Explore State Laws Related to Alcohol and Firearms

State laws related to firearms and alcohol vary widely. Below you can explore how being actively intoxicated can affect a person's ability to legally carry or buy guns in the moment, how a history of chronic misuse of alcohol affects one's ability to get a carry permit, how states use place-based regulations to restrict guns at venues like bars, and how states allow a record of alcohol misuse to be considered in the issuance of red flag orders.

Chip Brownlee for The Trace / Sources: State laws, Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions, and Giffords