New York Makes Second Amendment a Third-Class Right

The justices would be wise to take notice or there will be scant authority left in the Empire State — or others — to any of their rulings.

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Governor Wallace stands at the door at the University of Alabama, June 11, 1963. Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons

Not since Governor George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door has there been such a gesture of resistance to federal authority as we are seeing in New York, where the state just enacted a law eviscerating the Second Amendment rights that only days ago were vouchsafed by the Supreme Court. The justices would be wise to take notice or there will be scant deference left in the Empire State — or others — to any of the high court’s rulings.

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