Emergency Gun Ban Thrown Out

You will remember Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans and the damage that was done there. People responded by protecting their property with their own weapons. Police arrested and charged these law abiding citizens with weapons charges, many of whom had done nothing more than sit with a loaded gun on what used to be there house. This is a travesty.


Another travesty has been avoided, at least for a time, in North Carolina which had passed gun ban legislation preventing citizens from having guns or ammunition during a declared "emergency."  What other time would you want people to be armed? Should we only have armed citizens when things are normal or would it make more sense to have it when there is an actual emergency? We believe the second makes a lot more sense.  What about you?


Conservative Tom

North Carolina ‘Emergency Powers’ Gun Ban Axed

April 2, 2012 by Sam Rolley 

SAF.ORG

The Second Amendment Foundation helped to get an unConstitutional North Carolina gun law overturned.

The Second Amendment Foundationsecured a victory in North Carolina for gun rights last week when a Federal judge did away with a rule that gave the State power to ban firearms and ammunition outside the home during a declared emergency.

The case, Bateman v. Purdue, was brought by the Second Amendment Foundation, Grass Roots North Carolina FFE and three individual plaintiffs against Governor Beverly Purdue and Reuben F. Young, secretary of the State’s Department of Crime Control and Public Safety.

Federal Judge Malcolm J. Howard ruled that “the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms is not strictly limited to the home environment but extends in some form to wherever those activities or needs occur.”

“Under the laws at issue here, citizens are prohibited from engaging, outside their home, in any activities secured by the Second Amendment,” Judge Malcolm wrote in his opinion. “They may not carry defensive weapons outside the home, hunt or engage in firearm related sporting activities. Additionally, although the statutes do not directly regulate the possession of firearms within the home, they effectively prohibit law abiding citizens from purchasing and transporting to their homes firearms and ammunition needed for self-defense. As such, these laws burden conduct protected by the Second Amendment.”