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  • Illegal immigrants have no right to arms – court

    Dec 16 (Reuters) – Illegal immigrants do not have a right to bear arms under the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday.

    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, based in Missouri, rejected an appeal brought by Joaquin Bravo Flores, who was charged with possessing a firearm. Agreeing with the 5th Circuit, the court concluded that the protections of the Second Amendment do not extend to undocumented immigrants.

    Executing a search warrant in 2010, police uncovered a semi-automatic handgun in Bravo Flores’ Minneapolis apartment. A grand jury indicted him for being an alien in possession of a firearm in violation of federal law. He was sentenced to three years in prison.

    Bravo Flores tried to dismiss the indictment, arguing that the criminal law barring illegal immigrants from possessing guns is unconstitutional. The U.S. Supreme Court in 2008 recognized an individual right to possess firearms under the Second Amendment. Bravo Flores argued that the Second Amendment’s guarantee of “the right of the people to keep and bear arms” also applied to him and other illegal immigrants.

    His lawyer argued in a court filing that Bravo Flores is a member of “the people,” having come to the country as a teenager and now living with his American citizen partner and their two citizen children.

    The Supreme Court has previously ruled that undocumented immigrants have constitutional rights in criminal cases, including a Sixth Amendment right to trial and Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures.

    Read More. Thomas Reuter’s News and Insight: Illegal immigrants have no right to arms – court

  • Legislation to be Introduced in Georgia to allow CCW Permit holders to Carry on Campus

    CANTON — A Cherokee County state legislator plans to introduce an amendment to a bill that would allow college students who are at least 21 years old to take firearms on campuses.

    Current law already permits those students to have concealed guns in their vehicles.

    State Rep. Sean Jerguson (R-Holly Springs) said his amendment would only apply to licensed concealed gun owners who are over the age of 21.

    The legislator said he was propelled to consider the amendment after recent incidents on two college campuses in Atlanta.

    “I think it’s an appropriate situation … so they can be able to protect themselves from the predators we are seeing,” he said, referring to the recent incidents in which Georgia Tech and Georgia State University students have been robbed at gunpoint.

    Jerguson said he hasn’t determined when he will introduce the amendment, or whether it would apply to Georgia’s public or private colleges, or both.

  • Liberty University in Lynchburg Virginia Removes Gun Ban

    Guns on campus are a sensitive issue in Virginia after the 2008 Virginia Tech incident. Now a private Christian University has removed a ban that previously banned all firearms from campus property. The new policy allows visitors, students, faculty, and staff with valid concealed weapons permits to store weapons in locked cars. Students can also apply for permission from campus police to carry a firearm on the exterior grounds. The policy also allows some faculty and staff to carry weapons inside buildings with permission granted on a case-by-case basis by campus police.

    Read more here…

  • Nevada Passes Law Allowing Firearms in State Parks

    The legislative commission in Nevada has repealed a law that prohibited carrying firearms in State parks. The law still prohibits discharge of a firearm in state parks with obvious exceptions. Nevada state law still protects the rights of self defense of course.

    As you know Federal law in regards to National Parks echos that of State Parks where the National Park is located. That means that the carry of firearms inside of National Parks inside of Nevada are also allowed.