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In the 2022 ruling in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, the court said the government must show a law is consistent with the nation's historical tradition of firearms regulation and can justify a restriction by identifying historical analogues. The case to be he...
*NOTE: On June 23rd, 2022 The US Supreme Court issued a decision on the case New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc., v. Bruen, Superintendent of New York State Police. The US Supreme Court held that NY's law requiring that people show "good cause" to justify applying for a...
Elected officials in New York vowed to protect public safety and the local legislature passed the bill on Friday in an extraordinary session to soften the blow of the Supreme Court ruling in the case of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. The law will take effect on Sept. ...
In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a New York state licensing system that made it difficult to get concealed carry permits. In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, the Court set forth a new historical test for determining if state regulations placed an undue burden...
“This bill is the culmination of a multi-year process that began after the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority issued their disastrous [New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v.]Bruendecision, which weakened the Commonwealth’s gun safety laws and endangered our residents,” Mar...
Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, who represents the government before the Supreme Court, urged the justices to correct what she said was the "profound misreading" of their June 2022 decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, which has had "destabilizing consequences...
strip New Yorkers of their right to keep and bear arms in a sweeping and unprecedented way." The state's gun law, they argued, violates the Second Amendment and stands in defiance of the Supreme Court's central holding in its June decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v....
Washington State is not the first to enact such laws; it is the latest and perhaps the worst. HB 1240 has taken the laws in California and New York to new levels. Even though the Supreme Court struck down similar gun control measures inNYSRPA v. Bruen, Illinois and Washington have complet...
New York lawmakers passed that bill after the Supreme Court struck down the state's prior concealed carry law in June 2022 in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in that opinion for the court that "the Second and Fourteenth Amendments...