SCOTUS Hears Biggest Gun Control Case Since 2010

The New York Times reports:

The Supreme Court, which has not issued a major Second Amendment decision in more than a decade, will hear arguments on Wednesday on a New York law that imposes strict limits on carrying guns outside the home.

The question of how the Second Amendment applies to carrying guns in public is an open one. When the Supreme Court established an individual right to own guns in 2008 by a 5-to-4 vote in District of Columbia v. Heller, it addressed only the right to keep firearms in the home for self-defense.

The court’s only other Second Amendment case since then, McDonald v. Chicago in 2010, extended the Heller decision, which concerned federal gun laws, to state and local ones.

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Our friends at @NewYorkStateAG are defending its strong gun laws before the Supreme Court today. Massachusetts is with you all the way.https://t.co/KjPax28ETO

— Maura Healey (@MassAGO) November 3, 2021