Posted on 04/12/2022 5:03:24 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Hearing oral arguments in a major Second Amendment case on Wednesday, Supreme Court justices considered whether to dramatically loosen gun control restrictions across the county, spiraling into a debate over whether New Yorkers should be able to carry firearms on the subway.
The case is New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, and it is a lawsuit brought by a pro-gun ownership group on behalf of two men denied a concealed carry license by New York State. The Empire State has a 108-year-old handgun-licensing law that allows authorities to deny a gun license to an applicant to anyone deemed to be not “of good moral character” who “lacks a history of crime or mental illness,” or in any other situation in which “good cause exists for the denial of the license.” That rather ambiguous standard, known as “proper cause,” is the same or similar to the standard many other states use in their gun licensing laws.
The groups challenging New York’s law argue that the Second Amendment guarantees both the right to “keep” firearms at home and the right to “bear” (or carry) arms outside the home. Petitioners argue that the question of Constitutional protection of gun rights outside the home is “the single most important unresolved Second Amendment question after this Court’s landmark decisions in District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. City of Chicago.”
Justice Kagan asked how (plaintiff)’s suggestions would “cash out in the real world” in places like New York City subways or NYU’s campus, which is “open for anybody to walk around.”
(Excerpt) Read more at lawandcrime.com ...
During oral argument, supporters of gun control brought up the specter of guns on the subway to try and convince the justices to uphold NY's gun control laws.
Now, suddenly, we have a "mass shooting" on the NYC subway.
A shooting in an area where the security cameras did not work, where the suspect's Glock "jammed," where the suspect drops a credit card receipt and...lo and behold..where the suspect just happened to be a previous subject of FBI investigation and known to them.
This smells.
Quite probably an FBI agent set this in motion.
Like they tried to do at Garland.
Because it’s only legal for non-law-abiding citizens, silly.
How.d they come up with that? Kamala??
Most that have a concealed carry don’t so these things. Has there ever been a case where a mass shooter had a concealed carry license..
That’s true but that’s exactly why the timing of today’s shooting is so suspicious.
Is Frank’s father an FIB informant? Asking for a friend..
Yeah and saying all the security cameras were not working.. Not releasing the name even though the FBI was watching him in 2019..
“Has there ever been a case where a mass shooter had a concealed carry license?”
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Doubt it. Great question. Believe me, if such a case existed, we’d hear about THAT.
Why can't they?!
Because the left says no?
But it surely can be seen as allowing law abiding,sane adults to carry many different kinds of weapons in most situations.
Timing of Brooklyn shooting and the SCOTUS case calendar is odd,
One would hope so. But, Scalia and crew disagreed. Especially in schools, .gov buildings, and whatever 'sensitive' places .gov decreed.
Very odd
The other takeaway is that having law abiding concealed carrying passengers on the subway may have put an end to the carnage quickly. So this crime spree could be seen as a reason WHY gun licensing, (I’d rather have no license open/concealed carry, but that’s just me), in NY, and across the country, should have limited restrictions place on them.
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