Posted on 06/23/2022 8:45:38 AM PDT by Morgana
The Supreme Court has struck down a New York law severely restricting licenses to carry a concealed weapon, in the high court's biggest Second Amendment ruling in a decade.
The 6-3 ruling on Thursday reversed a lower court's opinion, which had upheld the 108-year-old New York law restricting licenses to carry concealed weapons in public to those demonstrating a specific need or threat.
New York is not alone in severely limiting who can get a license to carry concealed in public, and the new ruling will likely make it easier to legally carry a gun in major cities including Los Angeles, Boston and Baltimore.
Justice Clarence Thomas delivered the majority opinion, writing that the New York law prevents law-abiding citizens from exercising their Second Amendment rights.
The court decision comes as the Senate was poised on Thursday for a vote to advance a bipartisan gun-control bill, in what could be the first new federal gun legislation in decades.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, reacted with fury to the court ruling, saying that it flew in the face of efforts to restrict gun rights following several high-profile mass shootings.
'It is outrageous that at a moment of national reckoning on gun violence, the Supreme Court has recklessly struck down a New York law that limits those who can carry concealed weapons,' Hochul wrote in a tweet.
'In response to this ruling, we are closely reviewing our options – including calling a special session of the legislature,' the governor added.
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Okay, ignored may not be totally correct but the laws and regulations still affectively prohibit residents and definitely visitors from bearing arms, openly or concealed.
“But what about the garbage pending in Congress? Seems like it needs to be sent back for a major rewrite.”
Rendered null in the face of judicial precedent. Love it!
Well... yeah. That's exactly what it does.
To do what? Enact another restrictive law just so that it can be swiped away?
The ruling just came down today. You can't really expect DC to go back in time to change their laws.
“..... Second Amendment’s plain text.....”
Sure she does. She is simply a communist being disingenuous.
The Founders were brilliand and succinct writers. The entire original US Consitution was written on 4 pages of parchment. Witness Obamacare’s 10,000 pages of text.
Only modern lawyers hate plain text because it requires us to use them as interpreters.
And street gangs/members laugh.
It’s a step in the right direction. But blue cities and states have ways of slow walking purchase and carry.
And just where the heck are New Yorkers going to do the middle “S” of SSS? New Jersey?
Today the Supreme Court leveled the playing field between a potential victim and a would-be perpetrator.
Hmmm, there's something similar about all of those places. I wonder what it could be...
Maine: 94.4% white
New Hampshire: 91.2% white
Vermont: 93.6% white
Switzerland: 95.2% white
The presence or absence of guns isn't the issue, but of course, we're not supposed to notice.
Maybe SCOTUS issued Bruen before Dobbs as a warning re: the psychotic Left taking matters into their own hands.
Given the complete lack of law and order since they don’t seem to imprison criminals any more, this is EXACTLY what the rotten apple needed.
Their “colleagues” stand mute and will say nothing.
That goes for any kind of self defense action.
I was hoping for this Decision from the SCOTUS. As heartening and reaffirming as it is... This fight isn’t over yet.
This was a major battle won, but the war rages on.
You're not wrong. Any DC residents here that can tell us what the process is for getting a handgun in the District of Criminals, now that they've been slapped down 3 times?
What took so long?
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