CNSNews.com - Gun Rights Group Challenges N.C. Law Allowing Gun Bans During States of Emergency
(CNSNews.com) - The Second Amendment Foundation, the same group that successfully challenged Chicago’s handgun ban at the U.S. Supreme Court, has now filed a federal lawsuit challenging a North Carolina law that bars private citizens from carrying firearms during declared states of emergency.
The lawsuit, filed Monday, seeks a permanent injunction that would bar the governor, local officials and local governments from declaring states of emergency under which private citizens are prohibited from exercising their right to bear arms.
"Through this lawsuit in North Carolina, we intend to show that state emergency powers statutes that allow government officials to suspend fundamental civil rights, including the right to bear arms, are unconstitutional and therefore should be nullified,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb.
“Citizens do not surrender their civil rights just because of a natural or man-made disaster,” he added.
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