Yesterday morning, the Supreme Court agreed to hear New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. New York City, which challenges the city’s ban on transferring even licensed, unloaded guns anywhere outside the city – including to weekend homes or shooting ranges.
Finally! In the decade since the Supreme Court ruled in D.C. v. Heller that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms, it has declined to take any cases regarding the scope of that right – until now. Matt Larosiere and I made the case a few weeks ago in the pages of the Wall Street Journal that the Court was neglecting its duty to say what the law is by abdicating its responsibility to resolve important controversies regarding various gun regulations. “The federal circuits can’t even agree on how to evaluate Second Amendment challenges, let alone what the result should be.”
Read more at https://www.cato.org/blog/supreme-court-finally-takes-second-amendment-case
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