• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I can speak to the 2A. My wife is a legal immigrant, not a citizen, so I checked around a good deal before getting her a pistol for Christmas.

    She is 100% in the clear to own, carry and defend herself. (This is Florida, YMMV on carry laws.)

    • Good for her and good on you for checking.

      Just pointing out that one can have statutory rights - provided by law - that aren’t outright in the Constitution. You are correct to add the “YMMV” caution - as in theory, it might be Florida’s laws rather than the 2A which give your wife the right to carry. Florida’s laws attempt to implement the 2A but in practice they might have opened the requirements wider than absolutely mandated by the 2A.