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. Its the first time since 2010 the justices will grapple with the reach of the constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
Theres 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 havent gone through all this trouble just to then brush the case off, he said.
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Has RBG voted yet?
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.”
A bad ruling can lead to all sorts of bad consequences.
Her clerks have already written her opinion. And probably the next several hearings she sleeps through.
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Better pray for those conservatives to be clear in their thinking—especially Justice Roberts.
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 dont trust Roberts in the least.
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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.
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The only reason they took this case is because they can issue a very narrow ruling that applies nowhere else.
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.
For example??
Probably..
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