Garner serves as the opening setting in this Christian Science Monitor article about changes in gun restrictions within communities across the country.

Thirty years after a powerful gun-control movement swept the country, Americans are embracing the idea of owning and carrying firearms with a zeal rarely seen since the days of muskets and militias.

A combination of favorable court rulings, grass-roots activism, traditional fears of crime, and modern anxieties about government has led to what may be a tipping point on an issue that just a few years ago was one of America’s most contentious. Gun rights have now expanded to the point where the fundamental question seems not to be “should we be able to carry guns,” but instead is “where can’t we carry them?”

The answer: not very many places.

Frequent readers in this forum will recall recent John Locke Foundation/Federalist Society events focusing on changing standards involving gun rights.