This week the Supreme Court struck down a New York State law that placed limits on who can get a permit to carry a gun in public. The 6-3 ruling immediately raised questions about similar laws in other states, but in a broader sense, it may have opened the door to other gun rules around the country — which could also be challenged in court. …
A specific part of the majority opinion argued that gun restrictions had to be about more than public safety, they also had to be “consistent with this nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.” And one might argue that many state laws are not consistent with historical tradition because guns and the laws around them have changed a lot in the last 200-plus years. The New York law that the Court struck down had been on the books for more than a century. CONTINUED
Dante Chinni, NBC News
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