A Defeat for the Second Amendment

Scotus dilutes its own stand on guns in New York.

AP/Yuki Iwamura
A 'Gun Free Zone' sign at Times Square. AP/Yuki Iwamura

Another day, another setback for the Second Amendment at the Supreme Court. The high court’s decision on Monday to uphold limits imposed by New York Democrats on the right to keep and bear arms in the Empire State follows a recent ruling backing federal regulations on “ghost guns.” New York’s restrictions are all the more galling for coming, as they do, after the court’s landmark vindication, in the Bruen case, of the Second Amendment.

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