Friends, for those of us who keep score on what happens in the Supreme Court, it has been a very interesting couple of weeks.
It seems that for those of us who are on the conservative side of the aisle, we have definitely come out ahead. It’s always good when the rights of American citizens are upheld in a just manner.
The big Supreme Court decision as far as folks that love the Second Amendment like you and I, is the Chevron decision.
Now, you might be wondering to yourself exactly what the Chevron decision has to do when it comes to gun owners in the United States.
It’s a good question. For those that don’t follow this stuff on a day to day basis on such a granular level as some of us, it would make sense that you’d be scratching your head going, “wait, Chevron…the gas company?”, and trying to figure out how it all pieces together.
The ruling mandates that courts no longer defer to agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes, insisting instead that such statutes be interpreted based on their clear and direct meaning. This change impacts how regulations are created and enforced across a wide array of sectors, including environmental regulations, health care, and, notably, gun control.
And by gun control, I mean the insanely ridiculous gun regulations that vary from state to state. If you look at the way regulations vary from state to state in terms of guns, the legal ownership of one gun in one state would be an imprisonable offense in another. If affects everything, from the purchasing of weapons and ammunition, down to where you can keep your guns.
Give you an example. If I own a Glock, and I decide to go on vacation for a month camping with my wife, I have to plan every single aspect of my travel around what states have more appropriate gun ownership regulations in terms of complying with the tenets of the Second Amendment.
If I fly, and I end up using a bag that I accidentally left a singular round of ammunition in, I can go to jail.
What this decision allows is for more uniformity and not up to individual agencies and states.
I don’t know about you all, but when it comes to something directly and clearly laid out in the Constitution, things need to be uniform in all fifty states across the board.
Hell, I have a good friend that purchased a gun in the state of Idaho while he was hunting there not too long ago and happens to live in the state of California. He purchased the firearm legally and has no criminal record. If he took the legally purchased hunting rifle back to California and got pulled over by the police he would be arrested for it.
The different state regulations need to be consolidated into one uniform federal code so that we don’t have to constantly figure out whether or not the house rules in one state or another on guns would suddenly make us criminals for merely exercising our Second Amendment rights.
The Chevron decision is going to make it a lot harder now for gun grabbers to impose new regulations against those of us that are just minding our own business and exercising our Second Amendment rights.
