Supreme Court Takes Up First Gun Case In 10 Years
BY Herschel Smith
3 years, 8 months ago
PJM.
On Monday, the Supreme Court decided to take up its first Second Amendment case in more than ten years.
The Court decided to take up the case New York State Rifle et. al. v. Corlett, focusing on the question of “Whether the State’s denial of petitioners’ applications for concealed-carry licenses for self-defense violated the Second Amendment.”
Robert Nash and Brandon Koch applied for licenses to carry firearms outside their homes in New York, SCOTUS blog reported. The licensing officer denied their requests after determining that, under New York law, they had “failed to show ‘proper cause’ to carry a firearm in public for the purpose of self-defense, because [they] did not demonstrate a special need for self-defense that distinguished them from the general public.”
This has a chance of doing good for folks in states like Illinois, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Hawaii.
If decided wrongly, this also has massive implications for the rest of America. Or if weak like the Heller decision, it has the chance to encode and enshrine state power, and to be a catalyst for heavy social unrest and massive noncompliance.
If they plan on a weak or wrongly decided opinion, I would have preferred they just not take up the case at all.
On April 26, 2021 at 12:09 pm, Carl "Bear" Bussjaeger said:
You’ll wish they hadn’t taken it up. The conniving b@st@rds are playing games.
http://zelmanpartisans.com/?p=49856
On April 26, 2021 at 1:16 pm, WiscoDave said:
@Bear
Of course I read your comment AFTER I send the link to Herschel…
On April 26, 2021 at 1:32 pm, Herschel Smith said:
That commentary agrees with one I read at Reason.com. Will post tonight.
On April 26, 2021 at 5:03 pm, Kick Ass said:
They take this up, but not an issue needing immediate attention, like election irregularities?
Fishy indeed.