BALTIMORE (AP) — Maryland’s requirement that residents show a “good and substantial reason” to get a handgun permit is unconstitutional, according to a federal judge’s opinion filed Monday.
States can channel the way their residents exercise their Second Amendment right to bear arms, but because Maryland’s goal was to minimize the number of firearms carried outside homes by limiting the privilege to those who could demonstrate “good reason,” it had turned into a rationing system, infringing upon residents’ rights, U.S. District Judge Benson Everett Legg wrote.
“A citizen may not be required to offer a `good and substantial reason’ why he should be permitted to exercise his rights,” he wrote. “The right’s existence is all the reason he needs.”
With the new laws in Kalifornia that took away our right to open carry a gun, there may be a silver lining yet. Since this jacked up state is a “may issue” state, and we can no longer carry a gun openly in public, then maybe this is the window that we needed to get this into the SCOTUS. Our rights as citizens of the USA are constantly trampled on by the left. The left owns this state. We need an intervention from the SCOTUS to fix this now.
In an unusual twist, optimism among California gun enthusiasts stems from recent legislation banning them from openly carrying even unloaded handguns.
By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times
Chuck Michel’s strategy for crime-fighting rests on the element of surprise: Keep the bad guys guessing who’s armed and who’s not.
“If 5% of the ducks could shoot back, you’re not going to go duck hunting,” said the Long Beach lawyer representing many Californians denied concealed weapons permits and, in his view, their constitutional right to self-defense.
For decades, that argument has fallen flat in the courtroom. Judges have routinely held that denying permits to carry loaded firearms in public does not infringe on gun owners’ right to keep and bear arms.
But now, some gun owners hope that courts will soon reverse course and find that they have a right to secretly tote their weapons in public. Ironically, their optimism stems from a piece of gun control legislation that took effect last month and bans them from openly carrying even unloaded handguns.
Courts have upheld local law enforcement officials’ authority to deny concealed weapons permits in part because “you had the opportunity to openly carry an unloaded weapon and in the event of an emergency you can quickly load and defend yourself,” said Adam Winkler, a UCLA law professor and author of “Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America.” “Now that option has been taken off the table.”
Mind your own damn business. In fact, get your freeloaders the hell out of this country while you’re at it. Don’t blame the US for your problems that manifest daily in your shithole of a country.
The murdering assholes in your country’s cartels are the source of your gun problem, not the USA.
Last week, Mexican President Felipe Calderon unveiled a large sign with the English message “No more weapons!” on a Mexican bridge facing El Paso, Texas. Mr. Calderon used the unveiling of this sign to call for additional gun control measures in the United States, including the reinstitution of a ban on modern sporting rifles. Ironically Mexico, which justifiably guards its sovereignty, seems to have no problem dictating to the United States what our domestic firearms laws should be.
While we respect the work of President Calderon to willingly take on his country’s powerful drug cartels, we continue to be disappointed that he, in the name of security, would urge our Congress to reinstitute a failed ban on so-called “assault weapons.”
Semi-automatic rifles, demonized as so-called “assault weapons,” are not machine guns but modern sporting rifles that are used every day by law-abiding Americans for the shooting sports, hunting and home protection. Since 2004, when the Clinton/Gore ‘assault weapons’ ban expired, modern sporting rifles have fast become one of the most popular types of firearms for law-abiding Americans to purchase. And according to a recent survey, nearly half the people buying modern sporting rifles are either current or retired members of the U.S. military or law enforcement.
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.” —Patrick Henry, Speech in the Virginia Convention, June 5, 1788
We the People, by and large, have given up that force, abdicating it through ignorance, laziness and apathy. And that includes most members of that citizen militia the Founders deemed “necessary to the security of a free State.”
Henry’s contemporary, and in many ways, ideological opposite, would not have been surprised.
“The project of disciplining all the militia of the United States is as futile as it would be injurious,” Alexander Hamilton warned in Federalist 29.
“Who will plant this wheat?”—Paul Galdone, The Little Red Hen
There are an estimated 80 million gun owners in the United States. Only five percent of those are concerned enough about the Second Amendment to join the biggest of the “gun lobby” groups, the National Rifle Association. The numbers drop considerably for smaller organizations, such as Gun Owners of America, and many memberships overlap, with joiners pulling double (or more) duty.
Of this small minority claiming the mantle of “activist” gun owners, how many actually roll up their sleeves and put in time and effort working on freedom-related activities—on top of renewing memberships and reading the magazine?
During the more than a year I was fortunate to share the Confederate Yankee Blog with Bob Owens, its founder, I wrote a series of articles on the rationale and practical issues of gun ownership. With the beginning of a new year, and my new blog, I thought it worthwhile to produce a new, updated series on that issue and the many related issues swirling around it.
This is an outstanding read. You are sorely missing out if you don't read this. I've only read the first and can't wait to read the rest of the series.
We have this from the Washington Times. Teh Won is looking to backdoor the Second Amendment through his budget proposal. Wake the fuck up people. If the SCOAMF gets reelected he’s going after the Second Amendment on all fronts. He’ll have nothing to lose.
