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Interesting details about the first(?) post-McDonald suit brought in North Carolina

By Douglas A. Berman

This local story out of North Carolina provides some of the interesting details surrounding the first high-profile challenge to a state gun law in the wake of the McDonald Second Amendment ruling earlier this week: The same day the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that gun rights advocates saw as an open door to challenge the constitutionality of firearms restrictions, a lawsuit was filed in federal court in North Carolina seeking an injunction against the governor and others from declaring states of emergency that restrict who can carry guns in public. The suit was filed Monday by Second Amendment Foundation, Grass Roots North Carolina and three individuals against Gov. Bev Perdue, Reuben F. Young, secretary of the state Department of Crime Control and Public Safety, Stokes County and the City of King...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 30, 2010 (boomark / email).