I have a firearm.

I have a firearm. I have a gun, but, well let’s just talk about the firearms for now.

I actually have several firearms. I have a 7mm Mauser rifle, an old shotgun, and a Springfield Model 1911A1 45.

The shotgun was my grandfathers. I was given it when he died. It is a simple single shot weapon he used to hunt small game in the hills of Tennessee as a kid. It was my fathers when he grew up, and now it’s mine.

The Mauser is a bolt action that my father bought when we lived in Alaska many years ago. It was a German military rifle that has had the stock cut down for sport shooting.

But it is the 45 I want to talk about. When I bought it, I also got my Concealed Weapons permit here in Montana. Now let me address this permit for a moment. Montana law is a little different from what I was used to in Georgia. As best I can remember, in order to carry a loaded weapon concealed in my vehicle in Georgia, I would have to have a concealed carry permit. Not in Montana. The requirement to have a permit in Montana only applies to your person. Montana does not restrict the carrying of a loaded weapon, concealed or otherwise in your vehicle.

Notice how I said that. Montana does not restrict. I could have said “Montana law does not require”, or “Montana has no law….”, or any one of a dozen other ways. But I chose those words to make a point. The recent Supreme Court ruling solidified what many of us have held to be true for so long. That we have an individual right to Keep and Bear Arms. Individual Right. To Keep and Bear Arms.

The ink was barely dry on the Supreme Court decision when the Leftists Pinko Fascists Tofu-Farting Liberals started wailing. The same whining little wussies who just last week applauded the SC decision to grant terrorists rights, turned 180 degrees and called the court a bunch of activists! One editorial in a Chicago newspaper opined that we should repeal the 2ND amendment. Hey dumb-ass, how about we repeal the first amendment too? You don’t want me to have a gun, I don’t want you to have pen and paper.

But let’s get back to my statement about RESTRICT. One lawmaker stated that the SC established that it is a right, but now we have to see how much we can restrict that right. RESTRICT THAT RIGHT. Because when it comes down to it, that is what these liberals want to do, restrict our rights. Restricting rights equates to government control. And we all know that the liberals are all about government control.

In Montana, the requirements for a concealed carry permit are pretty simple, and understandable. There is the requisite background check (which has ties to the federal Brady Bill). Fingerprinting. Picture. Short application with the standard are you a felon, are you crazy, do you have sex with farm animals (okay that question wasn’t on there, but I would have still been okay with it.) The most restrictive (there, I said it) part was the requirement for firearms training. This includes Military training, Peace Officer Training, or even Hunter Safety courses. A minimal application fee, and one week later I am every liberals nightmare: a permit toting individual right practicing angry white man.