Second Amendment victory: Washington DC to drop concealed carry challenge
How about a little good news today? Back in July of last year a United States District Court Judge ruled that Washington D.C.’s ban on concealed carry was unconstitutional and as a result lawmakers wrote concealed carry permitting laws to comply with the ruling.
Naturally the ruling was being appealed but yesterday the Attorney General working on the case announced that Washington D.C. was going to drop the challenge–concealed carry is now officially allowed in Washington D.C.
Here is more:
Washington, D.C., will drop its appeal of a federal court ruling that overturned the city’s ban on carrying handguns in public, Attorney General Karl Racine announced Wednesday.
City attorneys will instead focus on defending concealed-carry laws adopted by legislators in the months after U.S. District Court Judge Frederick J. Scullin Jr. declared the ban was unconstitutional.
“We need to focus our energies not on litigating old laws, but defending new ones that our leaders enacted in good faith to comply with court rulings while still protecting public safety,” Mr. Racine said.
According to the article linked to above there are currently two challenges to the concealed carry law by gun owners who feel the new system is too restrictive. So when Attorney General Racine states he will defend the current laws he simply means he will defend them against gun owners who feel they are too tough. He is still fighting against concealed carry but on a lower level. Still, this is a victory for second amendment advocates.
Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium
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Next item on the agenda: repealing New Jersey’s law that requires a dog riding in a car must be in a doggie car seat. “Click it or ticket.” 🐶
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Counting the days …. until this regime ends. Good news is a real struggle to find.
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And it was short-lived because now the DHS is trying to implement a license plate tracking system…UGH! Will it ever end?
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That license plate tracking system is one of the scariest things to come up yet. It’s a definitive step to introducing the 1984 style monitoring of all of us.
If it doesn’t get stopped, we’re screwed. We will no longer be able to conduct any of our lives away from government monitoring.
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We know the insurance companies want to keep track of what we do, but I fail to see, same as you, how the Government doing this is in our best interest. I am not comfortable with anyone keeping track of how many times I leave my house and what my destination might be. I remember when the trucks started using the lane where they could bypass pulling in for the weight scales,,,,seemed like such a savings of time, and all they had to do was keep something on their dash for the CAMERAS to pick up on. Now looking back, was it really that or just another thing to get us used to taking snap shots of our plates with a date/time stamp? I know up by Chicago, if you are not in the proper lane and do not pull thru the tolls, you get a copy of your car and plate in the mail and a ticket….they come up pretty quickly and sometimes you cannot get over to run thru the toll…or better put, you are not LET OVER to go thru the toll, Illinois drivers, being what they are, haha! Or, you could roll right along in the PASS lanes, have your plates monitored for no wrong doing and not have to mess with those pesky TOLL BOOTHS. You can see what a convenience that is, right? RIGHT? Surely someone thinks this is a great idea!
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