One gun group is willing to take the fight for gun rights to deep blue areas, even in territories that are usually far from the most welcoming for gun owners.
Here are a few cases the Second Amendment Foundation is engaged in from coast-to-coast.
New York – Prohibition on Carrying Firearms in Houses of Worship
Following this summer’s monumental Supreme Court case, NYSRPA v. Bruen, Democrat politicians in the State of New York were forced to revisit the restrictive policies of their state government that existed to keep law-abiding gun owners from exercising their constitutional rights.
This was done in a special legislative session called by Governor Kathy Hochul in Albany, where legislators decided to restrict the carrying of guns in a number of so-called “sensitive areas” – including churches. It was also done with blatant disregard for the fact that armed parishioners have saved lives when churches have been attacked in the past.
Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation wrote in a news release shared by his organization that:
“For more than a century, New York was able to maintain an unconstitutional prohibition on
the exercise of Second Amendment rights by honest citizens. Even after the Supreme Court struck down that restriction, the state has been scrambling to continue keeping its citizens disarmed by any means necessary.
New York’s new gun control law essentially allows the state to thumb its nose at the high court, and this has to
stop.”
Now, his group is fighting that ban and has filed additional arguments to accompany a previously filed preliminary injunction “to go along with the temporary restraining order granted by the court against the State of New York’s enforcement of a “place of worship” firearms ban, telling the federal court “the State’s Place of Worship Ban remains unconstitutional.”
California – Law Discouraging Challenging Unconstitutional Laws
California’s latest ploy to restrict the constitutional rights of law-abiding Americans comes in the form of a “new law that includes a one-way fee-shifting penalty to discourage lawsuits against restrictive gun laws” in the form of Section 1021.11 of the California Penal Code.
The Second Amendment Foundation’s Alan Gottlieb said in a recent media release that California Attorney General Rob Bonta is “trying to have it both ways” but that “he simply cannot protest a law he considers unconstitutional by enforcing another law which is equally unconstitutional in what amounts to a childish political snit that began with California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California legislature.”
The plaintiffs in the injunction are alleging that the law “violates the First Amendment right to petition the government for a redress of grievances” and that the “statute also discriminates against gun rights plaintiffs in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, according to the lawsuit.”
California – Ban on Weapons on City of Glendale Property
The city of Glendale currently bans the possession of guns on city-owned property – a move that even doesn’t make exceptions for concealed carry permit holders and “essentially turns much if not most of the city into a gun-free zone where Second Amendment rights do not exist” – according to a statement made by Gottlieb in a recent news release made by SAF.
His team is standing up to the big government bullies once again, and they have “filed a federal lawsuit asking declaratory and injunctive relief against the City of Glendale, Calif., its police chief and city clerk. The case is known as CRPA v. Glendale.“
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Hooray NY
At MINIMUM, the law should permit places of worship to CHOOSE to allow guns. An outright ban violates the 1st amendment prohibition against laws prohibiting the free exercise of religion.
Note: I didn’t say any religion promotes guns. I stated that the 1st amendment prohibits the government from making such choices for religious groups.