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Wyoming is looking to lend its support to a New Jersey manas challenge to the stateas concealed weapons law.

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Wyoming, one of the most pro-gun states in the nation, is leading a coalition of 19 states asking the U.S. Supreme Court to let them submit a brief supporting a New Jersey man's challenge to our state's concealed weapons law.

To which we say, butt out.

States have broad powers to set gun policy, and in ours, a strong majority supports strict laws. This lawsuit is no special case; dozens of others have lost similar challenges. Most New Jerseyans don’t want to have to worry that the guy they’re fighting with over a parking spot might be packing heat. That’s why you need to show justifiable need to carry a handgun here.

Other states complain that if our policy is upheld, it could threaten their laxer standards. Please. Do they want us meddling in their gun laws? Because they actually do threaten our citizens by making it easier for dangerous people to acquire guns and bring them back East.

Wyoming, where anyone can carry a gun without a license or permit, had the sixth-highest rate of gun deaths per capita in 2010. It supplied the 12th-highest number of crime guns to other states the year before.

So the problem isn’t our laws. It’s yours.

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