US Supreme Court set to wade into gun control debate for the first time in nearly a decade on Monday, hearing a dispute over an NYC gun restriction that could have major implications for gun rights nationwide.
Three residents challenged the provision, saying that they wanted to take their firearms outside the city to gun ranges, shooting competitions and second homes. They argued that the law violated their Second Amendment rights and said transporting an unloaded gun in a locked container did not pose any significant safety risk. Two lower courts rejected their claims and upheld the law.
After the Supreme Court agreed to take up the case, the city repealed the ordinance. The New York state legislature then passed a law prohibiting local governments in the state from enacting similar restrictions.New York urged the Supreme Court to dismiss the case, known as, explaining there was nothing left for the challengers to fight.
"Independently and together, the new statute and regulation give petitioners everything they have sought in this lawsuit," the city's lawyers told the court.New York's changes in the law"reflect the city's unwavering view that the ability to transport a licensed handgun is a matter of government-conferred privilege, rather than a constitutional right," wrote Paul Clement, a Washington lawyer representing the gun owners in a court filing.
New York now specifies that anyone taking a gun to a shooting range cannot make any stops along the way, including to a gas station or coffee shop. And the city forbids taking a gun to a vacation rental house, Clement said. In an unusually critical friend-of-court brief, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., said if the court agreed to hear the case, even after New York repealed the law, it would look like a partisan move."And the people know it. Perhaps particularly on the urgent issue of gun control, a nation desperately needs it to heal.
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