Constitutional Law

Challenge to Geo. Mason Univ. exclusion of firearms

Pleadings here. Fellow blogger Rudy Digacinto challenges GMU's ban on open carry, as violating State pre-emption, the State constitution, and the 14th Amendment. And here is NRA's amicus.

I find it rather ironic that the policy is in place at George Mason University, of all places, given Mason's enormous role in creating the first State declaration of rights, in pushing for the Federal bill of rights, and in arguing in the Virginia ratifying convention that disarmament leads to tyranny.

Full post as published by Of Arms and the Law on May 12, 2010 (boomark / email).