Nine states show up again and again as the most repressive states in the union of the United States of America. With the occasional exception, these states refuse to honor the Constitution; they have extremely restrictive policies on who may bear arms, they ban common rifles, they ban the ownership of suppressors, and they tend to have high taxes. They are all controlled by the Democratic Party.
The nine most repressive states are California, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island.
Of those nine states, all but Rhode Island have enacted bans on some semi-automatic firearms, usually under the politically defined label of “assault rifles.”
Washington State has also banned certain semi-automatic rifles. Litigation challenging such bans as unconstitutional is moving forward in several states, including Maryland, New York, California, Illinois, and New Jersey. At some point, the Supreme Court will rule on one or more of these cases.
Of the nine repressive states, eight of them have laws that prevent most of the population from exercising their Second Amendment rights, especially the right to bear arms outside of the home.
Of the nine repressive states, eight have “may issue” laws whereby a government official has discretion to deny a carry permit based on his subjective opinion.
In this way, Martin Luther King was denied a carry permit in Alabama in 1956. John Stossel was denied a carry permit in New York City. Illinois is shown as a “shall issue” state. Illinois was forced by the Court of Appeals in the Seventh Circuit to pass a “shall issue” law or risk being forced to become a permitless carry state.
Of the nine repressive states, all but one ban the possession of silencers/suppressors in their state.
Suppressors/silencers are effective safety devices, which are common in Europe and many other countries. The American Suppressor Association maintains a map showing which states ban the legal possession of silencers/suppressors. Maryland does not ban the ownership of suppressors and allows them to be used for hunting. Suppressors/silencers are banned in California, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island.
Now, taxation, of the nine most repressive states, six are in the top ten highest tax states: New York, Hawaii, California, New Jersey, Illinois, and Delaware.
All of the nine most repressive states are Democratic party trifectas, as shown by Ballotpedia. A Democratic party trifecta means both houses of the legislature and the governorship are in the hands of the Democratic party.
A similar situation existed with states in the South when they refused to follow Supreme Court rulings to desegregate public schools. Eventually, under a Republican administration, President Eisenhower enforced the desegregation order in Arkansaw schools. Do not expect a Biden, or any Democratic administration, to use troops to enforce Second Amendment rights in the repressive states. Just as the Democratic party was the party of government power and segregation through the 1950’s, the Democratic party is the party of government power and repression of Second Amendment rights since the Supreme Court rulings in Heller (2008), McDonald (2010), Caetano (2016) and Bruen (2022).
About Dean Weingarten:
Dean Weingarten has been a peace officer, a military officer, was on the University of Wisconsin Pistol Team for four years, and was first certified to teach firearms safety in 1973. He taught the Arizona concealed carry course for fifteen years until the goal of Constitutional Carry was attained. He has degrees in meteorology and mining engineering, and retired from the Department of Defense after a 30 year career in Army Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation.
As a resident of the Soviet of Washington I feel like it’s actually two states in one. This state has 39 counties only 5 or maybe 6 counties are the drivers of the insanity. The city/state rule of Seattle and the two adjoining counties I call Pugetopolis, is where all the infringements are born, those people are mental messes. Paranoid, cognitive dissonance, self loathing and radicalized stupidity describes every single one of them. Because of the infringements statewide and the fact we have FJB as the tyrant pretender-in-chief some online outfitters and Amazon has virtually blocked us from buying anything… Read more »
maryland is listed as a “may issue” state. HOWEVER, the SENSITIVE PLACES makes the LEGITIMATE carry a MAY NOT ISSUE! The DemoKKKratic Communist party members say; “I KNOW WANT IS BEST FOR YOU PESANTS”!! Bow down and worship we “humanist know-it-alls”!
The trifecta caused by decades of election fraud. Democrats need to ALL go to the g@ll0ws for RICO/treason and the party itself permanently banned.
If measure 114 goes through, you can add us to the list.
Nice article Dean as usual! But you forgot the UnConstitutional State, Connecticut. CT put forth a banned rifle list in 1994 then expanded it again in 2013 and again in 2023.
Please visit http://www.ccdl.us and contribute to our lawsuits against the government. The Connecticut Citizens Defense League is trying to restore our civil rights through the courts and legislature.
Paraphrasing Josef Stalin: SCOTUS? How many divisions do they have? “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” — John Adams IOW, our system is designed for a cooperative society where (most) people play by the rules for the benefit of all. What force is built into the system is designed to deflect attacks from without and to control those who do not play by the rules. Which Democrats do we see playing by any rules but their own? Which Democrats do we see supporting SCOTUS and… Read more »