New BROWN LEATHERETTE EDITION for 2015–2017
The first major cover change in 25 years -- the famous blue book turns BROWN! Every change to Arizona gun laws since 1989
is included in one easy guide.
Summaries of the changes back through 1996 can be found linked below.
Hunting guides, Ballot honesty, Gun-transfer preemption, rights restoration, Comitatus law -- rogue government agencies and agents can be punished,
additional preemption protection, drinking for armed retired police, more.
Print it all on one sheet of paper to insert in your book.
These updates below apply to the former blue cover editions
(If you have the BLUE it's time to RENEW)
COMPREHENSIVE 2014 UPDATE
Download a sheet you can insert into your book with all the changes
for 2012 through 2014 -- everything in the list just below, plus the
handful of changes for military personnel, shooting on private land
(including BB guns and similar), some hunting adjustments, arming judges,
and requiring timely NFA certifications, plus a note on Post Office bans
(how the feds snuck through a ban despite the obvious statutes).
MAIN UPDATES FOR 2013 (includes 2012 too)
Download a sheet you can insert into your book with all the changes
listed below for 2012, and the two small changes made in 2013 --
amendments to prevent authorities from melting down guns held by police,
and added protection to stop authorities from creating gun registries
of innocent individuals in the false name of stopping crime.
The 25th edition remains the most current edition in print.
MAIN UPDATES FOR 2012
These changes to Edition 25 take effect August 2, 2012.
Amendments to the hunting laws, including firearm possession while hunting,
easier for military to qualify for hunting papers, new felony for firearm trafficking,
out-of-state felonies redefined, localities can no longer destroy firearms they obtain,
and must make such guns available for resale to the public, one new law about
private troops discovered. The link above gives you a pdf file you can
fit into your book. To read the update online click here.
MAIN UPDATES FOR 2011
These changes take effect on July 20, 2011.
A constitutional amendment will be voted on in 2012 to prevent
frivolous lawsuits by felons; Protection for use of deadly force improved,
Preemption strengthened for hunting, DPS removed from CCW class approvals,
Rights restoration expanded, Game refuge gun ban repealed,
Our official state firearm is the Colt Single-Action Army Revolver.
MAIN UPDATES FOR 2010
These changes went into effect on 7/29/10.
Additional statutes and conditions will be posted soon.
Constitutional Carry, Firearms Freedom, Preemption, Knife Preemption
Record-keeping ban, hunting and fishing ballot measure, more.
UPDATES FOR 2009
CCW in liquor-licensed places OK without drinking, unless no-gun signs;
Domestic violence
protection extended to romantic or sexual partners;
Parking lots cannot
ban firearms locked in vehicles,
with exceptions;
Defensive display of a firearm in self defense defined and protected; more
Get 2007, 2008 and 2009 as a printable insert for your book.
DETAILED UPDATES FROM 2007 & 2008 LEGISLATURE 2007: No fingerprints on CCW renewal; no Katrina-style gun confiscations; localities can't disarm police;
forgetting to carry permit a petty offense; DNA samples; more. 2008: Illegal alien gun ban; airport carry OK
outside sterile areas; CCW for certain former felons; CCW training good for 5 years; massive overhaul of
sentencing guidelines with renumbering of familiar statutes, increased and decreased sentences spelled out,
arbitrary "dangerous offense" an optional charge prosecutors can use as a plea-bargaining tool; more.
PRELIMINARY UPDATES FROM THE 2007 & 2008 LEGISLATURE Enacted after the 23rd Edition was released
2007: Emergency gun confiscation banned, renewal fingerprints eliminated, more
2008: CCW renewal-class requirement dropped; Rights restoration improved, more
UPDATES FROM THE 2006 LEGISLATURE
Enacted after the 22nd Edition was released
Burden of Proof corrected and Castle Doctrine strengthened, more
• The history of Arizona's gun laws, beginning before statehood • This thoroughly researched article by Tucson activist Ken Rineer
documents
how the state has no legitimate delegated authority to regulate
discreet carry of firearms, and how the state usurped powers
it does not and should not have.
Copyright 1997-2011 Alan Korwin •
BLOOMFIELD PRESS
