Now government requires 'GOOD REASON' to carry concealed gun

WND ^ | November 3, 2019 | WND staff

[Perseverando]

The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to review a case against Maryland's requirement that applicants for concealed-carry permits provide "good and substantial reasons" to fulfill their request.

Gun-rights groups that have filed a brief in the case, contending the law is unconstitutional, say it could have widespread impact.

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The court, said Second Amendment Foundation founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb, "could define the parameters of bearing arms outside the home, and that will impact restrictive laws in several states where carry permits or licenses are strictly regulated, which translates to nearly impossible to get."

SAF was joined by the Firearms Policy Coalition Inc., Firearms Policy Foundation, California Gun Rights Foundation and the Madison Society Foundation in filing the brief through Sacramento attorney Joseph G.S. Greenlee.

The 27-page asks the court to decide "to what extent the right to bear arms applies beyond the home," because the question "has deeply divided lower courts."

It notes that the D.C. and Seventh Circuits held that the right applies just as strongly outside the home as inside the home, while the First and Second Circuits determined that the right likely applies outside the home, but in a weaker form.

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Meanwhile, the Third and Fourth Circuits declined to decide whether the right exists outside the home, and the Ninth and Tenth Circuits held that the right to bear arms does not protect concealed carry.

"Clearly," Gottlieb said, "the lower courts need definitive guidance on this important constitutional issue. What other constitutionally enumerated fundamental right applies only within the confines of the home? It is time the high court takes up this issue to determine whether the Second Amendment vigorously protects a right, or allows states to treat

[Perseverando]

The liberal elitist gun grabbers refuse to stop their attack on the Second Amendment. As the Second Amendment goes, so goes the First Amendment, the Constitution and America.

[sauropod]

Welcome to the People’s Republic of Maryland.

The Land of Peasant Living.

[Dr. Sivana]

‘cause.

[null and void]

[bk1000]

“Because it is my right as an American citizen to carry a weapon.”

“Sorry, not a good enough reason. Next.”

[rktman]

Is there a blank to fill in for the reason? If so, I’d think writing “Baltimore” would work.

[Psalm 73]

“Justice” John Roberts will decree that the 2nd Amendment means whatever the state of Maryland says it does.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

What is wrong with these people? What is so hard to understand about the Constitution? It was written by highly educated people who spoke better English than most Americans today. — Oh, I think I just answered my own question.
 

[rigelkentaurus]

The entire Constitution is under massive attack by the left. Who could have imagined 50 years ago, that the left would feel so emboldened as to directly attack the first amendment as they are doing now.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

#7: "John Roberts will decree that the 2nd Amendment means whatever the state of Maryland says it does."

Ugh. So right. That was my first thought.
 

[Enterprise]

Other than the constitutional issue, my question would be who decides what a "good reason" would be? Two people can look at the same set of facts. One might accept the request and the other might reject the request.

[Billthedrill]

"Good and substantial"? "Good" meaning "good for some pathetic tool of the bureaucratic state", and "substantial" meaning how much he or she is bribed with? This one is yet another of those "it's whatever I say it is" little bites out of liberty that the apparatchiks use to accumulate power they were specifically denied under the Constitution. The authors of it deserve prison time for violating the public's civil rights.

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

The best reason I can think of for carrying concealed IS the government.

5.56mm

[Wallace T.]

Typical Leftist tactics. In the 1950s and 1960s, they were all for civil liberties and opposed to anti-Communist blacklists and to restrictions on pornography. Now that their power has increased, their goal is to curb the speech of their enemies. The Bolsheviks did the same flip in Russia after Lenin became the dictator.

[rellimpank]

---that is exactly why the NRA has been so careful about what cases are taken to any court-

-for most of my early lifetime virtually any federal court would have held that there is no "right" to "bear arms"--

[bert]

The reason?

The need to kill attacking oppressors

[frank ballenger]

So the 2nd Amendment will be upheld except when it isn’t upheld. Makes sense./s

[JayAr36]

Because when seconds count the police are just minutes away.

[I want the USA back]

The end goal of these people is to take guns from non-violent people and leave them in the hands of violent criminals.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Self defense is a self evident reason.