US Supreme Court strikes down New York restriction on guns
2 years, 6 months ago

US Supreme Court strikes down New York restriction on guns

Al Jazeera  

The ruling says a law requiring a resident to show ‘proper cause’ to carry a concealed gun in public is unconstitutional. The United States Supreme Court has deemed unconstitutional a decades-old New York state law that requires gun owners to show “proper cause” to carry a concealed handgun for self-defence in public. It is outrageous that at a moment of national reckoning on gun violence, the Supreme Court has recklessly struck down a New York law that limits those who can carry concealed weapons. “It is outrageous that at a moment of national reckoning on gun violence, the Supreme Court has recklessly struck down a New York law that limits those who can carry concealed weapons,” she said. For her part, New York Attorney General Letitia James pledged to do everything in her power “to protect New Yorkers from gun violence and preserve our state’s common sense gun laws”.

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Trump-Appointed Judge Deals Major Blow To Gun Reform
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Trump-Appointed Judge Deals Major Blow To Gun Reform

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING A federal judge overturned an Illinois assault weapons ban Friday, contending that the law enacted in response to the 2022 mass shooting at a Highland Park parade violated the Second Amendment in its entirety. The 168-page ruling, by Donald Trump-appointee Stephen McGlynn, deals a sharp blow to reformers and marks the latest major court ruling to expand …

Appeals court says Colorado ban on gun sales to those under 21 can take effect
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Appeals court says Colorado ban on gun sales to those under 21 can take effect

Associated Press  

DENVER — A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that a Colorado law raising the age to purchase a gun from 18 to 21 can take effect while the legal battle over it continues. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals said that lawyers for one of the young men who challenged the law with a gun rights group, Rocky Mountain Gun …

Illinois law banning concealed carry on public transit is unconstitutional, judge rules
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Illinois law banning concealed carry on public transit is unconstitutional, judge rules

Associated Press  

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A federal judge has ruled that an Illinois law banning the concealed carry of firearms on public transit is unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Iain D. Johnston in Rockford ruled last Friday with four gun owners who filed a lawsuit in 2022 contending that their inability to carry weapons on buses and trains violated their Second Amendment right …

Minnesota’s ban on gun carry permits for young adults is unconstitutional, appeals court rules
5 months, 1 week ago

Minnesota’s ban on gun carry permits for young adults is unconstitutional, appeals court rules

Associated Press  

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota’s law that bans people ages 18 to 20 from getting permits to carry guns in public is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, affirming a lower court decision that concluded the Second Amendment guarantees the rights of young adults to bear arms for self-defense. And it established a new test for evaluating challenges to gun restrictions, …

Supreme Court sidesteps several new gun cases, including challenge to state assault weapons ban
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Supreme Court sidesteps several new gun cases, including challenge to state assault weapons ban

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court sidestepped a new set of Second Amendment fights Tuesday, declining to hear a challenge to an assault weapons ban in Illinois and sending other gun cases back to lower courts, including a challenge to the law used to convict Hunter Biden. The moves came after the justices upheld a gun law intended to protect victims …

Supreme Court turns down a 2nd Amendment challenge to state bans on assault weapons
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Supreme Court turns down a 2nd Amendment challenge to state bans on assault weapons

LA Times  

Three variations of the AR-15 assault rifle are displayed at the California Department of Justice in Sacramento. The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down a 2nd Amendment challenge to state laws in Illinois that prohibited the sale of rapid-fire assault weapons. “For now at least, the 2nd Amendment is a second-class right, and it will remain so until the Supreme …

Supreme Court Upholds Law That Keeps Guns Away From Domestic Abusers
6 months ago

Supreme Court Upholds Law That Keeps Guns Away From Domestic Abusers

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The federal government can continue to limit domestic abusers’ gun rights, according to a landmark ruling issued by the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday that helps clarify the conservative-majority court’s thinking on firearm restrictions. The case of United States v. Rahimi emerged as a high-profile test of how far the Supreme Court was willing to go in …

Supreme Court rejects gun rights for people accused of domestic violence
6 months ago

Supreme Court rejects gun rights for people accused of domestic violence

LA Times  

In an 8-1 decision, justices upheld federal and state laws that take away guns from those who are subject to domestic violence restraining orders. The Supreme Court put new limits on the 2nd Amendment on Friday, ruling that dangerous people who have threatened a domestic partner may be denied their right to have guns. “An individual found by a court …

