Supreme Court could put New York’s ‘higher bar’ gun law in jeopardy

Even as New York City struggles to contain a bloody surge in shootings, here comes the U.S. Supreme Court agreeing to hear a challenge to New York’s responsibly strict gun laws, which make it hard to get a permit to carry a concealed firearm.

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April 29, 2021 - 8:55 AM

Even as New York City struggles to contain a bloody surge in shootings, here comes the U.S. Supreme Court agreeing to hear a challenge to New York’s responsibly strict gun laws, which make it hard to get a permit to carry a concealed firearm. If the high court’s emboldened conservative majority adopts the radical interpretation that the Second Amendment guarantees Americans’ ability to keep a loaded weapon on their person no matter what, it will be spitting in the face of the nation’s safest big city and every other place with life-saving gun-safety regulations.

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