HoosierQ
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So I live in Indiana where we score a 9 out of 100. So that's good. Some states are lower like KY. In Indiana we don't have open carry...gotta have a permit to carry a handgun no matter how you carry it. Of course we are a "shall issue" state so nobody really cares. Little things like that score us Brady points...but life in Indiana is good.
What gets me is how California is number 1 by huge margin with 79 points I think. And yet, undoubtedly the least firearm friendly state in the Union, Illinois, is 9th with only 28 points. I mean in Chicago, you simply cannot own a handgun...nobody, now way, no how...right? No where in Illinois, can you carry a handgun...nobody, no way, now how...right? I don't think you can legally own any AR15 in Chicago...maybe anywhere in Illinois.
I understand that in California, for example, as long as you have to use a tool to remove a magazine, a regular old AR-15 is legal with all the acoutrements and even a 30-round mag...as long as you need an allen wrench or something to remove that 30 round mag.
So my question is, up there at the top, above Illinois...California, New Jersery, etc, is it really actually harder to exercise your RKBA than Illinois...where it seems that you may not actually have a RKBA? Or have states like California pandered to Brady by "running up the score" with this law or that? I mean I know it is really bad in California (no lead ammo all over the place, the tool removable magazine thing etc), but I am just so surprised that Illinois, which would seem to me the worst place in the USA to exercise the RKBA, scores 9th instead of first.
Is the Brady rating really a good way to tell what's what? Especially up at the top. You gotta figure if you score in the single digits that your in pretty good shape.
What gets me is how California is number 1 by huge margin with 79 points I think. And yet, undoubtedly the least firearm friendly state in the Union, Illinois, is 9th with only 28 points. I mean in Chicago, you simply cannot own a handgun...nobody, now way, no how...right? No where in Illinois, can you carry a handgun...nobody, no way, now how...right? I don't think you can legally own any AR15 in Chicago...maybe anywhere in Illinois.
I understand that in California, for example, as long as you have to use a tool to remove a magazine, a regular old AR-15 is legal with all the acoutrements and even a 30-round mag...as long as you need an allen wrench or something to remove that 30 round mag.
So my question is, up there at the top, above Illinois...California, New Jersery, etc, is it really actually harder to exercise your RKBA than Illinois...where it seems that you may not actually have a RKBA? Or have states like California pandered to Brady by "running up the score" with this law or that? I mean I know it is really bad in California (no lead ammo all over the place, the tool removable magazine thing etc), but I am just so surprised that Illinois, which would seem to me the worst place in the USA to exercise the RKBA, scores 9th instead of first.
Is the Brady rating really a good way to tell what's what? Especially up at the top. You gotta figure if you score in the single digits that your in pretty good shape.