Opinion: By keeping guns away from domestic abusers, the justices set an example for other courts
6 months ago

Opinion: By keeping guns away from domestic abusers, the justices set an example for other courts

LA Times  

The justices affirmed that the federal government and states can continue to restrain gun rights in some ways. The Supreme Court’s ruling on Friday finally brought common sense to analyzing gun rights under the 2nd Amendment. The court’s holding should be noncontroversial: A person can be prohibited from having a gun “once a court has found that represents a credible …

Governor wants New Mexico legislators to debate new approach to regulating assault-style weapons
1 year ago

Governor wants New Mexico legislators to debate new approach to regulating assault-style weapons

Associated Press  

SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico could become an early political testing ground for a proposal to make assault-style weapons less deadly. “I’ve got a set of lawmakers that are more likely than not to have a fair debate about guns, gun violence, weapons of war and keeping New Mexicans safe than members of Congress are,” said Lujan Grisham, a …

New York can enforce laws banning guns from ‘sensitive locations’ for now, U.S. appeals court rules
1 year ago

New York can enforce laws banning guns from ‘sensitive locations’ for now, U.S. appeals court rules

Associated Press  

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York can continue to enforce laws banning firearms in certain “sensitive” locations and require that handgun owners be of “good moral character,” a federal appeals court ruled Friday in its first broad review of a host of new gun rules passed in the state after a landmark Supreme Court ruling last year. Circuit Court of appeals …

Opinion: Supreme Court has a huge decision to make
1 year, 1 month ago

Opinion: Supreme Court has a huge decision to make

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Jill Filipovic is a journalist and author of the book “OK Boomer, Let’s Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind.” Follow her on Twitter. CNN — On Tuesday, the US Supreme Court heard arguments on a pivotal gun case over a federal law that bars people subject to certain domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms. Justice Clarence …

Appeals court rules against longstanding drug user gun ban cited in Hunter Biden case
1 year, 4 months ago

Appeals court rules against longstanding drug user gun ban cited in Hunter Biden case

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court has ruled that drug users shouldn’t automatically be banned from having guns, marking the latest sign of upheaval in the nation’s firearm legal landscape and raising questions about a law cited in the case against Hunter Biden. The appeals court cited the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision known as New York State Rifle & …

Key gun control measure in the crosshairs at US Supreme Court
1 year, 5 months ago

Key gun control measure in the crosshairs at US Supreme Court

Firstpost  

Rahimi challenged his conviction on the grounds that the law violated the Constitution’s Second Amendment “right to keep and bear arms,” and won. Biden’s administration has appealed The U.S. Supreme Court, which last year expanded gun rights in a landmark ruling, is set to return to the issue in a major case testing whether a law that keeps firearms away …

Court temporarily allows part of New Jersey’s handgun carry law to remain in effect
1 year, 6 months ago

Court temporarily allows part of New Jersey’s handgun carry law to remain in effect

Associated Press  

TRENTON, N.J. — A federal appeals court has temporarily agreed to keep part of New Jersey’s handgun carry law in effect as court proceedings play out. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday granted the state attorney general’s request to keep part of the law that bars people from carrying handguns in “sensitive places” in effect. It also denied …

Gun rights supporters sue Connecticut after governor signs bill with open carry ban
1 year, 6 months ago

Gun rights supporters sue Connecticut after governor signs bill with open carry ban

Associated Press  

HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont on Tuesday signed the most wide-ranging state gun control bill since a 2013 law passed in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, sparking an immediate lawsuit by gun rights supporters seeking to block a ban on open carrying and other parts of the new law. It’s the latest legal fight …

Federal judge blocks part of New Jersey’s handgun carry law
1 year, 7 months ago

Federal judge blocks part of New Jersey’s handgun carry law

Associated Press  

TRENTON, N.J. — A federal judge on Tuesday blocked part of New Jersey’s new handgun carry law that barred weapons from being carried in so-called sensitive places and halted a new insurance mandate the law sought to institute. “What the Second Amendment prohibits the States from doing, and what the State of New Jersey has done here is to ‘prevent …

Federal appeals court strikes down domestic violence gun law
1 year, 10 months ago

Federal appeals court strikes down domestic violence gun law

Associated Press  

A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the government can’t stop people who have domestic violence restraining orders against them from owning guns — the latest domino to fall after the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority set new standards for reviewing the nation’s gun laws. At first, a federal appeals court ruled against him, saying that it was more important …

