New York City Still Trying to Avoid A SCOTUS Fight Over Gun Law

By Cam Edwards

According to anti-gun gun activists, every law they propose is just “common sense”, “reasonable” and all about “gun safety”, not gun control. This is true whether they’re talking about banning the most commonly sold rifle in the country, making it virtually impossible to get a concealed carry license, or banning magazines over ten rounds. In New York City, gun control advocates have spent years defending a city statute that forbids legal handgun owners in the city from transporting their firearm anywhere other than a few pre-approved ranges in the five boroughs. You can’t legally take your gun to your uncle’s in Utica, or to Connecticut for a shooting competition, which doesn’t seem reasonable (or Constitutional) to me.

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a challenge to this law in just a few months, and now all of a sudden gun control advocates are scrambling. The very same gun control advocates who’ve been defending the law are now desperately trying to avoid the Supreme Court ruling on the legality of the statute. A few weeks ago a hearing was held to make some changes to the law, and the state legislature quickly followed suit, all in an …Read the Rest

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