Does Second Amendment Apply Outside Your Home?

By Tom Knighton

The Second Amendment makes it very clear that its purpose is to protect the right to keep and bear arms. In fact, it says the right “shall not be infringed.”

Of course, our right to keep and bear arms has been infringed for years at this point. To make matters worse, the very courts that are supposedly there to protect our rights have joined in on the effort to curtail them.

Earlier this month, one such court decided to up the curtailment by claiming that the Second Amendment doesn’t exist outside your home.

Yes. Seriously.

On 2 November 2018, the First Circuit Court of Appeals held the Second Amendment effectively does not apply outside the home. From uscourts.gov:

This case involves a constitutional challenge to the Massachusetts firearms licensing statute, as implemented in the communities of Boston and Brookline. All of the individual plaintiffs sought and received licenses from one of those two communities to carry firearms in public. The licenses, though, were restricted: they allowed the plaintiffs to carry firearms only in relation to certain specified activities but denied them the right to carry firearms more generally.

The plaintiffs say that the Massachusetts firearms licensing statute, as implemented …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms