• The argument over gun rights has recently heated up as a result of high profile shootings.
• The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a New York law limiting gun-carrying restrictions.
• The National Rifle Association applauded the decision; officials in New York called it “outrageous”.

A New York legislation that limited people’s ability to carry guns has been overturned by the US Supreme Court.

According to the statute, persons who want a licence must demonstrate that they have “good reason” to carry a concealed firearm and that they are in danger.

The condition infringes on the right to bear guns, according to the 6-3 ruling.

Other states with stringent criteria for concealed carry permits may be impacted by the decision.

Americans have the right to carry “commonly used” firearms for self-defense, according to Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for the court’s six-justice conservative majority.

He said that unlike other Bill of Rights guarantees, the right to keep and bear arms guaranteed by the Second Amendment is not a “second class” fundamental right subject to further limits.

Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Stephen Breyer, all liberal justices, voiced their disagreement.

The Supreme Court’s ruling comes at a time when the argument over gun rights has recently heated up as a result of high profile shootings, like those that occurred last month at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, and a primary school in Uvalde, Texas.

The US Senate has announced moves toward new laws curbing access to firearms before the Supreme Court’s decision.

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The top US court’s opinion on Thursday, however, extended a string of decisions that have increased access to firearms by finding that the Second Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees the right to bear arms both at home and in public.

The court’s record on gun rights is further cemented by this ruling, which not only invalidates the New York legislation but also puts comparable laws in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Maryland in jeopardy.

Even in the wake of the mass shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo, the Supreme Court’s six-justice majority maintained the expansive reading of the Second Amendment that had been established by a smaller court majority in 2008.

Future Supreme Court judges will find it more challenging to reverse course and read the Constitution to allow for stricter gun control as these legal precedents mount.

Justice Breyer pointed out in his dissent that a sizable number of Americans had died as a result of gun violence this year.

“There have already been 277 documented mass shootings since the beginning of this year alone (2022) — an average of more than one per day,” he continued.

The court’s decisions are probably going to have an influence on six other US states with comparable statutes.

Officials in New York, including Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul, swiftly denounced the decision.

She called it “outrageous that the Supreme court has carelessly torn down a New York rule that limits who can carry concealed firearms at a moment of national reckoning on gun violence.”

On the other hand, the National Rifle Association applauded the decision.

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