President Donald Trump’s DOJ filed suit against San Jose, California, Wednesday over the city’s “presumptively unconstitutional” Carry Concealed Weapons (CCW) license fee.
\n\nIn the complaint, the DOJ pointed out that San Jose’s fee is almost $1,600 and noted the “exorbitant” fee cannot survive the Bruen (2022) test, as “there is no plausible claim that San Jose’s punitive $1,591 fee accords with the nation’s firearm regulatory tradition.”
\n\nThe DOJ claims San Jose’s “purpose” with the fee is “making it impractical for middle class citizens and impossible for low-income citizens to exercise their Second Amendment rights.”
\n\nMoreover, the DOJ intimates it has the connotative effect of treating Second Amendment rights as second-class inasmuch as “charging a prohibitive fee would be unthinkable in other constitutional contexts.” In other words, it would be unthinkable to have to pay nearly $1,600 for a permit to exercise freedom of speech, or religion, or the press.
\n\nKRON4 quoted Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon saying, “All law-abiding Americans have a constitutional right to bear arms for self-defense. This right is not a luxury reserved for a privileged few, but a fundamental element of our republic.”
\n\nDhillon added, “You don’t need a law degree to recognize…
Original source: https://breitbart.com/
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