Posted on 11/04/2019 10:04:34 AM PST by 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
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“The Bolsheviks did the same flip in Russia after Lenin became the dictator.”
That bears repeating.
It’s been like that here in Jersey forever.
New Jersey calls its permit a “permit to carry a handgun” and is a “may-issue” by law for firearm carry, either openly or concealed, but permits are rarely or never granted to the general populace. Permit applicants must “specify in detail the urgent necessity for self-protection, as evidenced by specific threats or previous attacks which demonstrate a special danger to the applicant’s life that cannot be avoided by means other than by issuance of a permit to carry a handgun.” Then it must be approved by both the township’s police chief and a NJ judge...(WIKI)
“Governments, in the end, become the enemy of the people over which they rule/reign/govern.”
It was ever thus.
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a “Good and SUBSTANTIAL Reason” is : The 2n’d Amendment says people can carry- period!”
The Constitution can answer that.
What’s next, we need good reason to vote? Good reason to write an opinion piece? Good reason to practice my faith? Good reason to have a speedy trial?
Sadly, the Slaughterhouse cases nuked the Privileges and Communities clause...
Every local lefty who babbles against our Second Amendment is a drug abuser. They want their neighbors to be disarmed by the government, and that’s they way that they vote: Democrat.
The addicts’ straight and sober neighbors have things that the addicts can sell in order to buy more drugs. The addicts have pit bulls, knives, stolen firearms and partners in crime.
Do you see?
“They like to read articles written by people fresh from central Asia, who are also exotic and therefore more different than right-wingers.”
Oops. I need to correct that in the proper liberal way.
Liberals like to read articles written by human journalists fresh from central Asia *that* are also exotic and therefore more different than right-wingers.
I forgot to write that instead of who. The word, who, only applies to animals, who are better than humans. You see, animals have rights under our Constitution—not humans.
Duhhhh... Now I need to stop using so many commas, too. Commas are for old, white males. ;D
One of the DPRM justifications is if you make cash deposits for a business greater than 1k every day. They want bank records to back it up.
I would like it if "private security" for the wealthy had no more right to be armed than the lowliest private citizen. And for police officers to be barred from moonlighting as private security/bodyguards.
Thanks for reply.
I agree with the Courts decision in Slaughter-House cases. Since there is no constitutionally enumerated right to sustain their lives through labor, 14A protections did not apply.
[ ] but the butchers argued that the amendment protected their right to "sustain their lives through labor. Slaughter-House Cases
Clarification appreciated.
Being an adult human of sound mind provides that “good and substantial reason.” Any other interpretation is simply tyrannical gobbledygook.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
I am a KMA kinda guy ... signs or no signs
Had a Sheriff pat me on the shoulder once and tell me I needed to conceal a little better... I was in a Bar and he was smiling
Me too. It’s long past time to expose whatever it is that Obama and the Deep State have discovered about Roberts that they’re using for leverage and encourage him to “spend more time with his family.”
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