Conservative Brief by Martin Walsh
The U.S. Supreme Court issued its most significant pro-Second Amendment decision in nearly two decades a few months ago when justices ruled 6-3 that New Yorkâs concealed carry law was unconstitutionally restrictive.
The ruling, experts say, is significant because it means similarly restrictive concealed carry laws, limited primarily to blue states, are also likely to be successfully challenged.
âThis decision is a big deal,â MPR noted. âPreviously, the court had only said that the Constitution protected the ability to have a gun inside the home for self-defense. In that decision, which came down in 2008, the justices didnât rule on how guns carried outside the home could be regulated. It took almost 15 years for the justices to come back to that question, but now they have.â
The Second Amendment âprotect[s] an individualâs right to carry a handgun for self-defense outside the home,â wrote Justice Clarence Thomas in the majority opinion for Thursdayâs ruling. As such, FiveThirtyEight continued, statues like the one in New York, âwhich required people who wanted a license to carry a concealed handgun in public to show they have a good reason, are no longer allowed.â…
