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Gun Control Reform Activism

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Bolo Boffin

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Mon Apr 15, 2013, 08:42 AM Apr 2013

Breaking on Bloomberg News tweet: US Supreme Court upholds New York State gun control laws [View all]

https://twitter.com/BloombergNews/status/323791271074340865

I can't find any more details than this. I am looking!

ETA: Found this at Scotusblog.

http://www.scotusblog.com/2013/04/court-avoids-gun-rights-dispute/

The Supreme Court, following a pattern that is now quite well established, chose again on Monday to remain on the sidelines as the national debate over gun ownership heats up in the political realm. Without comment, the Justices denied review of the latest attempt to test whether the Second Amendment right to have a gun extends beyond the home.

The denial of review in Kachalsky, et al., v. Cacace, et al. (docket 12-845) was the latest in a series of denials of attempts to explore the reach of the Court’s 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, recognizing a Second Amendment right to have a gun for personal self-defense. That decision, though, was limited to a right to have a gun ready to shoot inside one’s own home.


So they upheld it by declining to take the case.

Here's Kachalsky at Scotusblog:

http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/kachalsky-v-cacace/

Issue: (1) Whether the Second Amendment secures a right to carry handguns for self-defense outside the home; and (2) whether state officials violate the Second Amendment by denying handgun carry licenses to responsible, law-abiding adults for lack of “proper cause” to bear arms for self-defense.


By not taking up this case, the Supreme Court has affirmed that state officials do not violate the Second Amendment by denying carry licenses for lack of proper cause. Good news for common sense today!
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