How the Supreme Court could soon drastically expand the right to carry guns

Washington Post via MSN ^ | May 19, 2022 | Amber Phillips

[where's_the_Outrage?]

The conservative majority on the Supreme Court is potentially poised to take down one of the nation’s oldest and most restrictive gun-control laws this summer. New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen will be the court’s first major Second Amendment case in more than a decade and happens to be coming amid rising national gun violence and an uptick in gun sales in recent years. What the justices decide could unravel laws across the nation restricting who can carry guns in public.

Here’s what’s happening.

The case: Can New York place severe restrictions on who can carry a gun in public?

For 108 years, New York has said that anyone who wants to carry a gun in public must apply for a license, and he or she must be at least 21, have no criminal record, have “good moral character” and — this is the part really being challenged — a demonstrated need to carry the gun beyond average public safety fears. This is known as “proper cause.”

Two men from Upstate New York challenged the state’s law when they applied to carry a gun at all times but received allowances only for hunting or going to and from work. They sued, arguing the strict law violated their Second Amendment rights to “keep and bear arms.”.....

Gun violence there has doubled in recent years, from their historic lows in the years before the pandemic.

[Buttons12]

the Left closing mental hospitals increased violence and antisocial behavior. We don't need gun control. We need crazy control, institutions where the crazies can be confined

Amen to that. Try to get anyone confined for insanity these days, or a camel through the eye of a needle.

[Cobra64]

In. most states, it’s a CCW. Concealed Carry Weapon. 😁

[Hot Tabasco]

In. most states, it’s a CCW. Concealed Carry Weapon

And in other most states, it's a CPL.......So what's your point?

[Cobra64]

Acronyms are typically spelled out.

[saturn]

Every gun restriction is unconstitutional.

[GailA]

btt

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Can anyone explain to me why ANY gun law is constitutional?

“The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”

Is there some alternate definition of “not” I am not aware of?

And BTW, why are the democrats able to constantly hijack the arguments when it comes to this? “Mass shootings happen because of guns” Where are the Republicans saying “Mass shootings happen because people cannot defend themselves. 2nd amendment unconstitutional infringement in fact gets people killed” which is the damn truth.