Court rules Maryland must honor out-of-state carry permits

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What we know

A court has ruled that Maryland must honor concealed carry permits issued by other states. The decision requires Maryland to recognize out-of-state carry permits.

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⚖ The Constitutional Angle

McDonald made the Second Amendment right binding on the states through the Fourteenth Amendment. Bruen then held that law-abiding citizens have a right to carry handguns publicly for self-defense and struck down New York's proper cause requirement. Maryland's refusal to honor out-of-state permits is a public carry restriction that must be justified by the Nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation.

New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Kevin P. Bruen, Superintendent of New York State Police 597 U.S. 1 (2022)

Vote: 6-3 · Opinion: Thomas

New York's requirement that applicants demonstrate 'proper cause' — a special need for self-protection distinguishable from the general community — to obtain an unrestricted public-carry license violates the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms in public. The Court held the Second Amendment protects a right to carry handguns publicly for self-defense, and rejected the two-step means-end framework lower courts had applied after Heller.

McDonald v. City of Chicago, Illinois 561 U.S. 742 (2010)

Vote: 5-4 · Opinion: Alito

The Second Amendment right recognized in Heller is fully applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment. A four-Justice plurality incorporated the right via the Due Process Clause as fundamental to the Nation's scheme of ordered liberty and deeply rooted in its history and tradition; Justice Thomas supplied the fifth vote via the Privileges or Immunities Clause. The Seventh Circuit's judgment upholding Chicago's and Oak Park's handgun bans was reversed and remanded.

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