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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 5787964" data-attributes="member: 48469"><p>Unwarranted barriers to gun ownership have been linked to racism. </p><p></p><p>For example: </p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://firearmslaw.duke.edu/2023/03/race-history-and-north-carolinas-handgun-permit-law[/URL]</p><p></p><p>March 8, 2023</p><p></p><p>"Much of the debate over the permit-to-purchase law has centered on the legislative motivations for passing the law in 1919. Those who wish to see the law repealed <a href="https://www.grnc.org/defend-your-rights/press-releases" target="_blank">argue</a> <a href="https://bergerpress.medium.com/second-amendment-protections-approved-by-n-c-senate-67e58a1fa447" target="_blank">that</a> it was racially motivated, enacted to prevent Blacks in counties throughout North Carolina from obtaining handguns. A <a href="https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6824&context=nclr" target="_blank">note</a> published in the <em>North Carolina Law Review</em> in 2021 by then-student Nicholas Gallo is often cited as demonstrating that the permit law was motivated by racial animus. </p><p></p><p>Gallo traces the history of the Black Codes and New York’s Sullivan Act,<a href="https://firearmslaw.duke.edu/2023/03/race-history-and-north-carolinas-handgun-permit-law#_ftn1" target="_blank">[1]</a> and cites a Florida Supreme Court opinion stating that Florida’s similar 1893 permit law was motivated by a desire to disarm Black citizens. Yet the article does not contain any evidence specific to the actual law enacted <em>in North Carolina in 1919</em>. Gallo merely asserts that, “despite the North Carolina permit system appearing racially neutral on its face, when taken in context with the actions of surrounding states and the attitudes regarding minorities at the time of enforcement, the permit system’s intention was to keep minorities from possessing handguns.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 5787964, member: 48469"] Unwarranted barriers to gun ownership have been linked to racism. For example: [URL unfurl="true"]https://firearmslaw.duke.edu/2023/03/race-history-and-north-carolinas-handgun-permit-law[/URL] March 8, 2023 "Much of the debate over the permit-to-purchase law has centered on the legislative motivations for passing the law in 1919. Those who wish to see the law repealed [URL='https://www.grnc.org/defend-your-rights/press-releases']argue[/URL] [URL='https://bergerpress.medium.com/second-amendment-protections-approved-by-n-c-senate-67e58a1fa447']that[/URL] it was racially motivated, enacted to prevent Blacks in counties throughout North Carolina from obtaining handguns. A [URL='https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6824&context=nclr']note[/URL] published in the [I]North Carolina Law Review[/I] in 2021 by then-student Nicholas Gallo is often cited as demonstrating that the permit law was motivated by racial animus. Gallo traces the history of the Black Codes and New York’s Sullivan Act,[URL='https://firearmslaw.duke.edu/2023/03/race-history-and-north-carolinas-handgun-permit-law#_ftn1'][1][/URL] and cites a Florida Supreme Court opinion stating that Florida’s similar 1893 permit law was motivated by a desire to disarm Black citizens. Yet the article does not contain any evidence specific to the actual law enacted [I]in North Carolina in 1919[/I]. Gallo merely asserts that, “despite the North Carolina permit system appearing racially neutral on its face, when taken in context with the actions of surrounding states and the attitudes regarding minorities at the time of enforcement, the permit system’s intention was to keep minorities from possessing handguns.” [/QUOTE]
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