BradAnderson
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I'd like to propose a nationwide class-action federal lawsuit against all state CCW laws. Essentially, federal case-law has defined the right of "Privacy" as being "the right to be free from public scrutiny," and it outlaws any state laws which infringe on this right.
CCW laws clearly belong in this category, since they expose a person to public scrutiny in the bearing of arms-- which is a right in many states, guaranteed under their state constitutions.
If we got together and mounted such a lawsuit in federal court, then we could end state CCW laws in all of these states whose Constitutions guarantee the right to keep and bear arms for self-defense-- including my home state of Michigan, where such a right is guaranteed under the state Constitution, Article I section 6.
While federal courts have been hypocritical in protecting gun-rights, claiming that states have a carte-blanche to trounce them regardless of the Second Amendment (which they consider as nothing but a state's right to a militia, despite prior Supreme Court case-law implying that states have no such right), the federal courts are less fickle about the right of Privacy, which they consider more important than the right to bear arms.
Essentially, we'll find a suitable law-firm willing to take the case. If we get enough people contributing in each state, then we can overturn it based on constitutional premises of the right to privacy, rather than the right to bear arms.
CCW laws clearly belong in this category, since they expose a person to public scrutiny in the bearing of arms-- which is a right in many states, guaranteed under their state constitutions.
If we got together and mounted such a lawsuit in federal court, then we could end state CCW laws in all of these states whose Constitutions guarantee the right to keep and bear arms for self-defense-- including my home state of Michigan, where such a right is guaranteed under the state Constitution, Article I section 6.
While federal courts have been hypocritical in protecting gun-rights, claiming that states have a carte-blanche to trounce them regardless of the Second Amendment (which they consider as nothing but a state's right to a militia, despite prior Supreme Court case-law implying that states have no such right), the federal courts are less fickle about the right of Privacy, which they consider more important than the right to bear arms.
Essentially, we'll find a suitable law-firm willing to take the case. If we get enough people contributing in each state, then we can overturn it based on constitutional premises of the right to privacy, rather than the right to bear arms.