1. BALTIMORE (AP) Marylands requirement that residents show a good and substantial reason to get a handgun permit is unconstitutional, according to a federal judges opinion filed Monday.
2. States can channel the way their residents exercise their Second Amendment right to bear arms...infringing upon residents rights, U.S. District Judge Benson Everett Legg wrote.
3. A citizen may not be required to offer a `good and substantial reason why he should be permitted to exercise his rights, he wrote. The rights existence is all the reason he needs.
4. Plaintiff Raymond Woollard obtained a handgun permit after fighting with an intruder in his Hampstead home in 2002, but was denied a renewal in 2009 because he could not show he had been subject to threats occurring beyond his residence.
5. ...rejected by the review board, which found he hadnt demonstrated a good and substantial reason to carry a handgun as a reasonable precaution.
6. People have the right to carry a gun for self-defense and dont have to prove that theres a special reason for them to seek the permit, said his attorney Alan Gura,...
7. Marylands Attorney Generals office was still reviewing the opinion and declined to comment immediately.
8. Most states that choose to regulate the right to bear arms have licensing systems that are objective and straightforward, Gura said. Thats all that we want for Maryland.
Md. Gun Law Found Unconstitutional « CBS Baltimore
2. States can channel the way their residents exercise their Second Amendment right to bear arms...infringing upon residents rights, U.S. District Judge Benson Everett Legg wrote.
3. A citizen may not be required to offer a `good and substantial reason why he should be permitted to exercise his rights, he wrote. The rights existence is all the reason he needs.
4. Plaintiff Raymond Woollard obtained a handgun permit after fighting with an intruder in his Hampstead home in 2002, but was denied a renewal in 2009 because he could not show he had been subject to threats occurring beyond his residence.
5. ...rejected by the review board, which found he hadnt demonstrated a good and substantial reason to carry a handgun as a reasonable precaution.
6. People have the right to carry a gun for self-defense and dont have to prove that theres a special reason for them to seek the permit, said his attorney Alan Gura,...
7. Marylands Attorney Generals office was still reviewing the opinion and declined to comment immediately.
8. Most states that choose to regulate the right to bear arms have licensing systems that are objective and straightforward, Gura said. Thats all that we want for Maryland.
Md. Gun Law Found Unconstitutional « CBS Baltimore
