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A permit is when the government steals your rights and rents them back to you
My state no longer requires those restrictions thanks to our legislators and governor who signed it.
We’re in full compliance now
Over the last 100 years, infringements on the exercise of Second Amendment rights have created bureaucracies and a mythology of the usefulness or necessity of government power to dole out those rights to a favored few.
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Weingarten above talks about “government bureaucracies”. But, he misses one point. 90% of “government bureaucracies” are staffed by Democrats. In American History there is no known “government bureaucracy” (i.e. Democrats), involved in controversial regulation, that could demonstrate a historical pattern of fairness and equity to all with THE WORST offenders being our current DOJ bureaucracy and FBI bureaucracy.
In an equitable and sane world, Democrats, always seeking mischief, would not be allowed to occupy more than 40% of available positions in government bureaucracies.
If that one simple fact could be realized, government might possibly be trusted enough to keep guns out of the hands of insane people like the recent tranny shooters and the Las Vegas shooter.
“If the State converts a right (liberty) into a privilege, the citizen can ignore the license and fee and engage in the right (liberty) with impunity.” (Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham, Alabama, 373 U.S. 262)
Free men don’t ask permission.
I firmly believe that no state,county or municipality should be allowed to pass any legislation regulating the manufacture,distribution or possession of firearms.Only the US Congress should be allowed to do so...and any legislation passed by Congress should,of course,be closely scrutinized by the Federal courts.
Correct. The basic premise is true in her opinion. I agree that permitting is an infringement. Then again, merely possessing a permit does not mean one owns a firearm. Much as having a drivers license does not mean one owns a vehicle.
From Wikipedia:
To combat growing criminal violence in certain neighborhoods of New York City, including the assassination attempt on New York City mayor William J. Gaynor and the murder of author David Graham Phillips, Timothy Sullivan led the state legislature to enact the Sullivan Act in 1911. It made the possession of a handgun without a permit a crime, and instituted issuance of concealed carry permits at the discretion of local law enforcement.
The law states that to obtain a permit, the applicant must “demonstrate a special need for self-protection distinguishable from that of the general community or of persons engaged in the same profession”. The state had clarified that this must be a non-speculative need for self-defense as to establish a proper cause to grant a permit.
The New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, along with Robert Nash and Brandon Koch, who failed to obtain a permit in New York state, challenged that law, seeking to make the issue of permits no longer discretionary.
Nash, for example, sought a permit for a handgun after a string of robberies in his neighborhood but was denied as he could not prove a need for self-defense.
The plaintiffs argued that the law and judgments against their permits were flawed; “Good, even impeccable, moral character plus a simple desire to exercise a fundamental right is, according to these courts, not sufficient. Nor is living or being employed in a ‘high crime area.’”
The Sullivan Act is considered the first may-issue public carry law in the United States.
Thomas’ majority opinion, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett, effectively rendered public carry a constitutional right under the Second Amendment. Thomas wrote, “The constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense is not ‘a second-class right, subject to an entirely different body of rules than the other Bill of Rights guarantees.’ We know of no other constitutional right that an individual may exercise only after demonstrating to government officers some special need.”
The Court held: “When the Second Amendment’s plain text covers an individual’s conduct [here the right to bear arms], the Constitution presumptively protects that conduct. The government must then justify its regulation by demonstrating that it is consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation. Only then may a court conclude that the individual’s conduct falls outside the Second Amendment’s “’unqualified command.’”
Justice Alito wrote a separate concurrence to the majority... “Our holding decides nothing about who may lawfully possess a firearm or the requirements that must be met to buy a gun.” Justice Alito also questioned whether a person bent on committing an atrocity such as a mass shooting would be deterred because it would be illegal for him to carry a firearm outside of his home. Alito further pointed out that the recent shooting rampage in Buffalo occurred in New York, and New York’s law had done nothing to stop the perpetrator.
By July 1, 2022, Hochul signed a revised Concealed Carry Improvement Act (CCIA) into law with restrictions on public possession of guns based on the decision from Bruen. The new law removes the old “may-issue” standard that had been challenged, but adds new requirements including classroom training and a background check of the applicant’s social media posts for any red flags. In addition, the law prohibits guns from being carried in sensitive locations that include polling places, schools, and churches, and well as New York’s tourist attractions like Times Square. The law came into effect on September 1, 2022; an initial lawsuit seeking to block enforcement of the law was thrown out due to lack of standing though federal judge Glenn Suddaby did agree the new law may be unconstitutional under the Bruen decision. A second lawsuit, filed by citizens that belonged to Gun Owners of America, led to Judge Suddaby to grant an injunction on the law on October 6, 2022, stating that the law’s full list of locations where public carry was banned was likely indefensible, though the state filed an emergency appeal to the Second Circuit. The Second Circuit lifted the injunction, allowing the law to be enforced, while they reviewed their case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Rifle_%26_Pistol_Association,_Inc._v._Bruen
Permit means permission. Permission is not needed to exercise a right. When you ask for permission you have surrendered willingly, therefore the state assumes that you have a defect in your sovereign status. The state is correct. Any freeman asking for permission to exercise a right is obviously mentally deficient and in need of some sort of regulation.
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Don’t stop there. There is a 10% federal excise tax on all handguns and 11% on all long guns and ammunition, but it’s paid by the manufacturer (or importer), so you never see it on your receipt.
Explain to me how that isn’t the equivalent of a tax to exercise a constitutionally-enumerated right.
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12173
100% in agreement. The so called Brady background check is an infringement on the second amendment. If something is a right, then you don’t need the government’s permission to exercise it. If something is a privilege, then yes you do need to apply for the privilege.
There were no permits to purchase in 1791. There was no background check in 1791. There were no form 4473s. There were no waiting periods. To quote MLK “A right delayed is a right denied.”
The Second Amendment should be the only “permission slip” needed to carry a firearm. Everything else should be considered to be an unconstitutional infringement. I have always held this view.