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3.) "shall-issue" requires police to issue permits if the applicant meets certain criteria such as:

 * 1) ====minimum age====
 * 2) ====no prior felony convictions====
 * 3) ====no recent commitments to a mental hospital====

4.) "unrestricted-carry" where no permit is required.
A 2008 [|Gallup poll] revealed that 28% of the population supported a total ban on handguns — the lowest level since the poll was first taken in 1959 (when support for a total ban was 60% of the population). This same poll revealed that 49% of Americans in 2008 preferred more restrictive gun laws, compared to 78% when the question was first asked in the 1990 version of the poll. A 2009 [|CNN] poll found even lower levels of support for gun laws: in this poll, only 39% favored more restrictive laws.(says gun politics on ask.com encyclopedia under title united states paragraph 2). 48 states have passed laws allowing citizens to carry certain concealed firearms in public, either without a permit or after obtaining a permit from state or local law enforcement.

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