The Iowa House and Senate recently passed a state constitutional amendment that will now go before the voters in Iowa.

District 24 Senator Jesse Green says the 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms has passed the second consecutive general assembly. He points out there are only six states in the country, Iowa being one of them, that doesn’t have a state amendment reflective of the 2nd Amendment in the U.S. Constitution. Green notes that in the last 50 years the right to keep and bear arms has come under attack, and there were thoughts about judicial activism against those rights. 

Green talks about the state constitutional amendment including the phrase “under strict scrutiny.”

“What that means is that it holds it to a higher bar of, there’s no gray area in this fundamental right for Iowans. All Iowans have the right to bear arms and we need to protect that as good as we can under the law.”

Green says the amendment now goes to the voters to decide during the 2022 November general election.