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.
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Not just the city - state. The police called looking for me when my NYS handgun permit expired in the early aughts and that I needed to come into the station and “surrender my weapon”. I told them I moved out of state, and they said to have a nice day.
2A is simple and clear. With all due respect,SCOTUS has ZERO say no matter what, nor does anyone else. Not to be dramatic,I will be very dramatic if the day comes where the left does make that push that they want.
Interesting,
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