Supreme Court lets New York enforce gun law during lawsuit
1 year, 11 months ago

Supreme Court lets New York enforce gun law during lawsuit

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — New York can for now continue to enforce a sweeping new law that bans guns from “sensitive places” including schools, playgrounds and Times Square, the Supreme Court said Wednesday, allowing the law to be in force while a lawsuit over it plays out. In a two-paragraph statement that accompanied the court’s order, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the …

US Supreme Court lets New York enforce gun law during lawsuit
1 year, 11 months ago

US Supreme Court lets New York enforce gun law during lawsuit

Firstpost  

New York lawmakers rewrote the state’s handgun laws over the summer after a June Supreme Court ruling invalidated New York’s old system for granting permits to carry handguns outside the home Washington: The Supreme Court is allowing New York to continue to enforce a sweeping new gun law banning guns from “sensitive places” such as schools and playgrounds for now …

Judge halts New Jersey’s stricter gun carry law, for now
1 year, 11 months ago

Judge halts New Jersey’s stricter gun carry law, for now

Associated Press  

TRENTON, N.J. — Suggesting that New Jersey’s recent concealed carry law infringes on the public’s Second Amendment rights, a federal judge on Monday put a temporary hold on the legislation drafted after the U.S. Supreme Court expanded gun rights last year. “As Plaintiffs lament, the challenged provisions force a person permitted to carry a firearm in New Jersey to navigate …

Appeals court grants stay in challenge to New York gun law
2 years, 1 month ago

Appeals court grants stay in challenge to New York gun law

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — A federal appeals court Tuesday issued a temporary stay on a lower court judge’s order that pared back enforcement of New York’s new gun law. Circuit Court of Appeals comes eight days after U.S. District Judge Glenn Suddaby declared multiple portions of the law unconstitutional, including rules that restrict carrying firearms in public parks and some licensing …

Judge again rules parts of New York gun law unconstitutional
2 years, 1 month ago

Judge again rules parts of New York gun law unconstitutional

Associated Press  

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A federal judge for a second time declared multiple portions of New York’s new gun law unconstitutional, including rules that restrict carrying firearms in public parks and places of worship. He also put a hold on the defendants enforcing some of the state’s new licensing rules, such as one requiring applicants to be of “good moral character,” …

New Jersey lawmakers rewrite gun carry law after ruling
2 years, 2 months ago

New Jersey lawmakers rewrite gun carry law after ruling

Associated Press  

TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey lawmakers unveiled new legislation Thursday to rewrite the state’s firearm carry laws after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June expanding gun rights. Scutari echoed that idea, saying the measure struck a balance that permits “constitutionally allowable gun carrying, but not just anywhere you want it to be.” The state’s National Rifle Association affiliate said …

Conservative New York sheriffs refuse to enforce gun rules in latest blow after Supreme Court concealed carry ruling
2 years, 2 months ago

Conservative New York sheriffs refuse to enforce gun rules in latest blow after Supreme Court concealed carry ruling

The Independent  

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Federal judge halts key parts of New York’s new gun law
2 years, 2 months ago

Federal judge halts key parts of New York’s new gun law

Associated Press  

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York’s latest attempt to restrict who can carry a handgun in public and where firearms can be brought was picked apart Thursday by a federal judge, who ruled that multiple provisions in a state law passed this year are unconstitutional. The state can’t ban people from carrying guns in New York City’s subway system or Times …

New York to restrict gun carrying after Supreme Court ruling
2 years, 3 months ago

New York to restrict gun carrying after Supreme Court ruling

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Amid the bright lights and electronic billboards of New York’s Times Square, city authorities are posting signs proclaiming the bustling crossroads a “Gun Free Zone.” The sprawling Manhattan tourist attraction is one of scores of “sensitive” places — including parks, churches and theaters — that will be off-limits for guns under a sweeping new state law going …

After Supreme Court ruling, it’s open season on US gun laws
2 years, 4 months ago

After Supreme Court ruling, it’s open season on US gun laws

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruling expanding gun rights threatens to upend firearms restrictions across the country as activists wage court battles over everything from bans on AR-15-style guns to age limits. “The gun rights movement has been given a weapon of mass destruction, and it will annihilate approximately 75% of the gun laws eventually,” said Evan Nappen, a New …

After Supreme Court ruling, it's open season on US gun laws
2 years, 4 months ago

After Supreme Court ruling, it's open season on US gun laws

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Supreme Court ruling expanding …

