It appears the governor has the authority to decide between two different SoE declarations. One would satisfy Federal regulations without restricting citizen's rights to carry, the other would restrict citizen's right to carry.
She chose not to restrict the citizen's right to carry.
You are wrong... The method she chooses to use--166A--actually DOES invoke the weapons carry ban. It's just that most people in NC doen't have the reading comprehension, research abilities, or attention span to read the ENTIRE statute. It is clearly stated in the body of 166A that the weapons ban is invoked.
Either way institutes the weapons transport ban. Period...
Bev just chooses to instruct the State LEAs to selectively enforce this prohibition, fo rpolitically expedient reasons.
The Second Amendment Foundation currently has a lawsuit pending against the State to overturn this provision. Bev has been doing this unconstitutional and illegal selective enforcement of the criminal code because of this pending lawsuit. She is attempting to establish the grounds for dismissing this suit because if nobody is charged with violating the prohibition CLEARLY delineated by the statutes, then she can claim SAF has no "standing" because the law has not caused "injury".
It's a legal ploy to try and absolve her and the state government of responsibility for this blatantly unconstitutional law, and to prevent SAF from taking this case to trial, where they would almost certainly win. Such a win would be a HUGE blow to the anti-gun folks--because it would establish case law precedent that such "emergency carry bans" are not legal.
Many states took these laws off their books after the outrage of the gun confiscations during and after Katrina. But NC left our law on the books.
Bev doesn't care about 2A rights. She cares about maintaining the status quo. She cares about keeping guns out of the hands of minorities, the poor, and women. She cares about keeping the racist and classist gun laws of NC in effect because such laws keep two of the biggest voting blocks in NC happy--the Klan and the Anti's...
This law was originally passed to keep blacks and Native Americans from protecting themselves against Klan attacks. It is a disgustingly racist policy, and an embarrassment to the fine people of NC. It needs to be repealed.
The Right to Keep and Bear Arms is NOT contingent on race, color, creed, or economic class. It is a FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT, and applies to ALL of the People, all of the time.
Don't make excuses for this bad law, or for Bev's duplicitous political machinations. Support for this law, and for Bev's lies, is nothing short of outright racism and classism.