NRA will Appeal TX Concealed Carry Law in Jennings v. McCraw, to ALLOW 18 & UP!
Submitted by AnCapMercenary on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 10:42Big ups to Texas 2nd Amendment liberty activists!
They're working hard to rectify the hypocrisy of the State the Leviathan, that likes to consider an eighteen year old an adult when it suits them, but not when it doesn't, as is the case in drinking, and handgun ownership!
http://www.nraila.org/get-involved-locally/grassroots/grassr...
NRA Will Appeal Texas Concealed Handgun Case
NRA-ILA GRASSROOTS ALERT Vol. 19, No. 03 01/20/12
Posted on January 20, 2012
NRA Will Appeal Texas Concealed Handgun Case
NRA will appeal yesterday’s decision by a federal court in Texas, which held that the Second Amendment doesn’t protect any right to keep or bear arms outside the home.
The decision, handed down by U.S. District Judge Sam Cummings of the Northern District of Texas, came in the case of Jennings v. McCraw, in which a group of law-abiding 18- to 20-year old adults challenged the state law prohibiting issuance of concealed handgun licenses to persons under 21, who are treated as adults for virtually every other purpose under the law. (NRA is also a party on behalf of its members in this age group.) Judge Cummings ruled that it was unnecessary to address the state’s discrimination against young adults because “the right to carry a handgun outside of the home … seems to be beyond the scope of the core Second Amendment concern articulated in Heller [v. District of Columbia].”
Unfortunately, this is only the most recent of several court decisions that have misread Heller in that way. Heller, of course, only directly addressed gun possession in the home, for a very simple reason: The plaintiffs in that case only challenged Washington, D.C.’s limits on possession in the home, rather than its restrictions on carrying firearms outside the home...
Are 18 year-old Texans allowed to carry firearms away from home
if they're overseas killing Muslims?
Damn good point, my friend!
Besides, I think it's funny that that stupid judge believes he can tell a Texan he can't carry a gun on his person. It won't protect you in public if you leave the darn thing at home! What a freakin' moron. Judge Andrew Napolitano should slap him around let him know what the 2nd Amendment is all about.
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Next... California!
Next... California!
Support freedom and liberty candidates in 2012... Ron Paul... Gary Johnson...
Actually I'd rather see
Next... Illinois. The only state in the nation where only criminals are allowed to carry, while law-abiding citizens are defenseless.
That may be true:
Technically.
But there are other states, especially Maryland! that while you can apply for a c.c.permit, no one actually ever gets one unless you are very connected. One person handles it all and it is at their discretion. So, it is very rare (almost impossible) to get a C.C. in MD.
The laws there are so bad that you almost have to make up a story to even take a firearm from your home to the range or shop or anywhere for that matter. To make a long story short.
I have had a cop point his gun at me and place me in handcuffs while I was in my own yard carrying. I made him call his chief and when he arrived, I let him know that if I wasn't released immediately, I was going after someone's bond for false detention, and was also going to sue the town.
I was un-cuffed, but not before they removed the revolver from my holster and unloaded it, ran the numbers to see if it came up stolen, etc.
But I asserted my rights and let them know it was not going to happen again, so get used to it. I have neighbors with nasty pit bulls and I would not risk being out there without one.
So with all of that said, MD sucks as bad or worse than everyone else.
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