New York moves to ban concealed guns in many places, including Times Square
2 years, 5 months ago

New York moves to ban concealed guns in many places, including Times Square

India Today  

New York lawmakers voted to pass new gun laws on Friday that ban weapons from a long list of "sensitive places," including Times Square, and require people who want a gun license to get more training and submit their social media accounts to government review. "Our state will continue to keep New Yorkers safe from harm, even despite this setback …

Supreme Court says several gun cases deserve a new look
2 years, 5 months ago

Supreme Court says several gun cases deserve a new look

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Thursday that gun cases involving restrictions in Hawaii, California, New Jersey and Maryland deserve a new look following its major decision in a gun case last week. In light of last week’s ruling — which said that Americans have a right to carry a gun outside the home — lower courts should take another …

New York governor: State to limit where guns can be carried
2 years, 5 months ago

New York governor: State to limit where guns can be carried

Associated Press  

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York will ban people from carrying firearms into many places of business unless the owners put up a sign explicitly saying guns are welcome, Gov. “Otherwise the presumption will be in the state of New York that they are not.” “We’re going to protect the rights of private property owners allow them to not have to …

NY lawmakers to mull post-Supreme Court gun bills next week
2 years, 6 months ago

NY lawmakers to mull post-Supreme Court gun bills next week

Associated Press  

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said she is bringing state lawmakers back on Thursday to consider gun safety legislation in response to the Supreme Court striking down key portions of the state’s licensing law. The court on Thursday overturned the state law that required that people applying for a concealed carry permit demonstrate a specific need to …

Clarence Thomas’ Latest Guns Decision Is Ahistorical and Anti-Originalist
2 years, 6 months ago

Clarence Thomas’ Latest Guns Decision Is Ahistorical and Anti-Originalist

Slate  

In a 6–3 decision reflecting the sharp partisan divide on the nation’s highest court, the Supreme Court struck down New York’s century-old gun law against concealed carry on Thursday. Thomas and his fellow originalists have set out to analogize the Second Amendment to core free speech rights, a bizarre legal analogy with little foundation in either legal history or tradition. …

NEWS18 EXPLAINS: After US Supreme Court Says Americans Have Right To Carry Firearms, A Look At Its Impact
2 years, 6 months ago

NEWS18 EXPLAINS: After US Supreme Court Says Americans Have Right To Carry Firearms, A Look At Its Impact

News 18  

The Supreme Court issued its biggest gun rights ruling in more than a decade Thursday. In its decision, the Supreme Court struck down New York’s “proper cause” requirement, but other states’ laws are expected to face quick challenges. States can still require people to get a license to carry a gun, Kavanaugh wrote, and condition that license on “fingerprinting, a …

After Supreme Court gun decision, what’s next?
2 years, 6 months ago

After Supreme Court gun decision, what’s next?

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has issued its biggest gun rights ruling in more than a decade. In its decision, the Supreme Court struck down New York’s “proper cause” requirement, but other states’ laws are expected to face quick challenges. States can still require people to get a license to carry a gun, Kavanaugh wrote, and condition that license on …

States with strict gun-permitting laws consider next steps
2 years, 6 months ago

States with strict gun-permitting laws consider next steps

Associated Press  

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a New York state law that had restricted who could obtain a permit to carry a gun in public. A rundown of the similar laws in the other states, reaction to the Supreme Court ruling and what could happen next: CALIFORNIA The court’s ruling invalidated the “good cause” requirement in California’s permitting …

NY leaders vow new gun limits after Supreme Court ruling
2 years, 6 months ago

NY leaders vow new gun limits after Supreme Court ruling

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — New York’s Democratic leaders aim to preserve as many restrictions as possible on carrying a handgun in public after the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down key portions of the state’s gun-licensing law. State and New York City officials are zeroing in on specifying “sensitive locations” where concealed weapons could be forbidden, including a concept that …

US Supreme Court Expands Gun Rights, Overturns New York Handgun Law
2 years, 6 months ago

US Supreme Court Expands Gun Rights, Overturns New York Handgun Law

The Quint  

Americans have the right to carry firearms in public for self-defense, the United States Supreme Court said Thursday, 23 June. The Supreme Court also struck down a New York gun law, which will not only affect New York but also California, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Rhode Island. The law in New York required people to show a specific …

