{"id":34679,"date":"2013-03-21T16:18:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T20:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34679"},"modified":"2013-03-21T16:19:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T20:19:29","slug":"federal-court-upholds-maryland-gun-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34679","title":{"rendered":"Federal Court upholds Maryland restrictive gun law"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeah, this is total BS. The Federal Appeals Court upheld the idiot laws in Maryland which requires that an applicant be in imminent danger to qualify for a CCW permit. The Baltimore Sun<\/a> doesn’t tell the whole story; <\/p>\n

The case began with Baltimore County resident Raymond Woollard, who sued after he was denied a permit. A national gun rights advocacy group took on the case, arguing that Maryland unnecessarily restricts the right to carry firearms.<\/p>\n

A federal district judge agreed last March, striking down that requirement as unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

The Maryland attorney general’s office, fearing a spike in gun violence, appealed the decision, and the federal court of appeals allowed the law to stand during the challenge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The whole story is that Woollard had a permit after proving that he was in imminent danger from a guy who lived three miles from him and had previously forced his way into Woollard’s house. When Woollard tried to protect his family with a long gun, the intruder wrestled the gun from him, Woollard’s son got another gun and brought order to the situation until police arrived. <\/p>\n

Because of the attack, Woollard was issued a permit. That was in 2005. Woollard renewed his permit once, but when he went back in 2009 to renew it again, the permit was denied because “his application was incomplete: \u201cEvidence is needed to support apprehended fear (i.e. – copies of police reports for assaults, threats, harassments, stalking).\u201d” <\/p>\n

So, Woollard sued, along with the Second Amendment Foundation. He won in the U S District Court which decided that Maryland’s restrictive regulations violated the Second Amendment;<\/p>\n

Defendants\u2019 application of Maryland Public Safety Code \u00a75-306(a)(5)(ii)\u2019s requirement that handgun carry permit applicants demonstrate \u201cgood and substantial reason to wear, carry, or transport a handgun, such . . . that the permit is necessary as a reasonable precaution against apprehended danger,\u201d violates the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, damaging Plaintiffs in violation of 42 U.S.C. \u00a7 1983.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But now the appellate court has overturned that decision. He had a permit for more than four years as a law-abiding citizen, but now, because his attacker is in prison, he doesn’t need one anymore. So basically, you can’t have a permit in Maryland until it’s too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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