NY Gun Law Left Intact as Top Court Rejects Appeal
The Supreme Court Monday dealt a rebuff to gun-rights advocates including the National Rifle Association, leaving intact New York’s requirement that people wishing to carry a handgun in public show a special need for protection.
Refusing for now to be drawn into the fractious nationwide debate over firearms, the justices let stand a federal appeals court decision that said the century-old New York law didn’t infringe upon the Constitution’s Second Amendment. The court made no comment, turning away an appeal by five New York residents and a gun-rights group as part of a list of orders released in Washington.
High court review of the New York case would have threatened public-possession restrictions in as many as 10 states. Lower courts are divided on the measures, making it likely the Supreme Court will consider the issue at a later point.
The measure was challenged by five residents of New York’s Westchester County and the Second Amendment Foundation, a gun-rights group based in Bellevue, Wash. The National Rifle Association and 20 states backed the appeal.
This article appeared in print on page 4 of edition of Hamodia.
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