“More than a century of gun laws are potentially on the chopping block.” For nearly all its history, the Supreme Court kept its distance from gun policy. Now it’s about to decide a case that could radically reduce the government’s power to regulate guns. The Second Amendment states explicitly that it exists to protect “a well
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‘In New York State Rifle, however, the court could finally enforce the Second Amendment by invalidating New York’s pretextual licensing regime. The constitutional problems are clear. In New York City, where we practice, the licensing structure allocates total and unilateral discretion to the NYPD to decide whose firearm possession is lawful and whose is a
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“A Supreme Court case on New York’s carry laws could be a landmark” Thirteen years after the Supreme Court recognized the true meaning of the Second Amendment in D.C. v. Heller (2008), it’s still a “disfavored” right, as Justice Clarence Thomas once put it. Case in point: The question Wednesday at the Court is whether
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“The natural default under the Second Amendment in favor of gun owners is likely to be strengthened.” I hope so. There are few constitutional rights that have been debated so long in this country as gun rights On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will take up arguably the oldest and most controversial right in our history. New York
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