The rulings in Maryland and Oregon come amid a shifting legal landscape in the wake of a Supreme Court decision that has imposed new limits on gun regulation.
In the wake of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision last year that significantly limits what the government can do to restrict guns, states led by Democrats have scrambled to circumvent or test the limits of the ruling. A few have approved new gun restrictions. Oregon even passed a ballot initiative to ban high-capacity ammunition magazines.
But this week, supporters of the new gun measures suffered a pair of setbacks, underscoring the rippling effect of the court’s decision.
On Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Va., ruled that a 10-year-old Maryland law related to licensing requirements for handguns was unconstitutional.
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You may now all exercise your right to ARM THE FUCK UP BECAUSE NAZIS ARE COMING TO KILL YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.
The only violent nazis intent on killing people I’ve seen lately are the ones chanting “From the river to the sea…”
Well there have been plenty of violent nazis all ocer the US but you like to call them “lone wolves suffering mental breakdowns”. Nope. They’re just violent Nazis, much like thones taking our money and genociding Palistinians on their own soil.
Under the Maryland law, an applicant for a handgun license must meet four requirements. They must be at least 21 years old, a resident of the state, complete a gun safety course and undergo a background check to ensure they are not barred under federal or state law from owning a firearm.
An applicant must then fill out an application, pay a processing fee, and wait up to 30 days for a state official to issue a license.
The appeals court ruled that requiring applicants to wait up to 30 days for a handgun permit violated the constitutional rights of citizens, and “the law’s waiting period could well be the critical time in which the applicant expects to face danger.”
I fucking hate these cretins in our judiciary.
Why do you think law abiding citizens should be subjected to waiting periods to exercise their constitutional rights?
The constitutional right to acquire arms immediately and without precondition, I see. Just like the constitutional right to say anything, at any time, without any consequences.
Thank you giorgio wadshingtun 🙇
Same way as law abiding citizens need to wait 21 years, goes through firearm training, and gone through background check to exercise their constitutional rights. If 30 days is such a long time to wait and considered unconstitutional, why not lower the age requirement to 12 years old? Why need firearm training? Why need background check?
Children are basically retarded and we already limit minors’ rights. I’d honestly include a good number of 21 year olds in that group.
Not a huge fan of crazy gun control but some limits make sense - we’re literally talking about a (fun) murder machine. Hopefully folks can see how that might be just a little different than say… Words?
Because it makes the world safer. Same reason you need a fence around a pool, even though the pursuit of happiness is protected by the constitution (for me, happiness is unbridled access to a pool).
That is absolutely NOT protected by the Constitution. Anywhere.
For a moment I misread the title as something about Counter Strike somehow having something to do with gun control measures and got very confused…
Same bud, I was wondering are they gonna remove guns from CS?
Sorry kiddos, the judge says you got to die. Can’t take bubba’s guns away, that would be unconstitutional.
Oregon’s law was terrible and needed to be overturned ASAP. It basically gave sherriffs, the most ulta-conservative people in the state, the power to decide who did and didn’t get guns. The conspiracy minded part of me thinks measure 114 was put on the ballot to set gun control efforts back by 6 to 8 years, and it succeeded.
“May issue, determined by police” will only ever prevent minorities from owning guns. Uncle Jim, that shares conspiracies on Facebook and beats his wife, will never be blocked by a sheriff.
The Oregon one makes sense since it is very clearly codified in their Constitution.
Can have pesky laws interfering with a conservative’s right to murder people that disagree with them, can we?
