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Thanks for all of your comments folks! It makes it a lot easier to keep fighting, especially when you encounter a legislative session like this one.

I speak at continuing legal education seminars for attorneys, primarily in odd-numbered years so I can provide a legislative update on guns and self-defense issues. I'm writing my presentation now and it's remarkable the difference in the number of bills I covered in 2013 (16) compared to the 2015 session (8). Granted, open-carry and campus-carry consumed a tremendous amount of political capital and that's why we never want to have more than two flagship bills. This is especially true when those bills generate huge emotional opposition by people who don't mind lying to achieve their political goals. Political capital is to legislative efforts as water is to a garden. Some plants die because others get the water and bills die because others get the political capital.

Thanks again folks and you need to stay in the fight too!
Chas.

Thanks for the comments folks, I appreciate them more than you know. Alice, Tara and I are a team and it took a lot of work this session. As I've said before, you rarely if ever want to have more than two flagship bills in one session and combing open-carry with campus-carry was a tall mountain to climb.

I too want to thank Members who posted bill updates when I was too busy to do so. This helped our folks to keep up with what was going on and that is one of the prime reasons the Forum exists. Thanks also to people who responded to calls-to-action; without you doing so we would not have an impact on bills related to gun rights and self-defense rights. As you saw, I don't sent them lightly or too frequently, but only when they can make a difference.

Thanks again,
Chas.