Article Attempts to Discredit AR Constitutional Carry

By Dean Weingarten

By Dean Weingarten

Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- Act 746 went into effect in 2013. The law was clear at the time, and is clear now. The Democrat Attorney General when the law went into effect, Dustin McDaniel, expressed an opinion about the law which seemed designed to cause confusion about the issue. In the opinion, former AG McDaniel simply ignores the most important change in the law. Here is the relevant section, ignored by McDaniel:

5-73-120. Carrying a weapon.
(a) A person commits the offense of carrying a weapon if he or she possesses a handgun, knife, or club on or about his or her person, in a vehicle occupied by him or her, or otherwise readily available for use with a purpose to attempt to unlawfully employ the handgun, knife, or club as a weapon against a person.

I have placed the change in the law in bold. Four words make all the difference in the world, but it was a change never addressed by former AG McDaniel.

Since then, there have been dozens of open carry walks in Arkansas, and no one has been arrested in those …read more

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