The Conservative majority court is expected to rule in the coming days or weeks in a pending dispute over New York state’s tight limits on the concealed carry of handguns.
Experts said that while it’s vague just how extensively the Supreme Court would rule, the limiting New York law is likely to be invalidated in a ruling that could have consequences on gun control efforts across the country.
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“It does seem relatively clear that the court is going to strike down New York’s law and make it harder for cities and states to restrict concealed carry of firearms,” said Adam Winkler, a professor at UCLA School of Law. “It remains to be seen exactly how broad the Supreme Court goes, but one thing is clear: as mass shootings become more of a political issue, the court is going to take options away from lawmakers on the basis of the Second Amendment.”
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The justices are expected to hand down a view as soon as next week but no later than late June or early July.
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As they consider the options, the U.S. is again engaged in a wrenching debate over the constitutional right to bear arms and Americans’ concerns over personal safety in a country with more than 390 million privately owned guns.
The discussion has ramped up following two recent disastrous shootings that devastated communities in New York and Texas.
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On May 14, an 18-year-old gunman armed with an AR-15-style assault rifle and clad in body armor entered a Buffalo supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood and killed 10 and injured three others; all but two of the victims were Black.
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Ten days later, an 18-year-old gunman armed with an AR-15-style assault rifle, high-capacity magazines, and a handgun carried out a massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, that killed 19 students and two teachers in the country’s deadliest school shooting in almost a decade.
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Democrats called for a revived push to pass gun control legislation after the slayings. But those efforts were unlikely to clear the 50-50 Senate, which would require support from at least 10 Republicans to overcome a filibuster.
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Republican lawmakers, including some top funding recipients from gun rights groups, have sought to divert attention away from firearms and put it to issues like mental health and limiting entrances at schools.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court in the pending New York case seems ready to pick up where it left off more than a decade ago.
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