{"id":51702,"date":"2023-08-26T07:26:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T11:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=51702"},"modified":"2023-08-26T07:26:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T11:26:08","slug":"massachusetts-says-something-positive-about-the-second-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=51702","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Says Something Positive About The Second Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, Bearing Arms<\/a> reported the following:<\/p>\n

As FPC (Firearms Policy Coalition) Action Foundation\u2019s Cody J. Wisniewski said on Bearing Arms\u2019 Cam & Co yesterday<\/a>, since the\u00a0Bruen\u00a0<\/em>decision was handed down by the Supreme Court last year we\u2019re starting to see lower courts around the country start to take the Second Amendment a little more seriously. While we\u2019ve still seen some egregiously awful misreadings of\u00a0Bruen<\/em> over the past twelve months, we\u2019ve also seen some major successes, including one case out of Massachusetts that addresses the fact that in many states, your right to keep and bear arms stops at the state line.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As The Reload\u2019s Jake Fogelman reports, a Massachusetts judge recently concluded that the state\u2019s prohibition on non-residents bearing arms for self-defense without first obtaining a temporary license to carry is a violation of their\u00a0Second Amendment rights<\/a>; a stunning development in a state where lawmakers are currently trying to obliterate the 2A rights of gun owners\u00a0inside\u00a0<\/em>the borders as well.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAn individual only loses a constitutional right if he commits an offense or is or has been engaged in certain behavior that is covered by\u00a018 USC section 922<\/em>,\u201d Judge Coffey wrote on August 3rd in\u00a0Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Dean F. Donnell<\/a><\/em>. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t lose that right simply by traveling into an adjoining state whose statute mandates that residents of that state obtain a license prior to exercising their constitutional right. To hold otherwise would inexplicably treat Second Amendment rights differently than other individually held rights. Therefore, the Court finds that GL. 269, sec. (10a) is unconstitutional as applied to this particularly situated defendant and allows the motion to dismiss on that ground.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The ruling could have significant implications for determining the scope of the right to carry a firearm in public. It is one of the first legal decisions to address gun-carry rights across state lines since the Supreme Court recognized a general public carry right in\u00a0New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen<\/em>\u00a0last June. It could fuel gun-rights advocates\u2019 push for the right to travel in all 50 states with firearms in public, also known as \u201cnational reciprocity.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The defendant in the case, Dean Donnell, is a legal resident of New Hampshire. New Hampshire is a permitless gun carry state, meaning anyone 18 years of age or older who can legally possess a firearm may carry it in public openly or concealed. It also issues carry permits to residents for reciprocity purposes. However, Massachusetts does not honor New Hampshire permits.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Judge Coffey\u2019s order does not specify whether or not Donnell had a valid New Hampshire permit, only that he \u201cwas in compliance with his home states laws on the possession of the firearm\u201d when Massachusetts charged him. The law under which he was charged,\u00a0GL. 269, sec. (10a)<\/a>, creates a mandatory minimum sentence of 18 months in prison for anyone convicted of possessing a firearm in public without a license.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Judge Coffey wrote that Donnell\u2019s conduct was \u201cclearly covered by the Second Amendment.\u201d Therefore, under the standard of review set in\u00a0Bruen<\/em>, he said the Government of Massachusetts needed to show a historical tradition \u201crelating to disparate treatment of nonresidents\u201d to uphold the law.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wow. Please follow the link to the article for further details. This is an amazing decision–particularly in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, Bearing Arms reported the following: As FPC (Firearms Policy Coalition) Action Foundation\u2019s Cody J. Wisniewski said on Bearing Arms\u2019 Cam & Co yesterday, since the\u00a0Bruen\u00a0decision was handed down by the Supreme Court last year we\u2019re starting to see … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11901,16915,2283],"class_list":["post-51702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bearing-arms","tag-firearms-policy-coalition-fpc","tag-second-amendment-to-the-united-states-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51703,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51702\/revisions\/51703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}