{"id":1745500,"date":"2022-11-20T06:11:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T11:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1745500"},"modified":"2022-11-20T08:03:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T13:03:12","slug":"3-supreme-court-justices-now-live-in-maryland-county-gun-free-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/3-supreme-court-justices-now-live-in-maryland-county-gun-free-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Supreme Court Justices Now Live in Maryland County Gun Free Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F3-supreme-court-justices-now-live-in-maryland-county-gun-free-zone%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1745500&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-maryland\">Maryland<\/a> county that is home to three U.S. Supreme Court justices who voted in June that the Second Amendment right to carry a gun outside the home cannot be easily restricted just passed a new law to contradict their ruling. The Montgomery County Council voted unanimously this week to restrict legal concealed carry permit holders from possessing a gun within 100 yards of places of \u201cpublic assembly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Justices John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and Neil Gorsuch are all Montgomery County residents and voted in the majority of the landmark decision in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/supreme-court-strikes-down-new-yorks-unconstitutional-concealed-carry-gun-law_4553435.html\">New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen<\/a>\u00a0that forced states with restrictive carry laws to rewrite them or face new court challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The new bill (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.montgomerycountymd.gov\/council\/Resources\/Files\/agenda\/col\/2022\/20221115\/20221115_4B.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) will go into effect immediately after it is signed, which is expected, by Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich, a Democrat. It will make it virtually impossible for a person with a Maryland Wear and Carry permit to go outside and avoid the 100-yard zones around all the places restricted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPermit holders are the most law-abiding people on the face of the planet. They are not the problem,\u201d Mark Pennak, a constitutional attorney and the president of the pro-Second Amendment group Maryland Shall Issue,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LN3Db8DWlWE&#038;feature=youtu.be\">said<\/a> in an interview after the bill passed.<\/p>\n<h2>Gun Free Zones<\/h2>\n<p>The liberal county council fast-tracked Bill 21-22 to remove the exemption for the increasing number of lawful concealed carry permit holders to carry a gun in public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI continue to believe that guns create immeasurably more problems, often with tragic outcomes, than they attempt to solve,\u201d Montgomery County Council President Gabe Albornoz, a Democrat, said in a statement after the vote. \u201cThis legislation will help to ensure that we do everything possible to minimize the number of guns in our public space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pennak said, \u201cThey disagree with the Supreme Court ruling, and they\u2019re perfectly entitled to do so. But what they\u2019re not allowed to do is write their disagreement into law and thereby criminalize people who have a constitutional right.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Sensitive Places Expanded<\/h2>\n<p>The Supreme Court ruling, written by Justice Clarence Thomas, says that states and local jurisdictions cannot arbitrarily cite places as \u201csensitive\u201d to prohibit the Second Amendment right to bear arms. He wrote, \u201cThere is no historical basis for New York to effectively declare the island of Manhattan a \u2018sensitive place\u2019 simply because it is crowded and protected generally by the New York City Police Department.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The justices wrote that there are five places considered \u201csensitive\u201d where carrying guns could be prohibited because there is a historical precedent: schools, legislative assemblies, government buildings, polling places, and courthouses.<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery County made those five places prohibited and then made it illegal to possess or even transport a gun in all kinds of other places of \u201cpublic assembly.\u201d The bill defines those places in a long list that includes public and private parks, libraries, hospitals, places of worship, recreational facilities, community health centers, long-term facilities, fairgrounds, nursing homes, childcare centers, and parking lots around those places.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is certainly nothing in Bruen that allows them to include a buffer zone around those places. And there\u2019s certainly nothing in Bruen to designate\u2014beyond those five\u2014that the county has now deemed to be gun-free zones completely,\u201d said Pennak. \u201cThey went way overboard.