Shouldn’t have to provide a ‘good reason’, if that were true, it could be up to the government to determine what that was.
Via Free Beacon:
A federal judge struck down part of D.C.’s gun carry law as likely unconstitutional on Tuesday.
District Judge Richard Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, said the city’s requirement that applicants prove they have a “good reason” to carry a firearm beyond self-defense violates the Second Amendment as interpreted in the landmark Heller decision.
“In Heller, the Supreme Court unequivocally asserted that ‘the enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table,’” Leon wrote in the ruling. “The District’s understandable, but overly zealous, desire to restrict the right to carry in public a firearm for self-defense to the smallest possible number of law-abiding, responsible citizens is exactly the type of policy choice the justices had in mind.”
“Because the right to bear arms includes the right to carry firearms for self-defense both in and outside the home, I find that the District’s ‘good reason’ requirement likely places an unconstitutional burden on this right.”