In a huge win for the Second Amendment, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 and struck down a New York law that “required people to show ‘proper cause’ to get a license to carry a concealed handgun outside the home’:
The Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN a New York gun-control law that required people to show "proper cause" to get a license to carry a concealed handgun outside the home. The vote is 6-3. https://t.co/jA2Gl7lTiG
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) June 23, 2022
The case was New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen:
🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court rules that New York's strict limits on the concealed carry of firearms in public violates the Second Amendment.
Huge 2A win.
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) June 23, 2022
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the majority opinion:
Well done by the Court.
This is also Justice Thomas’ most important majority opinion thus far in his entire Court tenure. https://t.co/UNG51FsIzY
— Josh Hammer (@josh_hammer) June 23, 2022
This IS a major ruling: “SCOTUS rejects the two-step approach almost all circuit courts have adopted post-Heller”:
https://twitter.com/gabrielmalor/status/1539980338755256320
And:
This is a HUGE shake-up of law.
After Heller, the circuit courts almost uniformly started upholding gun restrictions based on a two-step framework. Today SCOTUS says they almost uniformly got it wrong.
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) June 23, 2022
“Basically all of the post-Heller jurisprudence just got up-ended”:
This goes far beyond just New York's licensing law.
Basically all of the post-Heller jurisprudence just got up-ended.
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) June 23, 2022
When Dems fully digest what just happened, look out:
To sum up, today SCOTUS says there is just one test for whether a gun restriction is constitutional: whether the restriction would have historically been allowed.
At times the maj. op. phrases this as whether the restriction is an "American tradition."
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) June 23, 2022
From Justice Thomas: “New York’s proper-cause requirement violates the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms in public for self-defense.”
BOOM: "New York’s proper-cause requirement violates the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their Second Amendment right to keep and
bear arms in public for self-defense."— LB (@beyondreasdoubt) June 23, 2022
“BOOM,” indeed.
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