Iowa Legislature moves Toward Right to Arms Constitutional Amendment

By Dean Weingarten

Arizona -(Ammoland.com)- Only six states do not have some sort of right to keep and bear arms amendment or clause in their state Constitution. They are California, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, and New York.

California, Maryland, New Jersey and New York show the lack of a state constitutional protection with their highly restrictive firearms laws.

Two outliers on that list are Iowa and Minnesota. State constitutional protections of the right to bear arms provide protection when the federal Constitution fails to do so. The U.S. Supreme Court has been reluctant to protect Second Amendment rights for a decade. Getting to the U.S. Supreme Court is long, difficult, and far from certain. State Supreme courts are more easily accessible, showing the utility of state constitutional protections.

Iowa is in the process of adding a constitutional amendment to protect the right to keep and bear arms at the state level. The proposed amendment is as follows: From iowa.gov:

Right to acquire, keep, possess, transport, carry, transfer, and use arms.

SEC. 1A. The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. The sovereign state of Iowa …Read the Rest

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