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USA Today
07-04-2025
- Politics
- USA Today
Supreme\u00a0Court\u00a0turns away challenge to New York state gun limits
Supreme Court turns away challenge to New York state gun limits Show Caption Hide Caption Law banning gun sales for adults under 21 unconstitutional: Appeals court US Appeals Court rules federal law banning gun sales to adults under 21 unconstitutional, citing Second Amendment rights. Straight Arrow News The U.S. Supreme Court turned away on Monday a challenge to New York firearms restrictions adopted shortly after the justices struck down the Democratic state's previous limits on carrying concealed handguns in a 2022 landmark ruling that expanded gun rights. The justices declined to hear an appeal by six New York residents who either have or are seeking a concealed-carry license of a lower court's decision that let the state enforce certain licensing requirements and restrictions in locations deemed "sensitive." The dispute centered on New York's Concealed Carry Improvement Act, a Democratic-backed measure adopted after the court's 2022 ruling that declared for the first time that the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms protects an individual's right to carry a handgun in public for self-defense. That ruling also announced a stringent test that required gun laws to be "consistent with the nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation" to comply with the Second Amendment. It was one of three key rulings by the Supreme Court since 2008 that have broadened gun rights in a nation deeply divided over how to address firearms violence, including frequent mass shootings. The United States has the world's highest gun ownership rate. New York's new law, passed in July 2022, defined a longstanding requirement for firearm license applicants to have "good moral character" as the judgment to use a firearm "in a manner that does not endanger oneself or others." The law also made it a crime to carry a firearm in various "sensitive" locations, including government buildings, schools, healthcare facilities, theaters, bars, polling places and Manhattan's Times Square. The six plaintiffs sued in federal court, challenging various aspects of the 2022 law. U.S. Judge Glenn Suddaby in Syracuse, New York, blocked much of the law in 2022. The Manhattan-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals largely reversed Suddaby's decision in 2024. The plaintiffs had asked the Supreme Court to take up the case to resolve an ongoing debate over whether courts, when searching for historical analogues for gun restrictions, should look solely at when the Second Amendment was ratified in 1791, or also 1868, when the 14th Amendment extended the Constitution's Bill of Rights – spanning its first 10 amendments – to the states. The plaintiffs urged the court to look only at historical sources in 1791 and not later. The 2nd Circuit's focus "on mid-to-late 19th-century sources was outcome-determinative in this case," they said, because "no historical tradition" exists to justify the state's law. The Supreme Court, despite dramatically expanding gun rights, has shown a willingness to allow some limits. The justices, on March 26, upheld a regulation targeting largely untraceable "ghost guns." In two rulings last year, they upheld a federal law that makes it a crime for people under domestic violence restraining orders to have guns but rejected a federal rule banning "bump stocks" - devices that enable semiautomatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns.
Yahoo
07-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
US Supreme Court turns away challenge to New York state gun limits
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court turned away on Monday a challenge to New York firearms restrictions adopted shortly after the justices in 2022 struck down the Democratic state's previous limits on carrying concealed handguns in a landmark ruling that expanded gun rights. The justices declined to hear an appeal by six New York residents who either have or are seeking a concealed-carry license of a lower court's decision that let the state enforce certain licensing requirements and restrictions in locations deemed "sensitive." The dispute centered on New York's Concealed Carry Improvement Act, a Democratic-backed measure adopted after the court's 2022 ruling that declared for the first time that the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms protects an individual's right to carry a handgun in public for self-defense. That ruling also announced a stringent test that required gun laws to be "consistent with the nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation" to comply with the Second Amendment. It was one of three key rulings by the Supreme Court since 2008 that have broadened gun rights in a nation deeply divided over how to address firearms violence including frequent mass shootings. The United States has the world's highest gun ownership rate. New York's new law, passed in July 2022, defined a longstanding requirement for firearm license applicants to have "good moral character" as the judgment to use a firearm "in a manner that does not endanger oneself or others." The law also made it a crime to carry a firearm in various "sensitive" locations, including government buildings, schools, healthcare facilities, theaters, bars, polling places and Manhattan's Times Square. The six plaintiffs sued in federal court challenging various aspects of the 2022 law. U.S. Judge Glenn Suddaby in Syracuse, New York, blocked much of the law in 2022. The Manhattan-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals largely reversed Suddaby's decision in 2024. The plaintiffs had asked the Supreme Court to take up the case to resolve an ongoing debate over whether courts, when searching for historical analogues for gun restrictions, should look solely at when the Second Amendment was ratified in 1791, or also 1868, when the 14th Amendment extended the Constitution's Bill of Rights - spanning its first 10 amendments - to the states. The plaintiffs urged the court to look only at historical sources in 1791 and not later. The 2nd Circuit's focus "on mid-to-late 19th-century sources was outcome-determinative in this case," they said, because "no historical tradition" exists to justify the state's law. The Supreme Court, despite dramatically expanding gun rights, has shown a willingness to allow some limits. The justices on March 26 upheld a regulation targeting largely untraceable "ghost guns." In two rulings last year, they upheld a federal law that makes it a crime for people under domestic violence restraining orders to have guns but rejected a federal rule banning "bump stocks" - devices that enable semiautomatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns.
