{"id":479,"date":"2026-07-05T11:13:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T11:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=479"},"modified":"2026-07-05T11:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T11:13:22","slug":"crossing-a-state-line-shouldnt-cost-you-right-to-self-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=479","title":{"rendered":"Crossing a State Line Shouldn&#039;t Cost You Right to Self-Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/72\/721216_1_.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Crossing a State Line Shouldn&#039;t Cost You Right to Self-Defense\" title=\"Crossing a State Line Shouldn&#039;t Cost You Right to Self-Defense\" \/><\/div><p><br \/>Imagine a woman driving across state lines alone at night, fearful that her car might break down and leave her vulnerable. Or picture a truck driver hauling valuable cargo across the country. In states such as California, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, and Oregon &#8211; five of the ten states that refuse to recognize concealed handgun permits from other states &#8211; these travelers can find themselves defenseless. Nine states also either deny non-residents permits altogether or make them extremely difficult to obtain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a woman driving across state lines alone at night, fearful that her car might break down and leave her vulnerable. Or picture a truck driver hauling valuable cargo across the country. In states such as California, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, and Oregon &#8211; five of the ten states that refuse to recognize concealed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/72\/721216_1_.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[1016,1013,1014,1017,1015,738],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-cost","tag-crossing","tag-line","tag-selfdefense","tag-shouldn039t","tag-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}