As US President Joe Biden and the US Congress weigh how to respond to the latest mass murders in the United States, the Supreme Court must decide an important case that could undermine new efforts to pass gun control measures and make existing ones vulnerable to legal risks. action.
Judges are scheduled to rule by the end of this month against the state’s restrictions on gun possession in public, the two firearm owners and the New York branch of the National Rifle Association, an influential gun rights group with close ties to Republicans. in an invisible way.
Oral arguments in last November’s case showed that the court’s conservative 6-3 majority was ready to overturn New York’s restrictions. Such a decision could lay the groundwork for lifting other state-level weapon restrictions, including the banning of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
The ruling in the New York case may shed light on how judges are assessing whether firearm restrictions violate the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment right to own and bear arms—a potential new test of gun regulation dating back centuries.
Royce Barondes, a professor who teaches firearms law at the University of Missouri School of Law, said this focus “will cause courts to override restrictions that lower courts have so far approved.”
source: Noticias
