No reason needed for concealed-carry
A federal judge has ordered Maryland officials to stop enforcing a law barring state residents from receiving concealed-carry handgun permits unless they provide a “good and substantial reason” to carry their weapons in public.
U.S. District Court Judge Benson Everett Legg on Monday lifted the stay on his March ruling, which struck down a Maryland law requiring applicants to prove that they need to carry a gun for workplace duties or as protection from a specific threat. The order goes into effect Aug. 7.
Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler, a Democrat, has appealed the initial ruling and could seek another stay to further delay its enforcement, but gun rights advocates say the judge’s decision puts them one step closer to finalizing a landmark victory.
“We are, after all, talking about a civil right,” said Dave Workman, spokesman for the Second Amendment Foundation, a Bellevue, Wash.-based group that provided financial backing for the plaintiff in the lawsuit. “You should not have to explain why you want to exercise a fundamental civil right.”
“You should not have to explain why you want to exercise a fundamental civil right.”
Especially when criminals and crazies vastly out number police.
The gun control proponents somehow believe limiting firearms access by law abiding folks, making them better victims, will somehow limit criminal/crazy access. I feel very confident that Maryland will overcome this set back in gun control and find ways to limit citizens’ self-defense. I travel from Virginia to Michigan several times a year. I carry firearms for recreational shooting with friends and family. The fastest, depending on traffic, route is through DC and Maryland. I don’t go that way.
From what I understand, the perpertrator of this massacre did not conceal his weapon. So how does this help.
Victimising law-abiding citizens is hardly going to prevent the stockpiling of ammunition brought by a looney over the net.
No one saw this coming and no one will see the next one coming.
All we can hope for is that the carnage is limited.
I think you nailed it with “looney” and “no one saw this coming or will see the next one” These nuts do seem to pick places where they victims are probably not armed, like a movie theater in a city with fairly strict gun control ordinances or the Norway shooting.