Concealed Carry & Strict Scrutiny

This article covers a recent decision that has run like wildfire through the Internet and which you need to understand. It is a circuit court judge's decision from Wisconsin, State v. Schultz (2010). You need to understand it so that you do not get unrealistically high expectations for what it means. I do not expect it to survive appeal--but even this is an amazing sign of how rapidly the Second Amendment has gone from the embarrassing crazy aunt in the basement to a co-equal part of the Bill of Rights. The details of how Joshua D. Schulz came to the attention of the police are not disclosed in the decision, and my attempts to find out those details from other sources have not been successful. The bare facts of the decision tell us that he was arrested for carrying a concealed knife under his shirt, and charged under Wisconsin's complete ban on concealed carry. (1) (Wisconsin, along with Illinois, is one of two remaining states that still completely prohibit concealed carry--with not even a discretionary permit issuance system.)