BREAKING: Right-to-Carry Supreme Court Arguments Bode Well For 2A
Last updated: December 4, 2021 · Originally published: November 4, 2021
Today, we have some excellent news straight from the nation’s highest court!
Following Wednesday morning’s oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, the Second Amendment Foundation predicts a victory for the right-to-carry a firearm in public for personal protection.
“Based on questions from the Supreme Court Justices,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb, “I’m confident we’re going to win either on a 5-4 or 6-3 vote.”
He said suggestions from New York Solicitor General Barbara D. Underwood and Deputy Solicitor General Brian H. Fletcher with the U.S. Justice Department—both defending New York’s restrictive “may issue” carry law—that the case be remanded back to the lower courts smacks of an attempted stall.
“I think at that point the anti-gun rights justices as well as the attorneys for New York recognized they are not going to win,” Gottlieb observed, “and they were trying to forestall an unfavorable ruling. During the oral arguments several justices affirmed that the right to keep and bear arms does not stop at the front door.”
“This important Supreme Court case,” he added, “was only made possible by SAF’s 2010 Supreme Court victory in McDonald v. City of Chicago, which incorporated the Second Amendment to the states via the 14th Amendment.”
Presenting the oral argument for the plaintiffs, attorney Paul Clement told the court that the constitution protects carrying concealed firearms outside the home. He also said there should be no requirement for a citizen to prove a special need in order to exercise a constitutionally protected fundamental right. Questions and comments by several justices pointed out that many lower courts were not adhering to the Heller and McDonald decisions by the high court and not applying the proper heightened scrutiny levels that the Second Amendment deserves.
SAF filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the NYSR&PA case, which was joined by several other gun rights organizations.
“After listening to the oral arguments,” Gottlieb said, “I’m convinced the ruling will impact the other seven states that do not recognize Second Amendment rights with their discretionary ‘may issue’ carry laws. I also think the court’s ruling should impact dozens of other cases SAF has filed that are currently in the lower federal courts.
“An affirmative ruling, which we expect sometime in June 2022,” Gottlieb noted, “will only reinforce our mission to win back firearms freedom, one lawsuit at a time.”
Until I moved out of the Chicago Metro Area, I used to carry three handguns and a back-up switchblade on the streets of Chicago. I worked and traveled in a dangerous area (no doubt you’ve heard of 47th Street). I had to use every one of those weapons, including a chain, which I was an expert with. I was willing to risk arrest rather than lose my life. I saved two lives during the 18 years I carried those weapons. I only went to court once, for assault with a deadly weapon, and that was when some Democrat thugs came to my house because we did not vote correctly, and threatened to blow up our house and kill my entire family. The judge found me innocent, gave me back my 7.7 Jap. rifle, and told me to kill them all next time! I doubt that would happen today.
Surprise the Supremes might grant the peasants the right to defend theirs and loved one’s lives outside their homes. I thought it was a right from GOD in Christian and Jewish Religions that an honest person protect their gift of life; even a responsibility.
WIth this regime allowing criminals to do as they wish with no punishment there is little chance of one of them giving up their gun, which is contraband for a felon.
If the court wished to do what is right the tool/all tools should not be the issue. The issue should be the real weapon, the mind of the killer/attacker.
Cain did not need an AR-15 to kill Abel, he probably used the weapons GOD gave him. His hands.. Attempting to take every tool that can be used to kill or injure is blowing in the wind. The real weapon is the psycho that needs put away or put down.
If a psycho is intent on killing no lesser law matters to him either.. It’s not the gun it’s the goon that is the problem.
As a former resident and property owner of NY I held a NYS issues pistol permit. After I moved away from NY but still owned the property, I was denied an updated permit. In my new state I hold a CCW that is recognized by 39 other states but not NY and NY refused to consider issuing me a permit. Hopefully this case will prevail and NY will have to let the rest of us carry there as well. After all, I’m a U.S. Citizen too.
It’s about frelling time! Thanks be to the higher ups and the people who still have morals, ethics and a love for our Constitution.
Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched….
NY state leaves it up to issuing officers , usually county judges , to contrive an excuse for denying ccp’s from persons who in fact qualify for a permit to be issued. These judges consistently interject their own disdain for citizens possessing firearms in place of the statutes that provide guidelines for determining a persons fitness in the laws opinion. Of coarse in NYS , no private citizen should be trusted with their constitutional right to carry.