WASHINGTON, Nov 3 — The US Supreme Court returns to the divisive issue of gun rights today with arguments in a challenge to New York state’s limits on carrying concealed handguns in public — a case that could imperil certain firearms restrictions nationally. The justices are set to hear an...
WASHINGTON, Nov 3 — The US Supreme Court returns to the divisive issue of gun rights today with arguments in a challenge to New York state’s limits on carrying concealed handguns in public — a case that could imperil certain firearms restrictions nationally.by two gun owners and the New York affiliate of the National Rifle Association, an influential gun rights group closely aligned with Republicans, of a lower court ruling throwing out their challenge to the state’s law, enacted in 1913.
The court’s 6-3 conservative majority is considered sympathetic to an expansive view of Second Amendment rights. New York’s law requires a showing of “proper cause” for carrying concealed handguns. To carry such a weapon without restrictions, applicants must convince a state firearms licensing officer of an actual, rather than speculative, need for self-defence.Robert Nash and Brandon Koch unrestricted concealed-carry licenses triggered the legal fight. Nash and Koch, along with the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, sued in federal court.
New York has justified its law by arguing that analogous restrictions run from medieval England through the founding of the United States and ever since. The plaintiffs have argued that centuries-old restrictions were limited to dangerous and unusual weapons, not common arms for self-defence like handguns, and that many of America’s founders “carried firearms and supported the right to do so.”
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