The U.S. Supreme Court’s fall docket features a headline-grabbing case coming out of New York that pits government overreach against the Second Amendment right of citizens to carry a firearm.
In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, the state wants to control who qualifies for a concealed carry permit by making law-abiding citizens prove they have a good reason to qualify. And if everyday people think New York City’s 22-percent rise in overall crime, 20.5 percent increase in felony assault, or 17.4 percent rise in murders are reasons to carry a firearm to defend yourself, officials in Democrat-run New York disagree. Anti-Second Amendment lawmakers prefer you call 911 so that a CSI unit can put chalk around your cold dead body.
“The entire point of the New York scheme is not simply or primarily to screen out applicants who fail to meet objective standards of responsible and law-abiding behavior. It is to give authorities complete control over who gets to exercise the right and who does not,” an NRA opinion piece recently stated. “This, of course, is wholly incompatible with the idea of a fundamental right, which exists, as the Supreme Court said in the Second Amendment context, ‘to take certain policy choices off the table.’ If the starting point for a carry licensing scheme is presumptive denial, then there is no right at all, only a privilege administered to the favored few.”
In this case, Robert Nash and Brandon Koch were issued concealed carry permits with travel limitations. But their access to a self-defense handgun was denied for most areas. It seems almost ironic that New York started the concealed carry permitting process in 1913 after the Big Apple experienced a surge in homicides that almost mirror conditions today. Of course, now Democrats have the fake news media on a leash to call violence “most peaceful protests” and blame “racism” for the plague of inner-city shootings. That being said, the high court expects to hear oral arguments for New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen on Nov. 3, and many anticipate this could move the needle in favor of lawful gun ownership and carry.
The last major gun rights case before the U.S. Supreme Court transpired in 2008. Justices handed down a 5-4 decision striking a Washington, D.C., law that effectively banned people from keeping a handgun in their own home for self-defense. In the District of Columbia v. Heller, the court expanded the understanding of the Second Amendment from the ability to maintain a militia to one of an individual’s right to self-defense.
The conventional wisdom heading into the fall docket is that former President Donald Trump’s three conservative justices will again tip the scales in favor of individual gun ownership and self-defense rights. Justices Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, and Brett Kavanaugh are expected to join Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, asserting that the burden to deny a concealed carry permit is squarely on the government to prove someone can be disqualified.
Joe Biden and A.G. Merrick Garland have filed briefs supporting the New York law and an effective end to lawful gun ownership. Everyday Americans should count their blessings that Sen. Mitch McConnell prevented Garland from securing a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court and trampling the Constitution.
IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR PATRIOTS CONCEALED WEAPONS UNLAWFULLY TO MAKE US FREE AND PROTECT THEMSELVES AND FAMILIES. WHAT DOES BRANDON THINK WILL HAPPEN EVEN IF THIS PLOY WORKS IN HIS FAVOR?CITIZENS WILL STILL CONCEAL GUNS ESPECIALLY SINCE THEY WILL PROBABLY GET OUT ON NO BAIL AND NO PROSECUTION JUST LIKE THE REST OF THE WOKE STATE.
They will NOT get no bail and no prosecution because they would be violating the Left’s agenda! Case in point: Those political prisoners being persecuted for demonstrating against a rigged election on Jan 6 while real Demo-rat supported anarchists such as BLM and Antifa get a pass.
Do NOT expect the feckless Supreme Court to uphold constitutional principles! The court, over decades, has a dismal record of allegiance to the Founding Documents whenever there is a hint of political controversy involved! They deserve the same amount of trust as any self serving politician or used car salesman.
It dosen’t matter!!! This is all a charade to allow the radical left to place all americans into their socialist, progressive, insane effort to destroy the greatest nation in history. Why, all because they can’t stand people who are Godly, work hard for a living, uphold the tenants of our Constitution, and teach their children to be lawabiding citizens!
May the radical left BURN IN HELL!
I am so afraid that you may be right !! GOD FORBID
It’s going to be interesting to see which way the traitor Roberts leans,
As if I didn’t already have a idea.
Well I am not giving up on our Supreme Court Justices just yet. They should uphold all of our constitutional right. Our Fore Fathers came up with the Constitution and we should live by them. I am putting my trust on The Surpreme Court’s. I guess we will have to wait and see!!!
When Big Tim Sullivan wrote the law that bears his name in 1911 it had a political purpose. He was a Tammany Hall Political Boss a k a a crook. He wanted his own poll watchers armed and those of his opponents unarmed.
To all gungrabbers and to people defending our 2nd Amendment –
The following is a Supreme Court Case– We might have to remind them:
LAW OF THE LAND:
The general misconception is that any statute passed by legislators bearing the appearance of law constitutes the law of the land.The U.S.Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and any statute, to be valid,must be in agreement. It is impossible for a law which violates the Constitution to be valid. This is succinctly stated as follows.
“All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void.” Marbury vs. Madison, 5 US (2 Cranch) 137, 174, 176, (1803)
The first thing a socialist / marxist driven country wants to do is eliminate all guns from the population. Then any chance of protection is eliminated. Look at Venzuela, N. Korea, China, etc….The only group that has guns should be those who they believe will support their radical viewpoints.
The 2nd Amendment IS our right – God given for self and national defense. The demostroyer politicians are demonically possessed morons. May they burn in hell if they do not change their minds about who is truly God and not themselves!!!
The Constitution give all law-abiding citizens without felonies the right to own and carry a firearm, not some damn asinine jackass democrate on the surprime court!
USMC