Live updates | American Medical Association weighs in
2 years, 6 months ago

Live updates | American Medical Association weighs in

Associated Press  

The Latest on the Supreme Court ruling on New York’s gun law: The American Medical Association has called the ruling a “harmful and deeply disturbing decision.’’ “Firearm violence is a public health crisis, and easier access to weapons and fewer restrictions on who can carry them — and where they can be carried — are dangerous steps in the wrong …

New York officials slam 'shocking' Supreme Court gun ruling
2 years, 6 months ago

New York officials slam 'shocking' Supreme Court gun ruling

Raw Story  

New York officials expressed shock and outrage Thursday at a Supreme Court ruling that strikes down a gun law, warning the move would undermine public safety. New York's governor Kathy Hochul said the decision marked a "dark day" while Big Apple mayor Eric Adams said it "may have opened an additional river feeding the sea of gun violence." Adams, who …

Supreme Court strikes New York gun law, expanding gun rights
2 years, 6 months ago

Supreme Court strikes New York gun law, expanding gun rights

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court said Thursday that Americans have a right to carry guns in public, a major expansion of gun rights. The justices’ 6-3 decision follows a series of recent mass shootings and is expected to ultimately allow more people to legally carry guns on the streets of the nation’s largest cities — including New York, Los Angeles and Boston …

SCOTUS decision in New York concealed carry law is a nightmare for gun control
2 years, 6 months ago

SCOTUS decision in New York concealed carry law is a nightmare for gun control

Slate  

The Supreme Court commenced a revolution in Second Amendment law on Thursday, striking down New York’s strict limits on concealed carry in a maximalist opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas that renders most of the nation’s gun control laws presumptively unconstitutional. The government may only save it from invalidation if it can prove that the regulation “is consistent with this nation’s …

'Devastating': Supreme Court blows massive hole in state gun control efforts
2 years, 6 months ago

'Devastating': Supreme Court blows massive hole in state gun control efforts

Raw Story  

In a decision with sweeping and grave implications for gun control laws across the country, the right-wing U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down New York state's restrictions on the concealed carry of firearms in public. Slate legal reporter Mark Joseph Stern warned that the high court's 6-3 decision—penned by Justice Clarence Thomas—"goes so, so far beyond concealed carry." The …

New York gun law: Supreme Court says Constitution protects right to carry a gun outside the home
2 years, 6 months ago

New York gun law: Supreme Court says Constitution protects right to carry a gun outside the home

CNN  

CNN — The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a New York gun law enacted more than a century ago that places restrictions on carrying a concealed handgun outside the home – an opinion marking the widest expansion of gun rights in a decade. “The majority’s expansion of what the Second Amendment protects will have monumental ramifications far beyond carrying …

What SCOTUS striking down New York's concealed-carry law means for gun laws
2 years, 6 months ago

What SCOTUS striking down New York's concealed-carry law means for gun laws

NPR  

What SCOTUS striking down New York's concealed-carry law means for gun laws LEILA FADEL, HOST: New York's governor, Kathy Hochul, reacted following the decision. It was only in 2008 that the Supreme Court said that the Second Amendment represents an individual right for gun ownership for self-defense. And what they said today - and this is why the opinion is …

New York officials react to the US Supreme Court ruling on handgun law
2 years, 6 months ago

New York officials react to the US Supreme Court ruling on handgun law

CNN  

New York CNN — New York leaders are condemning the US Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to knock down a century-old state law that placed restrictions on carrying a concealed gun outside the home, with Gov. “It is outrageous,” she said on Twitter, “that at a moment of national reckoning on gun violence, the Supreme Court has recklessly struck down a …

Second Amendment: What the Supreme Court’s new gun rights ruling means
2 years, 6 months ago

Second Amendment: What the Supreme Court’s new gun rights ruling means

CNN  

CNN — Justice Clarence Thomas opened the floodgates for all sorts of gun safety laws to be challenged in federal court. “Despite the popularity of this two-step approach, it is one step too many,” Thomas wrote Thursday, calling the second step inconsistent with the Supreme Court’s previous gun rights precedents. Courts are required to “assess whether modern firearms regulations are …

Editorial: California gun laws under threat by right-wing Supreme Court
2 years, 6 months ago

Editorial: California gun laws under threat by right-wing Supreme Court

LA Times  

Hundreds of people participate in a rally during the March for Our Lives against gun violence event in downtown Los Angeles on June 11. California’s long history of promoting public safety by embracing reasonable restrictions on guns is under threat by a Supreme Court thatput its ideology above common-sense efforts to reduce the risk of violence and death. Legislation being …

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