SCOTUS to Hear NY Firearms Self-Defense Case; Decision Could Expand Gun Rights

By: Jared Evan

The Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal to expand gun rights in the United States in a New York case over the right to carry a firearm in public for self-defense.

In NYC in particular, it is next to impossible to be granted the right to carry a gun.

The case marks the court’s first foray into gun rights since Justice Amy Coney Barrett came on board in October, making a 6-3 conservative majority.

The justices said Monday that they will review a lower court ruling that upheld New York’s restrictive gun permit law. The court’s decision to take on the case comes amid congressional efforts to tighten gun laws. President Joe Biden also has announced several executive actions to combat what he called an “epidemic and an international embarrassment” of gun violence in America.

Vehement Anti- Second amendment gun grabber group “Everytown for Gun Safety” backed by former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, made their case for draconian anti- self-defense measures, “Gun violence has only worsened during the pandemic, and a ruling that opened the door to weakening our gun laws could make it even harder for cities and states to grapple with this public health crisis,” Eric Tirschwell, the legal director of the gun control group said.

New York is among eight states that limit who has the right to carry a weapon in public. The others are California, Delaware, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island, AP reported

In the rest of the country, gun owners have little trouble legally carrying their weapons when they go out.

Paul Clement, representing challengers to New York’s permit law, said the court should use the case to settle the issue once and for all. “Thus, the nation is split, with the Second Amendment alive and well in the vast middle of the nation, and those same rights disregarded near the coasts,” Clement wrote on behalf of the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association and two New York residents.

Governor Cuomo, tone deaf to the rapidly escalating violent crime in NYC, told the press, gun laws have made New York the “safest big state in the country” and that the “NRA-backed case is a massive threat to that security. Imagine someone carrying a gun through Times Square, onto the subway, or to a tailgate outside of a Bills game.”

A former NY resident, who recently moved to Utah, told TJV News “Many people in the city are on a suicide mission, they are against the right to carry, yet want to defund the police, it’s astonishing, I’m so glad I left NYC, this is an exciting case for patriots everywhere, especially in NY, where the patriots are seemingly outnumbered by woke types”