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  • Fourth Circuit Upholds Maryland Restrictive Licensing System for Gun Carrying

    03/21/2013 1:53:33 PM PDT · by marktwain · 19 replies
    The Volokh Conspiracy ^ | 21 March, 2013 | Eugene Volokh
    The case is Woollard v. Gallagher (4th Cir. Mar. 21, 2013). UPDATE: The court claims that it’s not deciding whether the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms in self-defense extends to carrying a gun outside the home. Rather, the court concludes that, even if such a right exists, Maryland’s licensing scheme — which requires a “good and substantial” reason for a license to carry and which doesn’t treat a general desire for self-defense as an adequate reason — passes intermediate scrutiny. But it seems to me that means the court is thereby deciding that the right to keep...