U.S. District Court Judge Benson Everett Legg (I like him for the name alone – you know, like ‘HogLeg’ add a ‘g’), has ruled today in the Maryland District Court, that Maryland residents do not need to provide a ‘good and substantial’ reason to obtain a handgun permit. In so doing, Judge Legg – a Bush (H.W.) appointee, rendered existing Maryland State law in violation of the United States Constitution. “A citizen may not be required to offer a `good and substantial reason’ why he should be permitted to exercise his rights,” he wrote. “The right’s existence is all the reason he needs.” He indicated that the intent of the law appeared to be a method of rationing a right that is clearly not dependent on the judgment of a government official.
“People have the right to carry a gun for self-defense and don’t have to prove that there’s a special reason for them to seek the permit,” said Plaintiff Raymond Woolard’s attorney Alan Gura, who has challenged handgun bans in the District of Columbia and Chicago. “We’re not against the idea of a permit process, but the licensing system has to acknowledge that there’s a right to bear arms.”
Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.) says he has reintroduced a bill to ensure the ability of all law abiding Americans to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
“I applaud U.S. District Judge Benson Everett Legg for upholding our Constitution’s Second Amendment right for law-abiding Marylanders to own and use a handgun in defense of themselves and their family. Unfortunately, there are other local jurisdictions that restrict this Constitutional right.”
“That is why I have reintroduced the Citizens’ Self-Defense Act, H.R. 2252. As Judge Legg correctly ruled, the burden should be on the government to prove that an American is unfit to exercise this Constitutional right. Law abiding Americans should not have to prove to governments that they have a need to own and use a gun to defend themselves and their family members.”
Nationally, Americans are weaponing up at an unprecedented rate. Last year, the FBI reports that it received more than 16.3 million inquiries from gun dealers running criminal background checks on potential firearm purchasers. That’s up from 12.7 million in 2008 and 11.4 million in 2007, FBI records show. I’ve listed more detailed statistics from the FBI at the end of this article.*
My interpretation of this (and that of firearm merchants across the country) is that Obama is seen as a looming threat to the 2nd Amendment rights of Americans – and increasingly so with the all too possible prospect of a Barack Hussein Obama ‘lame duck’ second term in the White House. The core constituencies of the Democrat party and of the Obama administration are anti-gun. Anti-gun for law abiding citizens, that is. Look at where Obama comes from – Chicago, where there is a constant effort to infringe on residents, but the authorities are notoriously soft on career criminals.
I’ve told you that I have numerous reservations about the remaining four candidates for the GOP nomination for President – but despite that, we must see to it that one of them becomes our next President. Why? Well, I’ll let Michelle Obama, my Blasted Fools poster girl explain – as she did at one of her husband’s recent fundraising events:
“We stand at a fundamental crossroads for our country. You’re here because you know that in just 13 months, we’re going to make a choice that will impact our lives for decades to come … let’s not forget what it meant when my husband appointed those two brilliant Supreme Court justices … let’s not forget the impact that their decisions will have on our lives for decades to come.”
2010 / 14.4m
Kentucky, 2.4 million;
Texas, 968,071;
California, 816,399
2009 / 14million
Kentucky, 2.2 million;
Texas, 1 million;
California, 788,164
2008 / 12.7million
Kentucky, 1.9 million;
Texas, 944,568;
California, 780,398
2007 / 11.4million
Kentucky, 1.6 million;
California, 855,943;
Texas 783,596
2006 / 10million
Kentucky, 791,599;
Texas, 770,236;
California, 617,820
2005 / 8.9million
Texas, 738,793;
California, 611,022;
Illinois, 527,134
Blasted Fools 
noremac7
March 6, 2012
You see, I tried to stay within the boundaries of good taste with the photo and the whole thing and here you go trying to coax me to step over the line. Well, I’m not going to do it, however tempting it might be at the moment. I’ve got to think along the lines of W.W.R.D., (What Would Rush Do?). hahaha
Also, I think we’re ready for whatever they want to bring. By my rudimentary math skills, I calculate that at least since 2005, based on an assumption that 80 percent of the background checks led to arms purchases, approximately 4.2 million great grandchildren of Colonel Colt and Eliphalet Remington II were added to the collective freedom arsenal of the Golden State. I count on you adding to this year’s statistics.
Michael
March 5, 2012
I’m not sure about this but was that girl holding something? Hear that sound (a distant muffled roar)? That’s the sound of unemployed, hoodlum Marylanders migrating to California.