NOW, SEE, I TALKED ABOUT THIS IN MY SECOND AMENDMENT PENUMBRAS PIECE, BUT IT’S STILL HAPPENING: Man protests felony gun arrest, had permit.
While police reports show that Preston’s Tennessee permit to carry a concealed weapon expired when he obtained a Delaware driver’s license in December, he contends he never knew that would or did happen. Nor did Tennessee officials ever inform him his permit had been canceled.
Preston also said he thought he was protected by a “reciprocity” law between the two states that recognize each other’s concealed handgun carry permits. He said he even checked Attorney General Beau Biden’s website to review Delaware’s policy on reciprocity and saw nothing that indicated his Tennessee permit was invalid if he got a Delaware license.
Two things: (1) Rely on a Biden at your peril, obviously: and (2) It’s a chilling effect on the exercise of a constitutional right for technical violations like this to be treated as felonies. That should be forbidden by, well, the Second Amendment’s penumbras.