{"id":3172,"date":"2023-01-02T03:20:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T09:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3172"},"modified":"2023-03-14T03:17:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T08:17:35","slug":"people-can-now-carry-guns-without-a-license-in-half-of-americas-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3172","title":{"rendered":"<strong>People Can Now Carry Guns Without A License In Half Of America&#8217;s States<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People Can Now Carry Guns Without A License In Half Of America&#8217;s States<\/p>\n<p>Alabamians woke up Sunday with the right to carry a gun without a license.<br \/>\nThe change, implemented by a state law passed last year, marked a major milestone: half of America\u2019s 50 states now allow people to carry handguns without first seeking a permit.<br \/>\nThirteen years ago, only two states \u2014\u00a0Vermont and Alaska\u00a0\u2014 allowed its residents the unfettered right to carry a gun, relying on the Constitution\u2019s Second Amendment as a blanket permit for all.<br \/>\nSince 2010, however, nearly two dozen states have followed suit, with 11 of them passing permitless carry laws in the last three years alone.<br \/>\nThe growing movement has chalked up wins in state legislatures with remarkable speed, drawing cheers from gun rights advocates while raising fears among reformers that the changes will lead to more guns in the street \u2014 and likely more violence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/people-now-carry-guns-without-104501617.html\">Yahoo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People Can Now Carry Guns Without A License In Half Of America&#8217;s States Alabamians woke up Sunday with the right to carry a gun without a license. The change, implemented by a state law passed last year, marked a major milestone: half of America\u2019s 50 states now allow people to carry handguns without first seeking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1903,3296,3295,1255,1198],"class_list":["post-3172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-alabama","tag-carry-guns","tag-gun-laws","tag-people","tag-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7457,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions\/7457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}