Michigan is considering move to ban guns inside state Capitol Building

[Bob Butler 54]

(02-10-2021, 07:04 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I remember times when I entered a government building such as a courthouse and had to go through a metal detector and there were signs saying no firearms allowed. You might take the constitutional issue up with such a building in your neck of the woods, Bob. I doubt MA is any more permissive than CA on this.

While the recent Supreme Court case reestablished an individual right exists, there are still a lot of laws and precedents based on a collective right. Thus, arms are not arms if they are crew served and certain classes of arms are not allowed if you are not a member of the Guard in spite of the clear reading that the right shall not be infringed.

To work a case up to the country wide precedent level you need to win at the lower levels first. Often you create a court case intended to so carry up. Sometimes a group of activist lawyers is waiting for the ideal case to come along. Sometime no one really wants the old precedents broken as the limits set in the Jim Crow interpretation give power to the state which is often considered convenient. Like, nobody wants a right to keep and bear nukes, so nobody creates a test case to establish it.

At any rate, I have no desire to go out a create test cases.