Yahoo
30-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
'We love it here in America': US welcomes 21 new citizens at naturalization ceremony
PLATTSBURGH — For Justices Glenn Suddaby and Gary Favreau, nothing is more exciting than presiding over a naturalization ceremony. 'Most of the time, people are on at least one side of a conflict or case (and) somebody's going out of our courtrooms unhappy,' Suddaby, a member of SUNY Plattsburgh's Class of 1980 and U.S. district judge of the Northern District of New York, said at Friday's ceremony at his alma mater. 'I like to tell people there's only two occasions where I preside and I know people are happy: those are weddings and naturalization ceremonies. and the weddings, there's no guarantees, but the fact that you become a citizen of this country, I think, brings pleasure for the rest of your life.' Twenty-one people from 12 different countries got a taste of that feeling Friday when they were sworn in as United States citizens in front of their friends and family in SUNY Plattsburgh's Krinovitz Recital Hall. Mireille Satheu, originally from Cameroon in Africa, was one of them. She was beaming with joy after the ceremony was over. 'I just feel like I will have … more opportunity for the future,' Satheu said about coming to the United States. 'I came to America in November 2019. I've been here with my kids and husband, and we are just doing some few jobs for the moment, and I think that maybe in the future, I can have something much better. Right here is really good, really good. It is a big difference between my country and America, so I'm really happy.' 'So, so, so happy,' she said about becoming a citizen. 'I'm really happy to be here.' This gratitude about becoming a United States citizen is something everyone should reflect upon, Favreau, a SUNY Plattsburgh Class of 1973 graduate and U.S. magistrate judge for the Northern District of New York, said in his address. He said in his time presiding over immigration cases, one person expressed to him how lucky he was to live in this country. Similarly, at a previous naturalization ceremony, one new citizen was so overcome with happiness, he was sobbing uncontrollably when it came time to accept his certificate. 'Those of us that are born here may not fully appreciate that emotion, that feeling, that pride and that commitment to this country,' Favreau said. 'This ongoing process should be a reminder to all of us of what's important and what we need to stand for in this country.' As part of the ceremony, the a cappella group from Stafford Middle School performed the National Anthem, 'This Land is Your Land,' and 'America the Beautiful.' Amanda Ross, a nurse practitioner, was one of several people from Canada who became American citizens Friday. She said from the moment she, her husband and son came to the United States for work in 2015, she knew they never wanted to leave. They also had two more children while living here. Ross said they had been here on green cards and then work visas but as soon as they could, applied for citizenship. 'We knew that we weren't going anywhere,' she said. 'We love it here in America. We had no intention of going back to Canada, so we applied for citizenship, and here we are today. So life is good. It's exciting. It's like finally the journey has come to a close.' Ross said it's a relief to finally be a citizen. 'It's been about a year-long process from the start of the application for citizenship,' she said. 'So yeah, it's been a long year waiting. (To celebrate) we actually are going to go back to our hotel. We have my son here with his whole hockey team that came to support us. So we're all going to go have lunch and hang out and go swimming.' This was something Ross had in common with SUNY Plattsburgh President Alexander Enyedi. Enyedi said he, too, became an American citizen from Canada 20 years ago. 'Having been born in Canada, I know first hand what this day represents: the fulfillment of a long journey, the embrace of new opportunities and the profound commitment to the ideals and the responsibilities of American citizenship,' Enyedi said. 'So today, in front of witnesses, friends, family, loved ones, we come together to celebrate a moment of significance, one that honors both individual achievement and the shared values that bind us as a community, we want to recognize and celebrate that the individuals who are taking over citizenship today are marking a very meaningful step in their journey.'
