The Second Amendment Law Center, along with the California Rifle & Pistol Association, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Second Amendment Foundation, and the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, have filed an amicus brief in the case of Gardner v. Maryland.
The case challenges the state’s concealed carry laws, which offer no reciprocity for lawful concealed carry permit holders from other states. At issue in the case is a conviction of a Virginia resident on a firearms violation after she displayed her pistol in self-defense during a road rage incident. Despite being a lawful CCW holder in her home state and willfully advising the local police that she had the pistol, she was sentenced to a 30-day suspended sentence and six months of unsupervised probation.
The case highlights the purposeful patchwork of concealed carry laws that unwittingly make criminals out of law-abiding citizens and make it impossible to exercise the right to bear arms nationally. Jurisdictions hostile to gun rights, Maryland in this case, purposely overcomplicate CCW regulations to restrict the rights of lawful citizens.
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