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Posted on 09/18/2016 12:13:28 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit is scheduled to hear arguments in two cases on Tuesday that present questions at the bleeding edge of Second Amendment law: Is there a constitutional right to carry a handgun outside the home? And if so, how much can the government limit that right?
The court is weighing a Washington, D.C., law that requires anyone seeking a license to carry a concealed gun to show “good reason to fear injury.”
Living in a high-crime neighborhood isn’t reason enough, according to rules put out by D.C.’s chief of police. Applicants have to show “a special need for self-protection distinguishable from the general community,” under the 2014 law.
Four federal regional appeals courts have upheld similar requirements in California, Maryland, New Jersey and New York. But they offered varying views of the Second Amendment’s strength in public.
The Supreme Court has yet to review a concealed-carry case since its landmark 2008 ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller that recognized an individual’s right to possess a gun for self-defense. But the justices could be tempted to act if the D.C. Circuit were to strike down the District’s law, creating a split, legal experts say.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Can you provide a synopsis of the article for those of us non-WSJ-Subscribers?
Not infringe would seem to be a highjump level hurdle for a native English speaker.
My grandfathers, many times removed, used to get up in the morning, put their unloaded handguns in a lock box and ride their steed to town. Long trips were worse. Most of them wandered what good the 2A actually was.
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ridiculous....”the right of the people to keep AND BEAR arms shall not be infringed”...most of the battles we had to fight to secure our liberties were NOT fought in the kitchens of Brithish North America...rather, battles are usually fought in the streets...valleys.hills.etc
don’t these idjits have to take junior high school history, for goodness’ sakes?
They really aren't "idjits". They are The King's Ministers and they know precisely what they are saying, advocating, and doing.
i stand corrected, thanks
The idea is to leave everyone in DC as a soft, readily accessible target. We went into DC this morning for church. I don’t for one second assume that no one in that church was armed. I hope not. I hope several parishioners were armed.
Used to know black women who carried knives in their shoes to walk to the bus and to work, fearful of the thugs who were free to roam, and who also were quite free to disregard any gun bans.
Just click the first link in this google search and let google pay for it...
https://www.google.com/search?q=Federal+Appeals+Court+to+Hear+Two+Cases+Challenging+D.C.+Gun+Law&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
There is a constitutional “right of the people to keep and bear arms” and that right has the highest level of legal protection provided to any of our God-given rights: “shall not be infringed”. Under the correct and most natural reading of the Bill of Rights, all laws restricting gun ownership (keeping arms) or carrying guns (bearing arms) are unconstitutional, and even strict scrutiny is not a sufficient basis to excuse laws that restrict this most fundamental of all rights.
Here’s the article without the wall
Re Living in a high-crime neighborhood isn’t reason enough, according to rules put out by D.C.’s chief of police.
Do you need to be incapacitated or dead first? What is the effing logic behind that?
We all know there is none.
I thought this was decided in a 5-4 Supreme Court decision a few years ago.
What; you really thought that the TRANSI/PROG/LIB/DEMO/SOCIALIST/COMMUNIST/LEFT was going to accept that ruling without trying to punch holes in it, or get it overturned by a LIBERAL COURT APPOINTEE?
The elitist enemies of the PEOPLE never change, they just change tactics.
>I thought this was decided in a 5-4 Supreme Court decision a few years ago.
And here I thought it was ‘settled’ ~1776
I’d say, courts wish to have the same RE-settled, just keep it up
They believe that the only time you actually need a gun is when you have one pointed at you. THEN they will concede that you have a RKBA.
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