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4600166\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-1241188561-Large-1200x800-1.jpeg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4600166\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-large wp-image-4600166\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-1241188561-Large-1200x800-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4600166\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-1241188561-Large-1200x800-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Protesters march past Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s home in Chevy Chase, Md., on June 8, 2022. (Nathan Howard\/Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<h2>Increase Gun Carry Permits<\/h2>\n<p>Until the Bruen decision, there were few Wear and Carry permit holders in Maryland because the state required citizens to prove a \u201cgood and substantial reason\u201d for having one. But after the Supreme Court ruling that New York\u2019s proper cause requirement for a concealed carry permit was unconstitutional, Maryland shifted from what was called \u201cmay issue\u201d to \u201cshall issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan directed the Maryland State Police that permits would be approved after applicants did 16 hours of training, passed a background check, were fingerprinted, and paid a fee. There have been thousands of new applications for permits since the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery County politicians believe that these legal permit holders are a threat to society and thus need to be restricted. Albornoz <a href=\"https:\/\/content.govdelivery.com\/accounts\/MDMONTGOMERY\/bulletins\/3380c79?reqfrom=share\/\">stated<\/a>, \u201cI have confidence that the Maryland General Assembly will take action but given the urgency of gun violence in our community, I felt strongly that we could not wait at the local level.\u201d He cited a total of 11 homicides by firearm in the county in 2022, none of which were by legal permit holders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we are talking about permit holders, especially in Maryland, we are talking about some of the most vetted people that exist in our society. These are people who pass substantial and expensive background checks,\u201d Daniel Carlin-Weber, a board member of Maryland Shall Issue, told the council when he testified against the bill. \u201cThe idea the county council wants to criminalize all these people that may simply go to a place where the public may assemble\u2014or within 100 yards of it\u2014is beyond absurd.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Justices in Danger<\/h2>\n<p>It is not publicly known if the Supreme Court justices have carry permits, but this new local law banning people from carrying in public would apply to them too.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Supreme Court leak last spring that Roe v. Wade was going to be overturned, pro-abortion activists have continually protested outside the homes of the justices in Maryland and Virginia. They are breaking federal law (Title 18, Section 1507) that makes it illegal to picket or parade outside a jurist\u2019s home \u201cwith the intent of influencing any judge.\u201d In addition, there is a Montgomery County law against doing this. But the laws are not being enforced, even after the arrest of a man charged with attempting to assassinate Kavanaugh.<\/p>\n<p>Over the summer, Supreme Court Marshal Gail Curley sent a public letter to Gov. Hogan and\u00a0County Executive Elrich and asked them to enforce the laws against picketing in front of the justices\u2019 homes. Elrich responded with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NJoVbLj4AWA\">video statement <\/a> calling the letter \u201cirresponsible,\u201d \u201cnot a smart thing to do,\u201d and \u201ctheatrics.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Court Gun Battles<\/h2>\n<p>Maryland Shall Issue already has a lawsuit in federal district court against Montgomery County\u2019s 2021 gun law prohibiting the possession of firearms outside the home. Pennak said he will amend the suit to include these new prohibitions against lawful carry permit holders. He said he asked the county counsel for consent to amend the complaint, which was granted.<\/p>\n<p>Albornoz said during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i_H2cLLD2nY&#038;t=7983s\">the bill\u2019s vote<\/a> that he believes it is in line with the Supreme Court ruling: \u201cWe went as far as we could. I wish we could have gone further.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pennak said the council could believe it is constitutional, but most likely the council is \u201cso ideologically driven by their sincerely held hatred for firearms that they believe that resistance to the Supreme Court\u2019s decision is justified.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-emily-miller\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Emily-Miller.jpg\" alt=\"Emily Miller\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bio\">Emily Miller is an award-winning investigative journalist and author in Washington, D.C. Her newsletter &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.emilypostnews.com\/\">Emily Posts News<\/a>&#8221; gives readers original, exclusive reporting and insider analysis.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maryland county that is home to three U.S. Supreme Court justices who voted in June that the Second Amendment right to carry a gun outside the home cannot be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1745503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1745500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1745500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1745503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}