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If by "some", you mean "most", and if by "most", you mean "all but one." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concealed_carry_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedi

• qwerty_asdf 13y ago
  From your link: Among U.S. states, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Vermont and Wyoming allow residents to carry a concealed firearm without a permit. These states also allow the open carry of a handgun without a permit. I count five.
  • nthj 13y ago
    Ah—my misunderstanding/miscommunication. In Alaska, for example, it wouldn't be against the law to normally carry a firearm, and thus it would be entirely believable that someone left a firearm in their backpack. In California, it wouldn't be: if the guy doesn't have a concealed handgun license, he wasn't able to legally carry the gun outside of his house, much less into the airport. The "I got careless" argument makes way less sense.
• jlgreco 13y ago
  Several states have permissive open carry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OpenCarryUnited_States.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OpenCarryUnited_States.png Even if they were concealed carrying it without a license, the statistic would be "10% of those caught not in Vermont did not have a license to carry the gun in the manner that they were carrying it".