No constitutional right to carry guns in public, court rules

[alp227]

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

A federal appeals court upheld California’s handgun permit law Thursday, requiring gun owners to seek approval from local law enforcement agencies to carry their weapons in public.

In a 7-4 ruling, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said the Second Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees the right to keep and bear arms, does not protect the right to be armed in public. The California law has made handgun permits virtually unavailable in most of the state’s populous areas.

“The Second Amendment does not protect, in any degree, the carrying of concealed firearms by members of the general public,” Judge William Fletcher said in the majority opinion.

“The Second Amendment is not a ‘second-class’ constitutional guarantee,” Judge Consuelo Callahan retorted in dissent.

Read more: http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/No-constitutional-right-to-carry-guns-in-public-7973382.php?t=d1b9f7fb467d4f3860&cmpid=twitter-premium

[Cryptoad]

1. What was that nationally of those judges? /s

[LonePirate]

2. This case is obviously headed to the Supreme Court. We sure need that fifth liberal justice.

[displacedtexan]

3. Good. Can we now insist that they don't leave guns in their cars

for random people to find and use? That would be nice. It's infuriating when SF or CA is blamed for murders committed by people who steal guns left inside parked cars. And most of the recent ones were because law enforment officers left their guns in their cars.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Duplicate of LBN post 2 threads down on DU front page

Read and heed the Stop sign text when posting, please.

[OKNancy]

5. Locking - duplicate

Duplicate of: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141482609

Feel free to post your article in the older thread