President Obama is using his budget to advance an anti-gun agenda just before the election. One particularly sneaky provision buried deep within his submission to Congress Monday would, if enacted, allow the mistakes of the “Fast and Furious” gun-walking scandal to be repeated.
In November, the president signed the Justice Department appropriations bill, which included language from Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican, prohibiting federal agencies from facilitating the transfer of an operable firearm to an individual known or suspected to be in a drug cartel, unless they monitor the weapon at all times.
Now Mr. Obama is proposing to remove that provision from the 2013 spending bill, thus making it legal to revive gun-walking operations in the future. The White House justification is merely that the prohibition is “not necessary.”
I hate this state’s stance on guns. It doesn’t do anything but get innocent people killed by criminals. The laws they have on the books do one thing, and one thing only. They diminish the rights of American citizens to own a gun and defend themselves against the assholes of society that are already breaking the law. Adding anti-gun laws only helps the criminals, and gang bangers in this state. It is high time that this state be taken back from the liberal do gooders that have made this state a haven for criminals, gang bangers, illegal aliens and the like.
The politicians in this state are either armed, or have armed security with them and their families at all times. How is that representing the peoples’ will?
I could rant into next week on this, but it almost seems pointless in this commie infested state.
Since I live in the “Peoples Republik of Kalifornia” I notice a lot of things that folks in other states don’t. I get a chance to see the drug war, the gang war, the class war and the illegal Immigration war first hand…. Funny how they are all connected here in CA…
In February (So far) there have been 13 declared murders NINE of which involved firearms. Now this is good news I guess because 4 of the 13 KILLED didn’t involve being shot. One was stabbed, one was bludgeoned and two were labeled as “Other”…
Does anyone know where I’m heading with this? If you don’t you haven’t read my rants before so buckle up cause it’s gonna be a rough ride if you’re a Brady Campaign supporter….
This is great news! And it comes from California no less.
The more people that have guns, the better. Guns are the only way that America will stay free. Without guns, government can do whatever the hell it wants to. Just ask Britain.
Ask the Brits about their soaring crime rates while you’re at it.
ROCKLIN CBS13 — If you’ve pulled the trigger on a new firearm this holiday season, join the club.As in your neighborhood shooting club, because faster than a speeding bullet, guns are going out the door.Well, not right away, of course — there is that 10-day waiting period, 11 here at TDS Guns in Rocklin, where Bob Norgard wasn’t caught off-guard.He’s making his purchase today so he’ll have his firearm under the Christmas tree as he joins a growing number of people who say they’re simply “doing what they need to do to protect themselves and their family.”This surge in gun sales — the best holiday sales season in three years, according to the Firearms Dealers Association — got a shot in the arm on Black Friday.
You still think this asshole isn’t after your guns? Think again. Just look at the Fast & Furious debacle to get a clue. That operation’s sole purpose was to give the gun grabbing douche bags an excuse to go after the Second Amendment in earnest.
Obama administration officials are deliberately keeping gun owners in the dark about the president’s gun-control agenda as we head into next year’s national election, because administration officials know that when NRA members and gun owners show up at the polls en masse, anti-gun candidates lose.
The Obama campaign’s strategy goes like this:
1. Neutralize gun owners and NRA members as a political force in the upcoming national election by pretending to be pro-gun or at least not focused on pushing a gun-control agenda;
2. With gun owners neutralized, Obama will be able to win the election. After the president is re-elected, he won’t have to answer to voters because he won’t have to face another re-election battle;
3. Launch a full-scale, all-out assault to rip the Second Amendment out of the Bill of Rights through legislation, litigation, regulation, executive orders and international treaties — in short, every lever of power at the administration’s disposal.
Barack Obama spent his entire political career proudly and publicly pushing for the most radical anti-gun positions you can imagine. He endorsed a total ban on the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns. He opposed right-to-carry laws. He voted to ban nearly all commonly used hunting-rifle ammunition.
A largely overlooked exchange from Thursday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing includes what appears to be an admission from Attorney General Eric Holder that emails to and from him about Operation Fast and Furious may exist, and that he’s refusing to provide them to Congress.
Sep 28, 2011 · Frank Miniter, who wrote this piece, is the author of Saving the Bill of Rights and The Ultimate Man’s Survival Guide. Why a gunrunning scandal codenamed …
Dec 08, 2011 · WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder suggested Thursday that weapons lost during the course of the failed “Fast and Furious” gunrunning operation …
Dec 07, 2011 · New York Democratic Rep. Nydia Velazquez admitted she did not know what Operation Fast and Furious was at a Congressional Hispanic Caucus event on Tuesday …
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder lamented Thursday that weapons lost during the failed “Fast and Furious” gun-running operation will continue to show up at …
Dec 08, 2011 · Eric Holder faced scrutiny from the Republican-dominated House Judiciary Committee on Thursday regarding the “Fast and Furious” initiative meant to keep …
Dec 07, 2011 · Since the beginning of the Fast and Furious scandal, some avid gun-rights supporters have been suggesting that the operation was designed to promote gun …
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