Sheesh! I looked at the score card. They start out with their pie-in-the-sky wish list of mostly unproven items they deludedly think would reduce gun injuries/fatalities then rate the states from it! Looks like they'd prefer to have a gestapo type setup. Is this a big smoke screen to cover up the current scandal where our Federal Government (BATFE) ENCOURAGED gun shop owners to make what would have been illegal gun sales to ineligible buyers in some stupid hope to trace the drug cartels in Mexico? Why isn't Brady joining NRA and Sen Grassley in demanding an explanation of that totally screwed up operation? Do something useful Brady! Today even NPR, All Things Considered aired a piece on it. And Eric Holder claims he never knew it was going on! Incompetence seems rampant or did they get caught trying to create the problem some anti gun folks have claimed to exist on the US Mexico border? Interesting too that the Brady release does not cite a single source to back up any of the claims they make as well as obfuscating the facts for a number of states.

We aren't a "do nothing on gun violence" state. We are a "get rid of laws that have no documentable effect on crime and violence and only burden the law-abiding" state.

It's telling that the Brady Campaign (a non-grassroots, funding dependent of the Joyce Foundation with less than 50,000 members) don't show the crime rates in those states alongside their scores.

If you do that on your own you'll find there's no correlation between low crime rates and having a high Brady score.

If you google the past few year's rankings and look at the criteria they use you'll find they've had to move the emphasis as truly "common sense" gun laws (shall-issue carry, Castle/stand-your-ground, etc) have swept the states with outdated restrictions on possession and purchase being rescinded left and right.

Every year as they fail to roll back, much less stop, the march of freedom and rationality they have to shift focus to a new bete noir to assemble some positive scores for their rankings and latch on to a fresh media controversy for their same tired "blood in the streets" lies.

They seem now to be shifting to "permitless carry" laws, like those in VT, AK and AZ, (WY will join the group as of July 1 and MT has a bill on the governor's desk right now, UT and several others just barely didn't pass this year, most due to legislative shenanigans) and "campus carry", allowing the same law-abiding carriers who carry off-campus among their fellow students and staff with no negative results to do so on campus as well, (yes this year most of the laws are being narrowly defeated, often through procedural tricks, but they continue to gain support in legislatures across the country).

In a few years enough states will remove those fruitless restrictions and the Brady's will move the bar once again, though at that point I'm not sure what will be left they can hang their false Cassandra warnings onto.