FPC Challenges Texas Carry Bans

The Firearms Coverage Coalition (FPC) introduced Tuesday it has filed a brand new lawsuit difficult Texas legal guidelines that prohibit carrying firearms at sure public places, together with companies that primarily serve alcohol, racetracks and sporting occasions. The swimsuit, Ziegenfuss v. McCraw, seeks to finish what the plaintiffs argue are unconstitutional restrictions on law-abiding residents’ proper to hold firearms in public.

Filed in a Texas federal court docket, the lawsuit asserts that present restrictions on carrying firearms at these places are extreme and can’t be justified by historic precedent. The grievance argues that such areas “are usually not so-called ‘delicate locations’” underneath Second Modification interpretation, contending that restrictions in these places lack historic basis relationship again to the time of the Founding.

“FPC already struck down Texas’s ban on firearm carry for adults underneath the age of 21,” FPC President Brandon Combs said. “We now set our sights on ending enforcement of those locational bans so that each one peaceful adults might carry firearms in public locations with out concern of legal prosecution.”

Combs additionally highlighted the swimsuit as a part of FPC’s broader marketing campaign to problem carry restrictions throughout the USA.

The Ziegenfuss case provides to FPC’s strategic litigation efforts, with assist from the FPC Motion Basis and authorized illustration by Benbrook Legislation Group, P.C., and Cooper & Scully, P.C. The complete grievance may be considered on FPC’s web site at firearmspolicy.org/ziegenfuss.