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Rhode Island Court Rules: States Can Pick Open OR Concealed Carry (But Not Both)

By Jacob Paulsen / August 12, 2025

Federal court rules Rhode Island can restrict open carry if concealed carry is allowed. Major Second Amendment decision affects carry rights nationwide.

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Hundreds Rally Against Assault Weapons Ban at Rhode Island State House

By Jacob Paulsen / March 28, 2025

Hundreds of Second Amendment supporters, wearing yellow shirts, gathered outside the Rhode Island State House in Providence to rally against an assault weapons ban. The demonstration featured a speech from the bill’s sponsor, who acknowledged that the measure was overly broad.

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S10E20: End of Another Year, Many Changes in Laws

By Riley Bowman / December 26, 2024

Riley Bowman and Jacob Paulsen sit down to reflect on the past year and take the opportunity to share with you a summary of many concealed carry and firearm law changes that are relevant. We track this stuff pretty closely, and take our responsibility seriously to keep our followers informed about the laws

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The Status and Styles of Secure Storage Gun Laws

By Jacob Paulsen / June 21, 2024

Last week Governor McKee of Rhode Island signed into law an update to the state’s secure storage gun law. Also this year Colorado updated their secure storage law to extend…

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Rhode Island Governor Signs Ghost Gun Bill Into Law

By Joshua Gillem / June 24, 2020

Providence, Rhode Island — The governor of Rhode Island signed a bill into law on Tuesday morning effectively banning “untraceable ghost guns” in her state as anti-gun organizations cheered. Governor…

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Episode 321: Legislative Updates – Trump’s New ATF Head Pick Pro-Gun?…or is he??

By Riley Bowman / May 31, 2019

Today Riley and Matthew cover the latest stories from around the USA in the firearms and concealed carry communities. Today is our Legislative Updates Edition and we’re talking about some important stories from around the nation.

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Episode 235: Wild Week in America for Self Defense

By Riley Bowman / June 22, 2018

Today Riley and Matthew cover the latest in industry news, legislative updates, and share this week’s top JUSTIFIED SAVE stories from around America. Plus you won’t want to miss this week’s Case of the Week from attorney Andrew Branca of Law of Self-Defense where we get some clarification on when the commission of a crime will or will not bar you from being able to use self-defense.

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Rhode Island’s Religious Leaders Beat Guns Into Plowshares

By Bryan Mcintyre / May 16, 2018

This past Mother’s Day, religious organizations across Rhode Island took a very literal interpretation of the phrase “swords into plowshares.” All across the Ocean State spiritual leaders blessed decommissioned firearms…

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Nevada Drops Rhode Island and Starts to Honor Virginia

By Jacob Paulsen / May 9, 2016

Now, Nevada has ceased to honor the Rhode Island permit but has added reciprocity for the Virginia permit. The Virginia permit is also a very popular non-resident permit since it can be obtained with an online concealed carry course only.

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Minnesota Drops Four States and Adds Eight to Reciprocity List

By Jacob Paulsen / August 11, 2015

In the 2015 legislative session in Minnesota a law passed that changed the requirement for permit reciprocity from the phrase “Substantially similar” to “similar.” Due to this change the Department of Public Safety has re-evaluated the state permits it will honor and has made some significant changes.

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Nevada Drops 2 States and Adds 12 Others

By Jacob Paulsen / June 19, 2015

Earlier this month the Nevada Governor signed into law SB175 which, in addition to other changes, removed the requirement for a state to have “similar training requirements” in order for Nevada to honor their permit. On June 18th Nevada published an updated list of the states whose permits it honors

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