President Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” dropped the tax on suppressors and short-barrelled rifles to $0 which is nice, but did not do much for New Yorkers.
Now we are getting some action. The DOJ has filed an amicus brief in support of the plaintiff in the 9th Circuit case Wolford v. Lopez.
USA Today explains:
“… Five Democrat-led, mostly densely populous states passed laws that prohibit bringing a handgun onto someone else’s property without that person’s express consent. Now the Trump administration wants the Supreme Court to declare that such rules in Hawaii, California, New York, Maryland and New Jersey violate the Constitution. “The United States has a substantial interest in the preservation of the right to keep and bear arms and in the proper interpretation of the Second Amendment,” Solicitor General John Sauer wrote in explaining why the Department of Justice wants the high court to weigh in …”
This seems to follow along with Trump’s 80/20 strategy of going after issues that broad support with little opposition. This part of Governor Hochul’s signature gun control law has gotten very little press coverage can would likely disappear with little fanfair.