Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Trump’s Gun Agenda Could Bring Armed Tourists to the Streets of New York City

 

If you want to carry a loaded gun around the streets of Virginia, you need to take a short online gun-safety course. If you want to do so in New York City, you need to complete an arduous, expensive application and demonstrate a specific need for such a weapon.

But in Donald Trump’s America, a Virginian could legally bring a loaded gun to Times Square by taking route No. 1: The president-elect has argued that concealed-carry permits from any state “should be valid in all 50 states” — and the gun lobby hopes to pass that principle into law as soon as possible, The Guardian reports.

For groups like the National Rifle Association and the Second Amendment Foundation, allowing gun owners to fearlessly carry their firearms across state lines is the “civil rights” struggle of our time (as, once again, the enemies of liberty invoke “states rights” in a cynical bid to maintain oppression). 

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Source: New York Mag (via The Empire Report)

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