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IN: Legislators Consider ‘Constitutional Carry’ for Hoosiers
 Submitted by: David Williamson
 Website: http://libertyparkpress.com

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A push to allow Hoosiers to carry handguns without a license was the focus of a nearly five-hour committee hearing at the statehouse Tuesday. "Constitutional carry" is based on the idea that the Second Amendment already gives people the right to carry a handgun, so additional steps such as licensing are unnecessary. State representative Jim Lucas (R-District 69) authored a bill during the last legislative session to repeal the law that requires Hoosiers to have a gun permit. The bill was sent to committee for further discussion.
 
Comment by: PHORTO (8/23/2017)
Re: “Constitutional carry” is based on the idea that the Second Amendment already gives people the right to carry a handgun, so additional steps such as licensing are unnecessary.

This is a misstatement of fact. The principle is that the Second Amendment codifies a preexisting right, and exists to prohibit the government from restricting it.

Re: “I would just plea, as a member of a community, that individual rights need to be balanced against rights of the community,” said Rachel Guglielmo.

“We know of no other enumerated constitutional right whose core protection has been subjected to a freestanding ‘interest-balancing’ approach. The very enumeration of the right takes [it] out of the hands of government[.]” – D.C. v. Heller (2008)
 
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The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to Congress a power to disarm the people. Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under some general pretense by a state legislature. But if in any blind pursuit of inordinate power, either should attempt it, this amendment may be appealed to as a restraint on both. — William Rawle, A View of the Constitution 125-6 (2nd ed. 1829)

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