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IL: An Illinois court takes an extreme view of the Second Amendment
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But gun rights advocates are not content with eliminating stringent regulations on firearms ownership and use. They oppose minimal ones as well. An Illinois circuit court judge recently ruled that the state’s requirement of a license to own a gun is unconstitutional, at least when applied to someone keeping a firearm at home.
The case arose after sheriff’s deputies in downstate Carmi responded to a report of shots fired inside the home of Vivian Claudine Brown. Though they found no evidence of shots fired, they did find a rifle in her bedroom. |
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PHORTO
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"The requirement didn’t exclude Brown from the Second Amendment any more than parade permits exclude protesters from the First Amendment."
Facially false. Parades and protests happen in public spaces, and are subject to the state's just police powers, within reason, to maintain the peace.
There is no comparison to a peaceable person with no criminal or mental history possessing a firearm on private property. Permits to purchase or possess arms are blatantly unconstitutional, and this judge got it right.
It ain't rocket science. |
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