Monday, March 5, 2012

Heck Of A Day For Gun Rights

Woollard v. Sheridan (D.Md. 2012) is a federal district court decision that ruled that intermediate scrutiny applies to bearing arms outside one's home, and so there are serious limits as to the amount of discretion that may be exercised by a licensing authority concerning carry permits.  This by itself does not abolish all discretionary permit issuance, but licensing authorities are going to have to be a lot more careful than they have been in the past.  It might just end up being simpler to go shall issue, like most states now are.

The Colorado Supreme Court in Regents of the University of Colorado v. Students for Concealed Carry on Campus (Colo. 2012) ruled that the University of Colorado may not prohibit concealed handgun licensees from being armed on campus.  This was decided strictly on statutory grounds, because the Colorado legislature had pre-empted the University of Colorado's authority.

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