Pro-2A Group Sues Oregon Over Out-Of-State Permit Recognition

A pro-Second Amendment group filed a lawsuit against Oregon on behalf of one of its lobbyists, accusing the state of leaving no way for non-residents to carry firearms for personal protection.

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Gun Owners of America (GOA) and the group’s Oregon state director, Cynthia Ladd, sued the city of Salem, Oregon, and Marion County, Oregon, Sheriff Nick Hunter Friday in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon, demanding that the state’s ban on non-residents carrying firearms be ruled a violation of the Second Amendment. In the , it noted that for over four-fifths of Americans, there was no option to carry firearms in the state. (RELATED: It Cost One Man This Insane Amount To Legally Carry Gun Across US)

“Oregon seems to believe that your constitutional rights come with a residency requirement, but the Second Amendment protects the rights of all Americans,” GOA Senior Vice President Erich Pratt told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “Law-abiding gun owners should not lose their right to carry a firearm for self-defense simply because they cross a state line.”

Oregon does not recognize any other state’s concealed carry permit, according to the National Rifle Association.

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A similar case centered on out-of-state residents could be considered by the Supreme Court. Liberty Justice Center filed a on Aug. 24 asking the high court to hear Johnson v. Jacobsen, regarding Minnesota’s refusal to recognize a long-haul truck driver’s concealed carry permits from Florida and Georgia.

Attorneys for the state of Massachusetts failed to convince a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit that accused the state of delaying the processing of carry permits for out of state residents. In an Aug. 28 , Chief United States District Judge Denise Casper of the District of Massachusetts, an Obama appointee, allowed the litigation to proceed

In June, the Supreme Court narrowed the applicability of a federal law prohibiting users of marijuana roughly a week before it issued its ruling in Wolford v. Lopez, a ruling that struck down Hawaii’s “vampire rule” targeting concealed carry.

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