"The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993, ushered into law by then-Sen. Joe Biden, at the time chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made Form 4473 a key part of background checks for gun purchases mandated by the law.
Lying on the form is a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison. For being a user of unlawful drugs in possession of a firearm, the punishment is up to five years."
Keep in mind this ruling only says Biden did not have the authority to do this under the HEROES Act. It has not ruled if future legislation would be Constitutional or not. How could it?
Sotomayor dissented with this awful remark: "Today, the Court, for the first time in its history, grants a business open to the public a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of a protected class."
Let that sink in. A USSC justice believes in protected classes..
As a New Yorker with a pistol permit I can tell you how crazy this law WAS.. I lived in a county only about 40 minutes from NYC when I got my permit. Full carry, concealed. That meant I could carry most anywhere except NYC, court rooms and school houses. I moved to a county up in northern NY about 40 minutes from Canada and when I transferred my license there, they said they only give out “Hunting, hiking, fishing, range conceal” permits, which means you can only carry during those activities and it must be concealed. If I wanted to carry other times, I had to show cause.
A friend of mine is a PA that works in an ER, constantly getting threatened when he doesn’t prescribe opiates. The judge said that wasn’t good enough cause..
It was totally arbitrary and the gun control nut of a judge we have in our county basically made it impossible.