Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules Conceal Carry Isn’t Probable Cause

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Lisa Marie Pane, File

Gun rights are generally considered second-class rights in this country, sometimes even in ostensibly pro-gun areas as well as in anti-gun hellholes like California or New Jersey.

Examples of how this is true were recounted by David French, including this one in a story over at National Review:

But perhaps the best expression of gun owners as second-class citizens under the Bill of Rights came from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. The court ruled that police could frisk a person if they believed that the person carried a firearm, even if he possessed a concealed-carry permit. According to the court, “the danger justifying a protective frisk arises from the combination of a forced police encounter and the presence of a weapon, not from any illegality of the weapon’s possession” (emphasis added).

In a concurring opinion, a federal circuit-court judge actually typed these words:

The majority decision today necessarily leads to the conclusion that individuals who elect to carry firearms forego other constitutional rights, like the Fourth Amendment right to have law enforcement officers “knock-and-announce” before forcibly entering homes. . . . Likewise, it is difficult to escape the conclusion that individuals who choose …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms