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Front Sight, Front Sight, Front Sight: “May-Issue” Concealed Carry Laws

My “proper cause” is the Constitution.
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 importantย amicus briefย with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting a challenge of New York Stateโs restrictive concealed carry permitting scheme by the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association.
SAF is joined in this โfriend of the courtโ 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, Sportsmenโs Association for Firearms Education, and Virginia Citizens Defense League.
โThis 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 โproper causeโ requirements are routinely used to deny law-abiding citizens the ability to carrying firearms for personal protection outside their homes,โ said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. โSuch 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.โ
The Supreme Court has not heard a Second Amendment case in more than a decade, Gottlieb recalled, โand it is high time to consider another.โ 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 Chicagoโs 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.
โThe Second Amendment should no longer be treated like the ugly stepchild of the Bill of Rights,โ Gottlieb observed. โIts 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 oneโs home. A right limited to someoneโs 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.โ
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