This time last year...

Nebraska gets CCW.

So now we have:

2 unrestricted: Vermont and Alaska

2 Right Denied: Wisconsin and Illinois (Nebraska was previously in this group)

9 May Issue: California, Iowa, New York, Maryland, Delaware,
Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Mass. (A red herring, Jersey is also in
this group and you can't get a CCW)

37 Shall Issue States

And here is what it looked like in 1986:

Twenty years of work, but it's looking good. Wisconsin is next. I hold no hope for New Jersey.

Wisconsin Update:

Today, (9.24.2007) the 31st Circuit Court of Milwaukee County ruled that the Concealed Carry Weapons (CCW) statute was unconstitutional as applied to a particular defendant -- in this case, a pizza delivery driver who carried a gun for self-defense on the job, after being robbed repeatedly in a high crime area.