Ninth Circuit may shootdown opposition to concealed carry in CA
According to Fox News, the Ninth Circuit Court has declared that it will no longer accept “interveners” in opposition to it’s decision earlier this year that California’s concealed carry protections were unconstitutional.
The decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals would bar other law enforcement officials, including state Attorney General Kamala Harris, from gaining “intervener status” to join in further challenges of its ruling in a case originally brought by an independent journalist who sued the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department over its policy of requiring a specific reason for being allowed to carry a concealed weapon in public.
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In its bombshell ruling earlier this year, the 9th Circuit found those policies to be unconstitutional and held that law-abiding citizens have a right to bear arms under the Constitution’s Second Amendment and could not be required to justify their reasons for carrying concealed weapons.
That could be bad news for DC, too, where WTTG’s journalist Emily Miller was told that she didn’t need a carry license, according to Katie Pavlich;
To make things worse, during an interview a D.C. police department employee essentially argued that Second Amendment rights don’t apply in D.C. because they were written “for when the British were coming.” For the record, “the British were coming” (a reference from Paul Revere’s famous ride) in 1775. The Second Amendment wasn’t written until 1787.
Yeah, well, ISIS is coming.
Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists
Oh, noes!! The brainfog may clear out, after all.
?? The British are coming?? Uh, what??? What crackejacks box do those people – er, idiots live in?
Ex-PH2…I guess good old bonehead U.S. History isn’t a big subject in the DC school systems. Shame too. Ever listen to some of the current generation’s answers simple questions about our history? I mean VERY SIMPLE history questions too. It makes me shudder. How did I hear it said once, “I weep…for the future.”
Bahahahahahahaha
The British are Coming and they are bringing their horridly bland foodstuffs with them!
Heh. I read about this and was wondering if somebody had slipped a little LSD into my coffee.
The 9th Circuit? Looneytoonsville!!?? Or is it snowing in the Hot Place …
You need to read some Dante, OldSoldier54. Been snowing in the innermost circle there since the 13th century. (smile)
Don’t you know, Hondo? All us military types only joined because we was too dumb to get into one of them fancy colleges.
;D
OldSoldier54…That was my thought at first blush too. Usually the 9th Circuit would have said we’re collecting ALL guns in the state RIGHT NOW. They have made some rather conservative, for them, decisions recently.
The 9th Circuit really surprised me when they made their pro-2A ruling the first time around, since nobody expected it based on their record. Still, if even they can see how California’s “may issue” CCW policy is bullshit that certain jurisdictions abuse like a red-headed stepchild, there is hope.
CCW has long been a mixed bag in California. Many counties are pretty fair with their issuance policy. But in San Diego, where I have lived my whole life, the policy under the last three sheriffs has been “close personal friends of the sheriff get theirs the moment they ask for it, everybody else jumps through more hoops than a circus animal and usually still doesn’t get one.” The city and county of LA are even worse, not that it’s been any kind of hindrance to the various skinhead, crip, blood, Mexican mafia, and other assorted shitheads operating in that cesspool. Same deal inSan Francisco, though Diane Feinstein apparently didn’t need a reason like the common folk do.
The citizens say it’s bullshit. Every sheriff’s deputy I know says it’s bullshit. The Court stated the obvious: that it’s subjective with no oversight of or recourse against the existing process and that it gets abused with obscene regularity. I don’t see how the state can counter that when there’s a long and well-documented history of that abuse.
When I got stationed in LA, a few of us were told by the LA County Sheriff when we inquired about CCWs “Don’t waste your money, you won’t get one, even for active duty military. Sorry.”
Though we had guys who lived outside LA County who got them, but they had to drive to work 1-2 hours one way.
For the record, when Paul Revere (and others) made his famous ride, he never shouted “The British are coming!”
Why? Because we were all British subjects back then. He may have shouted “The Redcoats are coming” or “The King’s soldiers are coming” or some such thing, bust mostly it was a “call out the militia”.
We ceased being British subjects with the posting of the Declarations of Independence over a year after that ride, though it could also be argued that we really didn’t become independent until the British surrendered and recognized our independence.
But I will also say that the industrial-strength stupidity in DC is always apparent.
Many years ago I was inquiring about a couple of confederate uniforms in the Smithsonian’s collection. The research desk lady was an “african-american” and was adamant in asking me why I wanted to know about all “those slavery things”. I eventually got to examine the items, but it was a couple days and two levels above her before I got to.
She probably also thinks that the Confederacy were Republicans and Lincoln was a Democrat…
I saw the pic of Emily Miller and her interaction with the employee of the D.C. Metro Police. I’d venture that she was dealing with the brother or son of the woman you dealt with, Tim.
You don’t suppose the DC policeman meant the war of 1812 when the Brits marched through DC and burned the White House? That being said I can’t argue with the industrial-strength stupid of DC.
I hope they can also apply that to Maryland’s “yeah, you can get one, but it takes a specific threat against your life before we’ll issue one” stance.
Well, the hemorrhoid on the ass of the US Army who calls himself Bob (master)Bateman made a specific death threat against everyone in this country who owns a legal firearm. That should count.
Been trolling awhile, thought I’d chime in on this. Perhaps the court felt the winds changing w/ mid-term elections. Judges are just politicians that wear robes to keep the shit off their clothes. The three branches have grown into a topiary.
Got a permit to carry, but don’t even own a short arm. A privilege not exercised is soon lost.
“I’d like a CCW”
“Are The British Coming”?
“Uh…IDK. Does Piers count”?
“No, denied”
“WTF”??