Suits Push For Greater Gun Rights in Public
Constitution, Gun Rights Monday, August 1st, 2011
By Nathan Koppel, WSJ.com
We have to imagine that a time will come (maybe, let’s say, around the year 2150) when gun rights will be a settled legal issue in our country and there will be little to fight over.
Until then, suits will continue to fly. WSJ’s Ashby Jones takes a look at the latest front in gun litigation: the extent to which people have a constitutional right to carry guns in public.
Two recently filed Illinois suits are among a handful that could give rise to the next big Supreme Court decision, Jones writes. The suits challenge Illinois’ gun-control laws, which ban nearly everyone from carrying firearms outside their homes.
The litigation has been spurred by the fact that the Supreme Court, in its recent rulings on the 2nd Amendment, did not clearly spell out what types of gun-control regulations outside the home are permissible.
“That’s why we’re filing so many cases,” said Alan Gottlieb, the founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, which filed one of the Illinois cases and has 18 other suits pending.
A spokeswoman for Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, the named defendant in the Illinois suits, told WSJ that the Supreme Court “has never interpreted the Second Amendment to include an unrestricted right to carry a concealed gun in public.”
To read more, visit: http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2011/08/01/suits-push-for-greater-gun-rights-in-public/
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