Front Sight, Front Sight, Front Sight: “May-Issue” Concealed Carry Laws
We’ve been keeping you abreast of the latest legal developments in the Second Amendment, and today we have more news from the Second Amendment Foundation regarding New York’s “may-issue” concealed-carry laws. The below is directly from the Second Amendment Foundation.
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The Second Amendment Foundation today filed an important amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting a challenge of New York State’s restrictive concealed carry permitting scheme by the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association.
SAF is joined in this “friend of the court” brief by several organizations including the New Jersey Second Amendment Society, Buckeye Firearms Foundation, Connecticut Citizens Defense League, Illinois State Rifle Association, Florida Carry, Inc., Grass Roots North Carolina, Louisiana Shooting Association, Tennessee Firearms Association, Maryland Shall Issue, Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, Sportsmen’s Association for Firearms Education, and Virginia Citizens Defense League.
“This case has been a long time coming and it would not be an overstatement that SAF has an intense interest because of our many members in New York and elsewhere that so-called ‘proper cause’ requirements are routinely used to deny law-abiding citizens the ability to carrying firearms for personal protection outside their homes,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “Such laws are arbitrary in nature and they place an absurd level of authority in the hands of local officials and their subordinates to deny citizens their constitutional right to bear arms.”
The Supreme Court has not heard a Second Amendment case in more than a decade, Gottlieb recalled, “and it is high time to consider another.” The last time the high court took on a Second Amendment case was in 2010, which resulted in the victory known as McDonald v. City of Chicago, a case brought by SAF that nullified Chicago’s unconstitutional handgun ban and incorporated the Second Amendment to the states via the 14th Amendment and made this New York case possible. The 35-page brief is submitted by attorneys David H. Thompson and Peter A. Patterson, Cooper & Kirk PLLC, Washington, D.C.
“The Second Amendment should no longer be treated like the ugly stepchild of the Bill of Rights,” Gottlieb observed. “Its language is clear, that the amendment protects not only the right of the individual citizen to keep arms, but to bear them, and that right extends beyond the confines of one’s home. A right limited to someone’s home is no right at all, and the court now has an opportunity to make that abundantly clear, settling an important constitutional issue once and for all.”
If the Supreme Court follows the Constitution they will nullify the “May issue” laws in all states that have them. That will piss of the democrats which is always a good thing. From the things the democrats are thinking of dumping on this country they are nothing but thieves and douche bags.
👍 Morelegal guns…less crime!!
I am not confident in the Court in its current form doing its sworn duty in upholding the law. If this court was willing to do its duty, it would not have refused to hear the election fraud cases brought to it; these are among the most important cases ever brought before the high court and the court refused to even hear them, using frivolous excuses.
So do not get too excited about this case. Until loyal Americans take control of the federal government and remove the traitors from the Court, the law will not likely be upheld.
Make our guns illegal and we will just call them Undocumented.
It seems that’s how they get around the laws that our lawmakers just can’t seem to be bothered to enforce.
Dave H
Agree
The Justice system is weak, doesn’t enforce laws to keep criminals locked up,. That’s why All this Crimes are happening.,and Parents should be held accountable for their children’s action ,too many teenagers are getting Killed, , and they are the future generation. Discipline starts at home..
I truly wish “everyone” meaning both the law makers and people supporting the 2nd Amendment would focus on the real problem at hand, keeping guns away from those that will deliberately cause harm. Here is a quote from a 97 yo mother, life long Democrat and someone who has never fired a gun that makes this point. “Any idiot knows it’s not the gun that kills. It’s the person whose finger is on the trigger.”
We already have a PLETHORA of laws, both Federal and State, that prohibit the possession of firearms by convicted felons, and persons otherwise prohibited from carrying/using a firearm. Add to that the federal laws covering possession of a firearm during the commission of another crime, (ie possession of narcotics with intent to distribute.) What we seem to be LACKING is the willingness to ENFORCE the penalties associated with these laws. And now….we are having difficulty finding ANYONE willing to enforce them at the street level, particularly involving persons of color. And so here we are…again. Perhaps ANTIFA can help us out.
The Right to Keep and Bear Arms is clearly stated in the 2nd Amendment. But even further and more importantly this is an Inherent Right and essential to the Right of Self Defense. The Soopreme Court only can Confirm this Right not “Rule’ on it’s legitimacy. But of course we currently live in the USSA of a Corrupt Feral Gov as flagrantly and constantly exposed by the tyranny of the DOJ, FIB, ATF, IRS, and ETC where We must ask our Elitists for their permissions.