Constitutional Law

CCW bans in churches

Many CCW permit systems forbid licensees to carry in certain locations -- bars, courthouses, etc.. A fair number of these have a prohibition on carry in churches. Jack Burton has some interesting thoughts on this, and principles of separation of church and state.

Basically: (1) what makes a church special in a way that, say a VFW hall is not? (2) The response has to be that a church is a holy nonprofit group's home, and the legislature judges that packing a gun in there would be an offense to the Almighty. Apart from being rather presumptuous (the Almighty may like guns, and who is a legislature to define his tastes?) doesn't that sound a bit like an entanglement of church and states?

Thanks to reader Rick Schwartz for the tip...

Full post as published by Of Arms and the Law on June 10, 2008 (boomark / email).