U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- The final reply brief has been filed in the NRA-ILA-supported case challenging New York’s restrictive concealed-carry-licensing regime. This was the final filing before the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on November 3rd.
As NRA-ILA argues, New York law infringes on the Second Amendment by prohibiting the average law-abiding citizen from exercising their constitutional right of self-defense. By requiring law-abiding citizens to first convince government officials that they have a “good cause” to carry a firearm that distinguishes them “from the general community,” New York’s licensing scheme treats lawful Americans like felons and grants government officials “virtually unbridled discretion to grant or withhold what the Constitution presumptively guarantees to all.” The brief, which can be read in its entirety here, declares that “The Second Amendment protects ‘the right of the people to keep and bear arms.’ … [T]he Constitution enshrines not just a homebound right to keep arms but a right to bear them outside the home, where the need for self-defense is acute.”
Under New York’s current law, “the time when a handgun may be carried outside the home for self-defense … is never, the place is nowhere, and the manner is not at all. That is an evisceration, not a regulation, of the right.” No state should be able to criminalize a constitutionally enumerated right. This NRA-ILA-backed case gives the Supreme Court of the United States the opportunity to remind every American of that.
NRA-ILA remains dedicated to protecting the rights of all Americans to keep and bear arms, even beyond the walls of their home.
The case is captioned New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen.
Please stay tuned to www.nraila.org for future updates on NRA-ILA’s ongoing efforts to defend your constitutional rights.
About NRA-ILA:
Established in 1975, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) is the “lobbying” arm of the National Rifle Association of America. ILA is responsible for preserving the right of all law-abiding individuals in the legislative, political, and legal arenas, to purchase, possess, and use firearms for legitimate purposes as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Visit: www.nra.org
Shall not be infringed is good enough for me and every other freedom loving, respecting American citizen that I know.
Arm up and carry on
NRA’s “support” is as empty and worthless as a vault full of $3 Federal Reserve funny money!
As usual, the NRA makes it sound like they are the sole defender against the government’s intrusion on the 2nd Amendment. No other gun org is supporting the effort. Yeah, right.
Until La Pierre and his toadies are gone, the NRA will get NOTHING from me, but derision.
So. Now we wait.
Any bets?
Time to choke the shiite out of ANY Supreme Court Judge who votes against the right to keep and bear arms. And we can start with that constitutional TRAITOR Robertson!
If the founders could speak, I think they would say they made a mistake by not making the 2nd Amendment the First. Without the right to keep and bear arms, none of the rights reserved to the people mean a thing. If you read China’s constitution, the people have all the rights we have, except for the right to keep and bear arms, and as a result they enjoy none of the rights we have. This is as much a spiritual battle as it is a political and legal one. Pray that God will restore liberty in the United States.… Read more »
Be careful with that buy-in Eugene…… What if the court does screw us? tell us 2A means .gov can infringe at will……that there is no right outside the home? That .gov is free to regulate? SO THE FUCK WHAT????? any child can understand the plain reading of the Second Amendment. It takes an advanced degree in TREASON to be able to not understand it. WHAT will Americans tolerate? How far will we bend over? Will we grab our ankles and spread our cheeks as freedom is stolen from our posterity forever? There is nowhere to go from here. IF the… Read more »
The court should, but won’t, do something very simple to decide this case and head off the coming civil war… issue a reprimand and reminder to all federal and state politicians: “The right to build, purchase, possess, own, carry (Outside the home, openly or concealed in public), and use firearms shall not be infringed by any government agency. The founders were explicit, restricting the government from any interference WHATSOEVER with this right that existed before the government was established. NO PERMIT, LICENSE, TRAINING REQUIREMENTS, LIMITATIONS, OR BANS OF ANY TYPE shall be placed on firearms or their parts for citizens… Read more »
When setting up an encampment in a combat arena, it is SOP to encircle the encampment with an alarm system, to warn of enemy presence. The second amendment is the tripwire for our constitution. The purpose of our constitution, is to defend the bill of rights. Any attempt to infringe on the second amendment legislatively, should be considered an act of treason. Cancel the second amendment, and we, and our progeny will be forever subjugated. Protect the second amendment and the fabricated Marxamericans will decay in their own fear. America is for We the People; socialism is for the bureaucrats,… Read more »
It goes like this:
A well regulated citizenry, being necessary to the security of the Socialist State, the right of government enforcement agents, active and retired, to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
The ONLY category of “citizen” to receive a license class/type “UNRESTRICTED CARRY”, is retired law enforcement officials.