Liberals claim minorities cannot easily obtain photo IDs,
therefore it is discrimination to demand a photo ID for
Posted on 07/10/2013 5:33:04 PM PDT by neverdem
NEW YORK - (AP) -- A federal appeals court gave the green light Tuesday to a law permitting New York City to charge hundreds of dollars for a gun licensing fee that costs $3 to $10 elsewhere in the state,
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said the $340 handgun fee for a three-year license was legal for the same reasons that fees imposed on those seeking to stage a rally or a parade are constitutional.
"Imposing fees on the exercise of constitutional rights is permissible when the fees are designed to defray (and do not exceed) the administrative costs of regulating the protected activity," the appeals court said...
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
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Someone needs to send the clowns on the Second Circus a copy of the Bill or Rights.
OK, enact a voter license fee and use this judgement as precedent. Bet the judge that OK’d a gun license fee would blow a major artery.
They are as legal as poll taxes.
Given the logic in this ruling, a poll tax should be A-OK.
So? Don’t pay it.
Screw em.
Its really time to practice some hardcore civil disobediance.
There needn't be any administrative costs to regulate a protected activity...that's what "protective activity" (constitutional right) means you dolts. Sadly, our Constitution has long ago been rendered meaningless.
Problem is the Empire State will practice hardcore oppression in return. You willing to play?
How is a charge wildly above the actual service cost different in concept from a poll tax? Both exist to restrict access through unaffordability.
“Given the logic in this ruling, a poll tax should be A-OK.”
As usual, Dem laws and policies hurt the poor the most. The more the Dem’s crap on the poor the stronger their alleigence to the Dem’s. go figure....
Check this story from upstate NY.
they will take it electronically. no problem for them.
“long train of abuses....”
Someone needs to send the clowns on the Second Circus a copy of the Bill or Rights.
Too many long words.
In the NYC metro area most people are just fleeing instead. NY and NJ are scrambling to look for revenue sources, and will never stop; they are in a death spiral and they know it.
Correction: Bill OF Rights. Yikes!
And to think in 1838 Frederick Douglass escaped slavery by heading to New York. The entire urban approach to gun control would make the Ku Klux Klan proud.
The Party of Slavery continues its misrule and blacks are the victims. High priced, difficult to get and politically manipulated gun permits. The KKK loved them and implemented them via Jim Crow Justice.
Concealed carry not allowed on public transportaion keeps the poor disarmed and vulnerable. Net, net, net nobody gets off the plantation unless we say so, got it slave?
But voting isn’t dangerous and never got anybody killed!
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