Liberal appeals court affirms that open carry is protected by the Second Amendment

By Aaron Colen

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, known as a liberal court, ruled Tuesday that the Second Amendment protects citizens’ right to openly carry a firearm outside the home, according to The Washington Post.

A partial panel issued the 2-1 ruling in the case of Young v. Hawaii, determining that George Young’s constitutional rights were violated when Hawaii officials denied him a permit to carry his weapon openly in public for self defense.

A lower court had previously ruled that the Second Amendment only applied to guns in the home.

Why did the court rule this way?

According to the decision, the state tried to deny Young an open carry permit by enforcing a limitation of open carry to those “engaged in the protection of life and property,” which the court rejected.

“The panel stated that once identified as an individual right focused on self-defense, the right to bear arms must guarantee some right to self-defense in public,” the decision read. “… The panel concluded that Hawaii’s limitation on the open carry of firearms to those ‘engaged in the protection of life and property’ violated the core of the Second Amendment and was void under any level of scrutiny.”

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Source:: The Blaze