The Department of Justice opened an investigation Tuesday into the Philadelphia Police Department’s firearm permit revocation practices.<\/p>\n
According to the DOJ, the investigation aims to determine whether the police department uses a vague “good cause” standard to cancel permits to carry legal firearms, which officials said is a violation of the Second Amendment.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have directed the\u00a0Civil Rights Division, through our\u00a0Second Amendment Section, to defend law-abiding citizens from local authorities who infringe the right to safely carry legal firearms,\u201d said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Rights Division. \u201cLaw-abiding Americans, regardless of where they live, should not have to worry that their city will revoke their means of self-defense.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to officials, in 2022, the Supreme Court held that permitting officials may not base licensing decisions merely on their personal discretion. <\/p>\n
“Here, it is alleged that Philadelphia Police use just such a discretionary standard to improperly limit Second Amendment rights,” the DOJ wrote in a release.<\/p>\n
NBC10 reached out to the Philadelphia Police Department for comment on this investigation. We are still waiting to hear back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Department of Justice opened an investigation Tuesday into the Philadelphia Police Department’s firearm permit revocation practices. According…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,2245],"class_list":["post-214859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}