A federal judge has ruled that Maryland’s discretionary CCW system is unconstitutional. According to the AP:
“… U.S. District Judge Benson Everett Legg says a requirement that residents show a “good and substantial reason” to carry a handgun infringes their Second Amendment right to bear arms. He says it isn’t sufficiently tailored to the state’s public safety interests …”
This doesn’t do anything immediately for us, but long term this is good news for New York as I believe that Maryland’s law was written using the Sullivan Act as a guide.
Quote Arson Beetle – Good…Good!
This has more info: http://marylandshallissue.org/get-informed/historical-information/racism-maryland-gun-laws/
It does not look like they were written with NY’s laws in mind because they were passed in 1904 but it does contain a phrase similar NY’s “by any person when proper cause exists for the issuance thereof.”
If you recall, we lost the case that the Second Amendment Foundation had in Westchester over the “proper cause.” The case is being appealed as far as I know