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Judges on the US Supreme Court have struck down a New York law that restricts carrying concealed firearms outside the home.
The 6-3 ruling, in line with the court’s conservative majority, found the 1913 law violated a person’s right to keep and bear arms under the US Constitution.
Justice Clarence Thomas declared the Constitution protected ‘an individual’s right to carry a handgun for self-defence outside the home’.
But liberal Justice Stephen Breyer wrote the court had expanded gun rights without wrestling with the ‘nature or severity’ of firearms violence in a country where there were more guns per person than any other nation.
New York governor Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, called the ruling ‘absolutely shocking’ and said she was ‘sorry this dark day has come’.
The justices overturned a lower court ruling that threw out a challenge to the law by two gun owners and the New York affiliate of the National Rifle Association.
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Their decision, which affects at least six states, comes after 19 children and two teachers were at a primary school in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24 and 10 people were slain at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, on May 14.
President Joe Biden has advocated for new gun restrictions and has called firearms violence a ‘national embarrassment’.
Senators were yesterday poised for a vote to advance a bipartisan gun control bill that supporters hope will help curb mass shootings.
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