Posted on 09/27/2021 2:13:25 PM PDT by PROCON
On September 21, the Biden Administration filed an amicus brief in the pending U.S. Supreme Court case of New York Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, supporting New York’s draconian and unconstitutional restrictions on the right to bear firearms in public for self-defense.
This NRA-supported challenge to New York’s “may-issue” licensing scheme for public handgun carry is the first Second Amendment challenge to a firearm law to reach the high court since 2010.
New York’s law presumptively denies the right to bear arms for self-defense unless a license applicant can demonstrate a special need for self-protection that distinguishes the person from the general population.
In practice, this means the rich and well-connected can get unrestricted carry licenses but ordinary people cannot, even if they actually face a greater risk of being violently victimized while going about their daily lives in public. The law effectively nullifies for most New Yorkers what the Supreme Court has already characterized as “the individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation.”
New York’s “may-issue” scheme in fact gives authorities so much discretion that it has fostered a culture of corruption, particularly within the Licensing Division of the New York City Police Department (NYPD). There have been repeated scandals involving the NYPD Licensing Division’s application process, with “facilitators” offering gifts and bribes to licensing personnel to approve or expedite their clients’ applications. In some cases, this has resulted in the issuance of carry licenses to applicants with otherwise disqualifying criminal histories and in criminal convictions for NYPD officers. In other locales, licenses are issued by elected sheriffs, with preference given to political donors and supporters.
(Excerpt) Read more at nraila.org ...
Gun owners really should wake up and unite. If all gun owners voted for only gun supporting candidates the anti-2nd folks could not win elections in most places, even NY.
There are a lot of angry unvaxxed people plus those that did get the jab who are sorry they did ...
Looks like Obama's army is on the march, and not only have we not taken to field, we haven't even began to take the situation seriously.. :(
I pray that the American people wakeup real soon, before its too late...
Even the Supreme Court cannot take away our god given rights.
And now it starts...
... foreign and domestic ...
The handlers include Valerie Jarrett and Jill Biden. Many more, each with their own turf.
Sounds like China has told them to go ahead and start a war - we’ll fight it for you.
Obama was also a puppet. What entities paid Hunter Biden and associates $3.5 billion and who do they work for? Already established that Joe gets 10%, as in $350 million.
Whether this is all by design or not, I have a hard time believing patriotic Americans in ANY number, will forfeit their guns and last hope of defense to an administration such as this. I smell a sweet scent in the air and it’s getting stronger.
Bttt.
5.56mm
You bring up a great point. Most folks who want to talk about this, like that, don’t seem to have grasped the point that if it happens, there’s no going back.
There’s no telling your buddies...Hey, I can be here from 12-4 tomorrow afternoon because my kid has a soccer game and I can come in for a few hours on Saturday morning.
And unlike the first one, where there were definitive sides, what would this be like?
Who’s the bad guy? The cops, the military, all the liberals that actually voted for this? The Democrat and RINO politicians that took part in this and allowed this?
Is it a phone call to your boss.....Hey, I just got into a huge firefight with some guys from the military. I’m ok. I’m just going to be a few minutes late, that’s all. See you soon.
Daily life doesn’t continue as it’s doing now if, God forbid, something kicks off.
Molon Labe!
They still will need to come get them though. Good luck with that.
Of course they plan to seize Second Amendment property from honest, non-violent citizens while intentionally letting violent criminals and the ruling elite keep theirs.
Agree totally plus much evil thrown in.
Should have said, “I want to make sure it stays dead”.
If the Supremes invalidate the 2nd, I suspect that the result would be a very hot war, very quickly.
Been thinking the same for a while now. I live in a suburb of the PDR of Seattle. Not many of my neighbors would back me. Some, but not many. The good news is however, every mile you get away from Seattle the percentage goes up.
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