Maine: The Second Amendment is Your Gun Permit!

[Jeff]

Good for Maine !!!

The Second Amendment ought to be everyone's carry permit, but of course we have the criminal element so the way they are doing it is great, you must have a background check to purchase a weapon but the Second is your permit to carry it. That way no one with a felony is buying a weapon ( although I am sure there will be some that slide through the cracks, but guess what they already do, and criminals don't follow the rules anyway )

Yes there are those predicting how this will ruin the state :laugh: get a grip nit wits, people in rural Maine are carrying now.


In an amazing and perhaps a bit surprising win for freedom, the legislators in the deeply purple state of Maine have just passed a bill that would abolish the need for concealed carry permits (http://www.pressherald.com/2015/06/01/in-key-vote-maine-house-oks-carrying-concealed-handguns-without-permit/) and allow residents (over the age of 21) to carry firearms freely (http://joshuamark5.com/2014/07/ryan-croft-joshua-mk5-arak-hybrid-rifle/).



http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/06/maine-the-second-amendment-is-your-gun-permit/

[indago]

If an individual is exercising a right, and the legislature has passed a law which disposes of this right, and "authorities" have charged the individual with violating the law, the method of retaining the right is shown in our history as appearing before "the people", which would be the jury of twelve of his neighbors in the community, and declaring the right that he was exercising. The jury is obligated, then, to uphold this right and to declare the "law" unconstitutional and to find the individual not guilty of violating any law, the law passed by the legislature being unconstitutional and of no force, and not at the moment declared by a judge or jury to be unconstitutional, but since its inception. In many cases, a "gun control law" has never appeared before a jury to be declared unconstitutional, but declared to be constitutional by a judge, the individual then penalized. And, in many cases, a judge will "instruct" the jury on the "law", leaving the right to dangle, exposed to the whim of prosecutor and judge. A prosecutor must win his case, and will usually try just about anything to win. If he does not win, the individual may bring a "malicious prosecution" case against him, and, in the State of Michigan, he may win "treble damages" if he prevails. This is the procedural way that the Right to Keep and Bear Arms will be upheld by the people.