Posted May 24, 2015 11:00 am by Comments

By Robert Farago

FNS-9C (courtesy Rhonda Little for The Truth About Guns)

“District Judge Frederick J. Scullin Jr. last week gutted the system police use to determine who should be allowed a permit to bear a concealed weapon in the District,” the Washington Post’s editorial board recounts. “At issue is the provision that gives police discretion in granting gun permits by requiring applicants to state a good reason why they need to carry a weapon in public.” The “good cause” provision of D.C.’s “may issue” concealed carry laws are only “at issue” amongst those who seek to deny Americans their natural, civil and Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms. Like the Washington Post. But sometimes your enemy is your friend . . .

The Post editorial – ‘D.C.’s gun protections should stand’ is a plea for the District to appeal Scullin’s decision to the Supreme Court. If D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine does so, and the Supremes agrees to hear the case, we may finally have a Court ruling that extends the individual right to keep and bear arms outside the home, striking down the “may issue” laws which create a de facto ban on concealed carry for …read more

Source:: Truth About Guns

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