“The Second Amendment does not just apply to the continental United States and Hawaii,” noted SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “It also applies to territories under U.S. jurisdiction. The issue is a fundamental civil right, not only to possess a handgun, but also to use firearms for self-defense purposes, which is currently banned in the Northern Marianas.”
[“The Second Amendment does not just apply to the continental United States and Hawaii,” noted SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb.]
Did we sell Alaska overnight? ;)
Well I guess now people living in US Overseas Territories have their SCOTUS test case.
LOL, it may “apply” in theory but not in practice. I lived there in 2012 and 2013 and I can tell you flatly that you will be arrested most particularly if your white and you will be put in jail and god only knows when you would get out. The only law down there is what black politicians and legislators and the Governor say is law. The US Constitution is laughable.
Only black folks have guns down there (and not the good ones) and the cops, in most cases, are scared of them. I must say in their defense though that several of them took on several of the bad guys head on at a restaurant back in 2012. Both sides had automatic weapons blazing and the Chief of Police, a white guy was badly hurt. I think one or both perps were killed. Two weeks earlier my daughter and I were serenely eating lunch there.
I left VI because you have no way to defend yourself and IF you a buy a gun and register it with the cops they sell the info to bad guys on the street who come to your condo in the middle of the night (you gave your address on the permit) or whenever they please and hopefully they don’t kill you. Some friends of mine were hacked to death on St. Maarten where I moved to after leaving VI. After the friends died I left. Simple as that.