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   From: gp@dont-email.me   
      
   Iowa state representatives are debating House Joint Resolution   
   13, which would add the right to keep and bear arms to the state   
   constitution. Should the resolution’s wording be adopted as is,   
   it would require “strict scrutiny” as the judicial standard for   
   any restrictions on the firearms freedom of Iowans.   
      
   Louisiana, Missouri and Alabama are the three states that   
   already apply the strict scrutiny standard for gun restrictions.   
   The strict scrutiny standard means that when the matter goes   
   before a court on a constitutional challenge, the state is held   
   to the highest standards of justification for any limiting   
   actions. Even if the state comes up with a compelling reason for   
   a restrictive law, it has to structure the legislation as   
   narrowly as possible.   
      
   The anti-gunners, of course, will make their easily refutable   
   stand saying that a state constitutional amendment means anybody   
   and everybody will be able to get guns, or to quote a Barack   
   Obama claim, that it will be easier to get a gun than to buy a   
   book. But the fact is, the strict scrutiny standard still allows   
   for the public safety measures, such as a law that says violent   
   felons can’t buy or possess firearms.   
      
   For more on what the Iowa resolution means to firearms freedom   
   in that state, go online to the NRA’s Institute for Legislative   
   Action page.   
      
   https://www.americas1stfreedom.org/articles/2018/1/30/iowa-looks-   
   to-add-gun-amendment-to-state-constitution/   
       
      
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