Publix grocery stores the most locations of any grocery chain in Florida — with 907 stores across 252 cities in 2025. . . . . Florida began allowing open carry on Sept. 25 after an appeals court overturned the state’s ban on openly carrying firearms, deeming it...
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The Danger of Carrying Openly, make sure you watch to the end
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eOh49U7LM4 Here is one danger of carrying a gun openly. Please watch the video until the end. There are other problems similar to what uniformed police officers face. There is a bigger benefit to carrying concealed. The evidence on the...
Media Bias: The news media keeps calling the riots that destroyed poor parts of Kenosha “protests,” completely ignored is that Rittenhouse was in the poor, minority area of the city to help out
The attached video from ABC, CBS, & NBC Evening News broadcasts on November 19th to announce the verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse case shows a typical example of the media calling the rights "protests" and avoiding saying anything about Rittenhouse being attacked...
34 States allow Open Carry without a permit in all (33 states) or virtually all (Iowa) their state
After many years with no real change in state laws on open carry, following the move to Constitutional Carry, there has been a significant increase in the number of states that allow open carry without a permit. Just in the last couple of years you have seen changes...
Retail Store Policies on allowing guns in stores
Only one retailer bans guns in their stores. While a number don't allow open carrying of guns, that is not the most important type of carrying of guns (see a piece we wrote earlier on open versus concealed carry). Retailers with no gun restrictions No. 16 TJX...
CPRC in the Austin (Texas) Statesman: “Open Carry versus Campus Carry: what should be the priority”
John Lott's piece in the Austin (Texas) Statesman's is as follows: With well over 700,000 concealed handgun permit holders in Texas, there is a good chance that someone next you in a grocery store or restaurant is carrying a concealed handgun. But some are only...
CPRC at Fox News: Media feeding frenzy over open carry guns in restaurants much ado about nothing
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: The NRA’s strong statement reprimanding a few people for carrying long guns into restaurants was bound to get media attention. Bloomberg’s Moms Demand Action and much of the media quickly jumped in and described...






