THE "SENSITIVE AREAS" SCAM

Five months ago, attorneys representing several gun rights organizations filed a petition for an en banc rehearing of a case they've been fighting in California challenging the state's anti-Second Amendment law designating all kinds of public venues to be "sensitive places" where licensed concealed carry is prohibited.

About the same time and all the way across the country, gun rights groups were jumping into a case known as U.S. v. Ayala regarding the indictment of a Florida postal worker who was prosecuted — and cleared by a federal district court — of carrying a firearm in a federal facility.

These cases came shortly after another case called Christian v. Chiumento was challenging New York's prohibition on lawful concealed carry in public parks and all private property open to the public, such as shopping malls, movie theaters, etc.

Likewise, there was a case unfolding in Illinois where the issue was a concealed carry ban on Illinois Public Transit. For many people, it's the only way they can get around, especially to and from work in Chicago and other urban areas. A case known as Schoenthal v. Raoul was making its way through the federal court. Second Amendment proponents maintain the ban is clearly unconstitutional. .....