RJR descendant Noah Reynolds has filed suit against Forsyth County over the ordinance allowing citizens with concealed carry permits to pack heat in Tanglewood Park.
Here’s the interesting part:
Mikael Gross, a Raleigh attorney who filed the lawsuit on behalf of Reynolds and Isasi, said Forsyth County officials do not have the legislative authority to regulate concealed carry.
“There is a reason why there is a state law governing where you can and cannot carry guns,” he said.Gross said legislators don’t want to have 100 counties and several hundred cities with different regulations on concealed carry. Local governments’ only authority is in posting where concealed carry permit holders cannot bring their guns, he said.
Gross said that county commissioners did not have to take any action to comply with the new law.
The other problem with the ordinance, Gross said, is that it creates an underclass among lawful gun owners who don’t have a concealed carry permit.
“By allowing concealed carry permit (holders) to have access, you’re creating a different class of gun owner because they have a permit,” he said.
Not sure gun owners would classify themselves as an ‘underclass.’ Seems to me Reynolds and his attorneys are trying to cover all the legal bases here, which usually is an indication that one realizes they have a tough case to make.
