A Massachusetts man, Randy Westbrook, who was denied a license to carry by Holyoke Police Chief David Pratt, is taking his Second Amendment case to the commonwealth’s Supreme Judicial Court. It is yet another example of anti-gun (read, Democrat-controlled) states defying US Supreme Court opinions. Put simply, the nation’s highest Court ruled in the 2022 case N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen that decisions on whether to issue state-mandated gun licenses must be based on objective standards. This is not how it currently works in Massachusetts, where police chiefs or other licensing officials can legally dream up any excuse to deny constitutional rights.
The case is practically identical to a legal fight in New Jersey recently reported on by Liberty Nation News. As in the Garden State, Massachusetts law regarding the issuance of gun permits allows officials to deny them for vague and subjective reasons.
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