{"id":7454,"date":"2018-10-10T13:48:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T20:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2018\/10\/10\/arizona-still-number-one-for-gun-owners\/"},"modified":"2018-10-10T13:48:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T20:48:55","slug":"arizona-still-number-one-for-gun-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2018\/10\/10\/arizona-still-number-one-for-gun-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Still Number One for Gun Owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/six-eighty-six-plus.jpg' title='S&#038;W 686'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/six-eighty-six-plus.jpg' alt='S&#038;W 686' width='250' class='right' \/><\/a>Yesterday, I learned about Arizona&#8217;s status as the best state for gun owners. The <strong>Arizona Citizens Defense League<\/strong> notified us about the <strong>Guns and Ammo Magazine<\/strong> survey via email and FecesBook&reg;.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: Damsel&#8217;s Smith &#038; Wesson 686 in .357 Magnum. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For the SIXTH consecutive year <strong>Guns and Ammo magazine<\/strong> has rated Arizona as the #1 state for gun owners.  The ratings are published in the November 2018 issue.  Click <a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/guns_and_ammo201811a.pdf' title='G&#038;A Rating (PDF)'>here<\/a> to view a copy of the ratings.<\/p>\n<p>The AZCDL email contained the following information:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>States were measured by the following criteria:<\/p>\n<p>&#9654; Right To Carry<br \/>\n&#9654; Treatment of &#8220;modern sporting rifles&#8221; (ARs, AKs, etc.)<br \/>\n&#9654; Magazine capacity limits<br \/>\n&#9654; Castle Doctrine\/Stand Your Ground<br \/>\n&#9654; Treatment of NFA firearms<br \/>\n&#9654; Miscellaneous issues such as constitutional protections, preemption, restrictions on gun or ammo purchases, CCW reciprocity, availability of places to shoot, etc. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Arizona scored a perfect 10 in the numerically rated categories and a YES in the Magazine Capacity Unlimited column. The citizens of our state owe our great score to the relentless efforts of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcdl.org\/index.html\">Arizona Citizens Defense League<\/a> who, since 2005, have organized and lobbied for our Constitutional and God-given rights to self defense.<\/p>\n<p>Open the <a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/guns_and_ammo201811a.pdf' title='G&#038;A Rating (PDF)'>G&#038;A Report (.pdf) <\/a> to see where your state is ranked by Guns and Ammo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I learned about Arizona&#8217;s status as the best state for gun owners. The Arizona Citizens Defense League notified us about the Guns and Ammo Magazine&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,45,55,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-firearms","category-second-amendment","category-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}