The U.S. Supreme Court has granted certiorari to the case of the
New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc., et al. v. Corlett, et al., challenging New York’s ban on concealed carry of handguns without “proper cause.”
It is about time the Supreme Court affirms the right of not only New Yorkers but all Americans to carry arms outside the home.
Current New York law states that a concealed carry license to carry a handgun outside the house “without regard to employment or place of possession” may only be granted “when proper cause exists for issuance thereof.”
Essentially, this means that it is virtually impossible to be approved for a concealed carry license unless one is a police officer, a retired police officer, a military service member or a former military service member or unless one has fame and connections to the mayor.
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Christopher Wright Durocher | May 2, 2021, 8:02 PM EDT
Christopher Wright DurocherLast week, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that could gut many existing laws that impose limits on carrying handguns in public.[1]
In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Corlett, the court will decide whether New York state violated the petitioners Second Amendment rights when it denied their applications for concealed-carry licenses. While seemingly unrelated, a decision by the court that weakens gun regulations could mix with the court s existing precedents regarding police use of force to form a particularly lethal cocktail for police violence against Black people.
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Capping off a month that has already featured more than 40 mass shootings across the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a National Rifle Association-backed challenge to a New York state gun control law triggering new calls for Democrats to urgently expand the court.
Slate staff writer Mark Joseph Stern, who covers courts and the law, pointed out in a series of tweets Monday that this case is likely to pave the way to the Supreme Court declaring a constitutional right to concealed public carry, overriding many state and local restrictions on the ability to bear concealed arms in public.
April 30, 2021
On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal by two petitioners challenging New York’s denial of their applications for concealed-carry firearm licenses. The case,
New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Corlett, represents the first time in more than a decade that the high court will hear a Second Amendment case. Here’s your lawsplainer for the case and Second Amendment jurisprudence.
The Second Amendment provides: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” In 2008, in