It’s a new year – and that means new gun laws go into effect across the nation. So how fares the right to keep and bear arms as we go into 2024? More than a dozen states made changes to how they interpret the Second Amendment.
Don’t Take Your Guns to Town
The controversial Senate Bill 2, which became law in California on January 1 of this year, bans even those with concealed carry licenses from carrying their firearms at a bevy of public places like bars, houses of worship, parks, public events, stadiums, casinos, financial institutions, medical facilities, and on public transportation. The new gun control law was blocked on December 26, 2023, by a US district judge who called it “repugnant to the Second Amendment,” but a federal appeals court stayed the ruling, allowing the law to take effect for now. This stay is temporary, however, pending the results of the litigation….
