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Should You Need a Reason to Carry Concealed?

July 31, 2017 By E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy

From San Diego, California to right here in little Rhode Island, laws are being challenged that force Americans to prove they “need” to have a concealed carry permit. Typical needs include carrying a lot of cash for work, or having a current restraining order against a dangerous person, or some other reason to fear for your life. But shouldn’t Americans be allowed to carry concealed simply for self-defense?

There are 15 states today that have “constitutional carry” laws, allowing any non-criminal adult to legally carry with certain restrictions. No license needed. Despite what anti-gun advocates would have you think, these states have not devolved into chaos. Personal safety stalwarts Vermont and New Hampshire are both constitutional carry states.

Current law says it’s OK for states to require a license to carry, but the law about how states can give out those licenses is less clear. Should states be allowed to require a need? Or should they give anyone who is of good character a license on demand?

That question is being asked in a number of court cases around the country right now, and the Supreme Court will ultimately be forced to answer it. A recent decision in Washington D.C. was a win for gun rights advocates. Damon Root reports on the issue for Reason.com.

Second Amendment advocates scored a significant legal victory today when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit blocked Washington, D.C., from enforcing a law that effectively bars most D.C. residents from lawfully carrying handguns in public. “The Second Amendment,” the court declared, “erects some absolute barriers that no gun law may breach.”

The case was Wrenn v. District of Columbia (consolidated with Grace v. District of Columbia). At issue was a District of Columbia regulation that limited conceal-carry licenses only to those individuals who can demonstrate, to the satisfaction of the chief of police, that they have a “good reason” to carry a handgun in public. According to the District, applicants for a conceal-carry license must show a “special need for self-protection distinguishable from the general community as supported by evidence of specific threats or previous attacks that demonstrate a special danger to the applicant’s life.” Living or working “in a high crime area shall not by itself establish a good reason.”

The D.C. Circuit weighed those regulations against the text and history of the Second Amendment and found the regulations to be constitutionally deficient. “At the Second Amendment’s core lies the right of responsible citizens to carry firearms for personal self-defense beyond the home, subject to longstanding restrictions,” the D.C. Circuit held. “These traditional limits include, for instance, licensing requirements, but not bans on carrying in urban areas like D.C. or bans on carrying absent a special need for self-defense.” The court added: “The Amendment’s core at a minimum shields the typically situated citizen’s ability to carry common arms generally. The District’s good-reason law is necessarily a total ban on exercises of that constitutional right for most D.C. residents. That’s enough to sink this law under” District of Columbia v. Heller, the 2008 case that struck down D.C.’s total ban on handguns.

Today’s decision by the D.C. Circuit widens an already gaping split among the federal courts on this issue. According to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, “the Second Amendment does not protect in any degree the right to carry concealed firearms in public.” By contrast, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit says that “one doesn’t need to be a historian to realize that a right to keep and bear arms in the eighteenth century could not rationally have been limited to the home.”

Read more here.

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E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy
E.J. Smith is Founder of YourSurvivalGuy.com, Managing Director at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd., a Managing Editor of Richardcyoung.com, and Editor-in-Chief of Youngresearch.com. His focus at all times is on preparing clients and readers for “Times Like These.” E.J. graduated from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a B.S. in finance and investments. In 1995, E.J. began his investment career at Fidelity Investments in Boston before joining Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. in 1998.

E.J. has trained at Sig Sauer Academy in Epping, NH, NH, where he completed course-work in Practical and Defensive Handgun, Conceal Carry Pistol, Shotguns, Precision Scope Rifle and Kidnapping Prevention.

E.J. plays a Yamaha Recording Custom drum set with Zilldjian cymbals. His first drum set was a 5-piece Slingerland with Zildjians. He grew-up worshiping Neil Peart (RIP) of the band Rush, and loves the song Tom Sawyer—the name of his family’s boat, a Grady-White Canyon 306. He grew up in Mattapoisett, MA, an idyllic small town on the water near Cape Cod. He spends time in Newport, RI and Bartlett, NH—both as far away from Wall Street as one could mentally get. The Newport office is on a quiet, tree lined street not far from the harbor and the log cabin in Bartlett, NH, the “Live Free or Die” state, sits on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest. He enjoys spending time in Key West and Paris.

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