowhere in that room when the door came in.

The gun was.

The gun control crowd says they want women to be safe. Then they spend June trying to disarm the tool that makes women seven to eleven times more likely to survive an attack. Those two positions cannot coexist in good faith.

She did not ask to be a symbol. She just wanted her door to stay closed. When it did not, she handled it.

But what do I know — I am only a combat medic, a science teacher, and the father of daughters who will know how to handle it too.

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Two protective orders. The paper did not stop him. What did? Tell me.

mike bski @BskiMike22802
Posted on X June 9, 2026

While a piece of paper will not someone from kicking in your door and doing violent things to you, it is not entirely useless. I would be willing to make a sizable bet that when the police and prosecutor were evaluating the situation for people to put in jail a piece of paper rapidly moved the woman to the, “You did good, but you might want to get some training so you can get better hits next time” category.'” The gun moved her to the “alive but seriously shaken” category when she was hovering over the “hospital or morgue” categories.

Do not ever forget that women safety numbers do not matter to the “gun violence prevention” advocates. Even worse is that they will use the shooting of Chavez in their statistics of “gun violence” which needs to be prevented. In their bookkeeping Chavez is the victim.

For those who doubt this notice that they never mention violence crime rates. They only talk about “gun deaths”, “gun crimes”, and sometimes “gun injuries.” There is a reason for this. They have to be deceptive in order to make the narrative work. Deception is part of the culture. Their culture cannot survive without it. Do not let yourself be fooled. Do not be a part of it. And remember Just One Question.