DD"The Supreme Court has struck down New York’s century-old law restricting the carrying of concealed firearms, its first major Second Amendment decision in more than a decade and a ruling that could lead to more guns on the streets."
Legally owned guns, and permits can still be required. Governments cannot ‘withhold’ permits to restrict use of legally owned and carried self protection guns.
Criminals already have easy access and carry guns, of course, illegally. With ‘woke’ DAs, most get a slap on the wrist if caught which is a large part of the problem. If you made illegal possession of a handgun a 2 or 5 year prison term, mandatory, no plea bargain down to ‘disturbing the peace’ or similar, gun crime would plummet and inner cities would be a lot safer. Simply putting away criminals for illegal gun possession or use of a firearm in a felony crime would cut gun violence by 90%. Same for drug dealers - should be charged with ‘criminal enterprise’ and locked away for years in prison.
Convicted Felons cannot legally own a gun of any type. Nor carry one.
There are 5,000 to 20,000 ‘gun laws’ on the books. Most are not enforced or allow ‘plea bargains’ making most useless and keeping few career criminals off the streets. Some federal, some state, even some local.
As Chicago is discovering, being the lead city for ‘gun violence’ is causing major companies to flee the state. 5000 jobs just announced moving to FL. Boeing moving HQ to VA. Caterpillar moving to TX. Retirees bailing out taking a billion in assets from the state. High taxes and a city not safe to be in - well, what did they expect?
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