Posted on 04/26/2021 10:32:07 AM PDT by thegagline
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will consider how much protection the Second Amendment provides for carrying a gun outside the home. The case will mark the first time in more than a decade that the court agreed to take up a central issue of the gun rights debate, something it has consistently ducked since issuing a landmark ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller in 2008 that the Second Amendment provides an individual right to keep a handgun at home for self defense. The court agreed to hear a challenge to a New York state law that allows residents to carry a concealed handgun only if they can demonstrate a special need beyond a general desire for self protection. The law "makes it virtually impossible for the ordinary law-abiding citizen" to get the necessary license, said Paul Clement, a lawyer representing the challengers. One of them, Robert Nash, said he was wanted to carry a gun in response to a string of robberies in his neighborhood. Another, Brendan Koch, also cited a desire to carry a gun for protection. Both men said they had completed gun safety courses, but both were turned down when they applied for permits. They joined a lawsuit challenging the law brought by the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association. New York bans carrying a handgun openly. The state law says anyone seeking a license to carry a concealed weapon must demonstrate "a special need for self protection distinguishable from that of the general community or of persons engaged in the same profession." The law is so restrictive, Clement said, that it cannot be reconciled with the Supreme Court's "affirmation of the individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation.”
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Democrats will be triggered and attempt to pack the Court.
Holding my breath.
These days the SCOTUS is about as reliable as an ex spouse
at the two year mark.
This is why we need more justices
Don't discriminate against the homeless, or those living in their cars/vans... The 2nd Amendment applies to US Citizens, period. It is not location sensitive.
How much? How much protection? I think the Second Amendment reads "Protection Shall Not Be Provided" or something. The Founders may have used some sort of fancy word like "infringed", but in today's language it just means you get bupkas.
SCOTUS is useless, we are screwed.
The current New York law allows for concealed carry outside the home. But only if you can demonstrate a “special need”. In other words, only if you know somebody important. A cleaning lady waiting for a bus at midnight, she doesn’t know anybody important. So no permit for her.
Hopefully the Supreme Court will stand up for folks like that cleaning lady.
“It’s a tax!” /Roberts
Yep. ACB just got a lucrative book deal for shutting down Trump’s lawsuits.
We need fewer traitors on the SCOTUS.
I'm shocked I tell ya, shocked!
She did?
I don’t think she should as long as she is a Supreme Court Justice.
If SCOTUS does not rule in our favor, will there be riots?? Are the pro gun Americans willing to protest?
Keep and bear = own AND carry
What’s hard or unclear about that?
Most folks deemed his picks to be pretty solid.
You NEVER know what you’re going to get for sure.
Getting seated on that court has changed plenty
of perspectives as to what judge’s views were
after the fact.
I don’t care what SCOTUS does. I’m keeping my guns, and I’ll carry at least 1 on my person everyday.
God bless Texas!
In any major city, the homicide rate has gone up by 50-150% in the past year. That's reason enough. Riots, reason enough.
Why lie? Most SCOTUS justices get book deals.
Clarence Thomas, Antonio Scalia, Neil Gorsuch and William Rehnquist all had book deals.
Any decision from SCOTUS is nil and void when it is clearly unconstitutional.
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