CCRKBA FILES AMICUS IN SCOTUS OUT-OF-STATE CARRY PERMIT CASE

BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm that the right to bear arms does not disappear when a law-abiding citizen crosses a state line.

After CCRKBA’s amicus brief in Viramontes v. Cook County (Illinois) and Grant v. Higgins (Connecticut) concerning “assault weapons”, CCRKBA has now joined an amicus brief filed with the Supreme Court in Johnson v. Jacobson, a case challenging Minnesota’s refusal to recognize valid concealed-carry permits issued by other states. The brief urges the high court to hear the case and reverse an Eighth Circuit ruling which upheld Minnesota’s requirement that nonresidents obtain a separate Minnesota carry permit.

“The Constitution doesn’t become optional every time an American crosses a state line,” said CCRKBA Executive Director Andrew Gottlieb. “Minnesota is willing to recognize some carry permits issued by other states while rejecting others, forcing lawful gun owners into a confusing patchwork of government mandates.

“Americans should not have to navigate fifty different bureaucracies to determine whether exercising a constitutional right will turn them into a criminal when they cross a state border,” he continued. “That is exactly the kind of undue burden the Supreme Court should eliminate.” …