The Supreme Court’s decisions in Heller and McDonald affirmed an individual right to keep and bear arms. However, those cases only addressed a central issue of keeping guns in the home. Though the Court found the right to self-defense to be “most acute” there, in no way did either decision imply that it ended at the doorstep.
Yet Maryland, New York, New Jersey, and Illinois have all claimed that their arbitrary and burdensome systems of issuing (or rather, refusing to issue) permits to carry a firearm outside the home somehow pass constitutional muster. So, we’ve brought lawsuits. We won in the 7th Circuit, and we won in the 4th Circuit. New York? Not so well.
Last November, the 2nd Circuit ruled that,
Plaintiffs misconstrue the character and scope of the Second Amendment. States have long chosen to regulate the right to bear arms because of the risks posed by its exercise.
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