Originally Posted by jwp475

I tend to agree that requiring a permit is dening a part of ones second amendment rights, but we lost that one decades ago. Why should one need a permit to exercise his 2nd amendment rights? He shouldn't, IMHO. I am no lawyer and did not stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night.


It's actually never been litigated all the way up, so we haven't "lost" anything on it yet.

The SCOTUS has ruled that we have a "right to travel" within the unenumerated rights protected by the Bill of Rights. Yet, we still have to comply with laws and regulations around permitted operation of a motor vehicle in accordance with that right; the operation is a privilege attendant to the right. CHP, for now, is considered the same. The OP lost that privilege when he committed an illegal act while in the uniformed armed services and received a discharge that is not compliant with the statutes that grant permits attendant to the Second Amendment.

He is not denied his Second Amendment rights; only the privilege to carry concealed in that state or any other state that requires a permit. There are Constitutional Carry states that he would be permitted to carry concealed while in or a resident thereof.


Originally Posted by Mannlicher
America needs to understand that our troops are not 'disposable'. Each represents a family; Fathers, Mothers, Sons, Daughters, Cousins, Uncles, Aunts... Our Citizens are our most valuable treasure; we waste far too many.