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Supreme Court will review gun restrictions for first time in nearly a decade (New York)
WaPo ^ | 01-22-2019 | Robert Barnes

Posted on 01/22/2019 8:04:22 AM PST by NRx

The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will examine New York City’s ban on carrying a licensed and unloaded handgun outside the city limits, the first Second Amendment challenge it has accepted in nearly a decade.

The decision to hear the case in the term that begins in October may signal that the reinforced conservative majority on the court is ready to consider more laws that restrict gun rights.

New York’s law is not replicated elsewhere: It permits transporting handguns only to firing ranges within the city. Those who challenged the law have a licenses to keep a handgun at their homes. Petitioners included those who want to take their guns to firing ranges or competitions outside the city, and one who wanted to take the gun to his second home upstate.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit ruled for the city. It said petitioners had not shown there was inadequate access to one of the seven firing ranges in the city, that petitioners could not rent a firearm if they wanted to go to a range elsewhere, or that the upstate homeowner could not get a permit to keep a second handgun there.

The National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups supported the lawsuit, and said it was time for the court to clarify what the right to keep a firearm for personal protection means.

“The City does not even attempt to argue that what petitioners seek — the modest ability to transport their licensed firearms, unloaded and locked away separate from ammunition, to a shooting range or second home outside city limits — poses any threat to public safety,” the challengers’ brief said.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; 2ndcircuit; banglist; guns; newyork; newyorkcity; nra; scotus; scotusguns; secondamendment
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To: Vaquero

RBG can’t resign, it’s too late, she’s dead.


21 posted on 01/22/2019 9:12:13 AM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: NRx
I hate articles like this that never mention the case name.
22 posted on 01/22/2019 9:16:13 AM PST by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
NY is some kind of cray cray!

Of course they are. Who in their right mind would send this as their representative in Congress?


23 posted on 01/22/2019 9:17:46 AM PST by TADSLOS (If you suck at playing the trumpet, thatÂ’s probably why.)
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To: TADSLOS

Crazed and Glazed.


24 posted on 01/22/2019 9:20:50 AM PST by jetson
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To: Balding_Eagle
RBG can’t resign, it’s too late, she’s dead.

She's not dead yet. She's just resting.

25 posted on 01/22/2019 9:21:01 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: NRx

The left hates guns but loves killing babies. What’s the difference between killing a baby with a gun or “medical instrument?” Gun control and baby control are the foundation of the left’s hold onto power.


26 posted on 01/22/2019 9:25:53 AM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Balding_Eagle

Yeah. That’s the rumor that I’ve heard.


27 posted on 01/22/2019 9:27:37 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you .)
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To: Vaquero
She gonna phone it in??

Maybe!

28 posted on 01/22/2019 9:28:40 AM PST by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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To: TADSLOS

Hispanics in the South Bronx who never bettered themselves and moved. “Gimme for free”


29 posted on 01/22/2019 9:31:32 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you .)
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To: PROCON; All

“...poses any threat to public safety...”

“An armed Society is a polite Society.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein


30 posted on 01/22/2019 9:57:43 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin ( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
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To: Lazamataz

*Fingers Crossed* :)


31 posted on 01/22/2019 9:58:17 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin ( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
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To: Pollster1; Balding_Eagle

She’s pinin’ for the Fjords! ;)


32 posted on 01/22/2019 9:59:56 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin ( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
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To: TADSLOS

She looks like a Heaven’s Gate member in that pic. Very creepy.


33 posted on 01/22/2019 10:03:42 AM PST by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
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To: zeugma
From the article...

"The case is New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. City of New York".

34 posted on 01/22/2019 10:10:31 AM PST by skimbell
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To: NRx

Setting the entire issue aside for a moment....

How can the City legislate against ANYTHING going on outside the City?


35 posted on 01/22/2019 10:11:40 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue
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To: NRx

I hope that they finally get around to defining the term “Shall Not Be Infringed”.


36 posted on 01/22/2019 10:19:49 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Magnum44
From another article at Breitbart...

"Oral arguments should be held in late April, with a decision by the end of June

37 posted on 01/22/2019 10:20:16 AM PST by skimbell
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To: NRx
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit ruled for the city.

Bizarre

38 posted on 01/22/2019 10:21:15 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: NRx

With Roberts in there then the results of this may not be good.


39 posted on 01/22/2019 10:22:58 AM PST by Revel
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To: NRx

I hate living here.


40 posted on 01/22/2019 10:35:12 AM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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