You might think that in a deep red state like Florida with solid GOP supermajorities in both the House and Senate, undoing the damage done in the DO SOMETHING post-Parkland mania wouldn’t be that difficult. You’d be wrong.
Guided by the Supreme Court’s holding in Bruen, the Court grants Plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment and concludes that the New York firearm statute is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment as applied to Plaintiffs Votruba and Harris.
Gun control politicians seem to be stuck in a perpetual loop of recognizing that crime is a problem while ignoring the criminals who commit those crimes, instead call for more gun control in the name of “doing something.”
DC’s stringent gun laws prohibit open carry and, in general, require individuals to obtain a concealed-carry permit – which are not issued for shotguns or rifles – in order to leave home with a firearm.
The Bloomberg billionaire-backed gun control group Everytown is rolling out a new campaign to teach gun owners how to be safe and responsible with the firearms. It would be easy to dismiss this as the stuff of comedy writers.
“The decision in Nguyen v. Bonta is both an unusual example of the Ninth Circuit unanimously striking down a gun restriction under the Second Amendment and, potentially, a sign of greater receptiveness to Supreme Court cues at the appellate level.”
The concerns that animate critics of drug prohibition and critics of gun control are fundamentally similar: Both complain that the
Texas Senator John Cornyn shocked gun owners across the country after denying any involvement in helping pass Biden’s signature gun control bill despite his well-documented leadership role in getting it across the finish line in 2022.
What is noteworthy about this development is that it marks the first time a panel of this Court has invalidated a gun control measure under the Second Amendment without the full Court subsequently reversing or modifying the decision en banc.
What used to take “several months” to obtain a concealed carry permit, has been cut down to 4.6 days, according to data compiled during the month of May by the President’s task force.
