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Supreme Court set to hear first major gun control case since 2010
The Washington Times ^ | Saturday, November 30, 2019 | Alex Swoyer and David Sherfinski

Posted on 11/30/2019 4:17:06 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

The Supreme Court on Monday is set to hear its first major Second Amendment case in nearly a decade, weighing a challenge against a regulation in New York City that prevented licensed firearm owners from taking their weapons in and out of the city.

The legal battle was brought by gun rights activists after a federal appeals court upheld a city ordinance that allowed licensed residents to take their firearms outside of their homes to only seven shooting ranges within the city, thus prohibiting them from transporting the weapons to a second home or a gun range outside city limits.

New York City, though, changed the regulation to allow licensed firearm owners to transport their handguns out of the city. Officials contend the change settles the lawsuit and want the court to dismiss the challenge as moot.

The case, however, gives the high court a shot at expanding gun rights. It’s the first time since 2010 the justices will grapple with the reach of the constitutional right to keep and bear arms.

“There’s reason to believe that … they want to take the case because there are enough conservative justices now on the court that they want to re-examine how the court defined gun rights back in 2008,” said Robert Spitzer, a professor at SUNY Cortland who has written extensively on the politics of gun control.

“To me, they haven’t gone through all this trouble just to then brush the case off,” he said.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; lawsuit; newyork; nra; nyc; scotus; secondamendment; trumpscotus
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1 posted on 11/30/2019 4:17:06 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Has RBG voted yet?


2 posted on 11/30/2019 4:33:33 PM PST by ptsal
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Wonder if anyone remembers that the Dred Scott vs Sanford decision states that...

“It would give to persons of the negro race, who are recognized as citizens in any one state of the Union, the right to enter every other state, whenever they pleased.... and it would give them full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might meet; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to KEEP AND CARRY ARMS wherever they went.”


3 posted on 11/30/2019 4:34:12 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

A bad ruling can lead to all sorts of bad consequences.


4 posted on 11/30/2019 4:45:02 PM PST by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: ptsal

Her clerks have already written her opinion. And probably the next several hearings she sleeps through.


5 posted on 11/30/2019 4:56:20 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Everyone who favors socialism plans on the government taking other people's money, not theirs.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; mylife; Joe Brower; MaxMax; Randy Larsen; waterhill; Envisioning; AZ .44 MAG; ...

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FReepmail me if you want to be added to or deleted from the list.

More 2nd Amendment related articles on FR's Bang List.

6 posted on 11/30/2019 5:06:35 PM PST by PROCON (Molon Labe)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Chose wisely.


7 posted on 11/30/2019 5:36:32 PM PST by hadaclueonce ( This time I am Deplorable)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Calling John Roberts. Calling John Roberts, the pinhead.


 

8 posted on 11/30/2019 5:39:46 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land,)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Zippy!

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9 posted on 11/30/2019 5:45:16 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Better pray for those conservatives to be clear in their thinking—especially Justice Roberts.


10 posted on 11/30/2019 5:47:36 PM PST by greeneyes
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

I was really hoping no 2a cases would be heard with this SC. We need another Justice. I thought it best to endure these incursions on the second and hope Trump gets another pick. I don’t trust Roberts in the least.


11 posted on 11/30/2019 5:47:51 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: PROCON

Thanks for the ping.


12 posted on 11/30/2019 5:48:12 PM PST by greeneyes
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The very fact that NY’ers need the city government’s permission to even own a firearm is the first attack on the Second Amendment. The fact that they now cannot tramsport them in and out of the city is another.

Time to fix all this socialist, anti-American bovine excrement.


13 posted on 11/30/2019 5:57:31 PM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. Mr Trump, we've got your six.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The reality is that neither State nor Federal Courts (Including SCOTUS) have the authority to infringe on our God Given Rights!

It is only because the people are so ignorant when it comes to the constitution that they (The courts) have been allowed to run roughshod over us!

BASICS OF THE 2ND
14 posted on 11/30/2019 5:59:42 PM PST by justme4now (Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it)
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15 posted on 11/30/2019 6:04:27 PM PST by bitt (You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. Harry Truman)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

The only reason they took this case is because they can issue a very narrow ruling that applies nowhere else.


16 posted on 11/30/2019 6:10:11 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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17 posted on 11/30/2019 6:42:03 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats only believe in democracy when they win the election.)
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To: Wilhelm Tell

In this case a bad ruling would include letting NYC bail by changing the law only because of risk the law would reach SCOTUS. Once dismissed, they would likely re-enact the law and again let it spend years winding the courts, repeat.

This kind of law must be stopped.


18 posted on 11/30/2019 6:50:54 PM PST by ctdonath2 (Specialization is for insects.)
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To: Wilhelm Tell
"A bad ruling can lead to all sorts of bad consequences."

For example??

19 posted on 11/30/2019 7:10:03 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Probably..


20 posted on 11/30/2019 7:15:51 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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