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Supreme Court considers challenge to state gun licensing laws in case from New York
WASHINGTON — A day after the Senate voted to begin debate on new gun control measures, the Supreme Court is expected to consider a new appeal aimed at loosening state restrictions on firearms.
The justices are meeting in private Friday to discuss adding new cases for the term that begins in the fall. Among them is an appeal of a federal court ruling that upheld New York’s strict licensing scheme for carrying concealed weapons in public.
The National Rifle Association and 20 states are backing an appeal by five New York residents who claim that the state law violates their constitutional gun rights. The challenge comes nearly five years after a landmark Supreme Court decision in favor of gun rights — and four months after a gunman killed 20 children and six adults in Newtown, Conn.
Legal scholars say the issue of whether people have a right to be armed in public is likely to win high court review at some point. The court’s 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller focused mainly on the right to defend one’s own home, but it left for another day how broadly the Second Amendment may protect gun rights in other settings.
The justices are meeting in private Friday to discuss adding new cases for the term that begins in the fall. Among them is an appeal of a federal court ruling that upheld New York’s strict licensing scheme for carrying concealed weapons in public.
The National Rifle Association and 20 states are backing an appeal by five New York residents who claim that the state law violates their constitutional gun rights. The challenge comes nearly five years after a landmark Supreme Court decision in favor of gun rights — and four months after a gunman killed 20 children and six adults in Newtown, Conn.
Legal scholars say the issue of whether people have a right to be armed in public is likely to win high court review at some point. The court’s 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller focused mainly on the right to defend one’s own home, but it left for another day how broadly the Second Amendment may protect gun rights in other settings.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/supreme-court-considers-challenge-to-state-gun-licensing-laws-in-case-from-new-york/2013/04/11/2094f490-a2e4-11e2-bd52-614156372695_print.html
