Court tosses NY case that could have expanded gun rights
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Source: Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court sidestepped a major decision on gun rights Monday in a dispute over New York City’s former ban on transporting guns.
The justices threw out a challenge from gun rights groups. It ruled that the city’s move to ease restrictions on taking licensed, locked and unloaded guns outside the city limits, coupled with a change in state law to prevent New York from reviving the ban, left the court with nothing to decide. The court asked a lower court to consider whether the city’s new rules still pose problems for gun owners.
The anti-climactic end to the Supreme Court case is a disappointment to gun rights advocates and relief to gun control groups who thought a conservative Supreme Court majority fortified by two appointees of President Donald Trump, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, might use the case to expand on landmark decisions from a decade ago that established a right to keep a gun at home for self-defense.
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Although the opinion was unsigned, the court was split, 6-3, over the outcome.
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By MARK SHERMAN
8 minutes ago
Read more: https://apnews.com/ba2f079bf2472771ee1a9311a55f4bd5
Related: 18-280 New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. City of New York (Supreme Court of the United States)
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