Posted on 11/05/2022 5:31:37 AM PDT by MtnClimber
As we approach the 2022 midterms, Democrats are once again pushing the gun-control button.
Two trends that are reflected in recent state and federal gun legislation. One trend stems from the New York State Rifle and Pistol Ass’n Inc. v Bruen ruling in June, the other from the New York’s Concealed Carry Improvement Act passed in response to Bruen.
Bruen’s Domino Effect
In Bruen, the U.S. Supreme Court found that New York State’s concealed carry law was unconstitutional because it required “proper cause” for an individual to obtain a concealed carry permit. As a result, a new precedent was set for Second Amendment legislation, with many states’ gun control laws now challenged. The National Association for Gun Rights has sued several states and cities to end their assault weapons bans, including the Illinois cities of Highland Park and Naperville along with the states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Colorado, and Hawaii. The Connecticut Citizens Defense League, along with two former Connecticut corrections officers and a firearms instructor, have also filed a lawsuit against the Connecticut assault weapons ban. In Colorado, a judge recently blocked an assault weapons ban following a lawsuit filed by the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners. Bruen was also cited by a judge in West Virginia who abolished a federal law requiring firearms to have serial numbers, and by a judge in Texas who ruled that citizens under criminal indictment retain the right to bear arms.
New York’s Concealed Carry Improvement Act’s Domino Effect
However, Bruen’s no-tolerance stance did not deter Governor Kathy Hochul in her push for more gun control legislation. In July, Hochul signed the Concealed Carry Improvement Act (CCIA). This legislation makes it illegal to carry a gun in public places such as churches, schools, subways, and Times Square. It also makes issuing concealed carry permits dependent
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SCOTUS needs to start issuing contempt citations to members of legislatures who openly defy their rulings with crap like this.
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That is a great idea.
Lower courts issue hold people in contempt all the time. Why not SCOTUS?
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The broad overview is that the good guys have slowly been winning this fight.
Constitutional Carry is the law in half of all states now and more look set to pass it in the next few years.
“intermediate scrutiny” and “rational basis” and the “balancing test” Leftist judges had used as excuses to violate American’s 2nd amendment rights have all been blown away. The original meaning based on historical accounts at the time the 2nd amendment was ratified is now the only basis for deciding 2nd amendment cases. That does not support any gun grabbing. - this is the death of magazine bans, so-called “assault” weapon bans, California’s list which is really a gun ban in slow motion, bans on concealed carry in all sorts of places like NY has done, good character required to get a concealed carry permit - these laws will all fall now.
Finally thanks to refusing to enforce immigration law, defunding the police and letting violent criminals out of jail, the Democrats have managed to create millions of new gun owners. Any tiny bit of progress they thought they had made in the last 20 years thanks to Bloomberg’s billions, has been blown away. Thanks idiots!
Rule that the state of New York acted in bad faith in defiance of Supreme Court rulings in order to deny Americans their civil rights. Strike down the latest gun grabs and rule that as a result of their bad faith, they now must obtain pre-clearance to pass any gun legislation at all.
SCOTUS has done exactly this before when they believed states were acting in bad faith, defying SCOTUS rulings and denying Americans their constitutional rights. This would be entirely in keeping with that precedent. NY does not get back its power to regulate guns in any way, until a “suitable period” of at least a generation or two. That again would be keeping with precedent. It would also deter other gun grabbing states like Hawaii, California, Maryland, Connecticut, Massachusetts, etc.
I was unaware of such precedent.
Thanks.
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SCOTUS placed all kinds of curbs on Southern states for various voting laws, electoral maps etc in the 1960s due to the history of Jim Crow laws and has only somewhat eased that iron grip 50-60 years later.
OK. Do the same to NY and other Leftist Yankee states which routinely violate Americans’ gun rights and defy SCOTUS rulings to do so. The 2nd Amendment is part of the bill of rights after all......
The best part is thinking about how much the gun grabbing Leftists would howl if SCOTUS did that.
I like it.
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FYI
with any luck, gov hoochie will be gone... big wish i know
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