{"id":14359,"date":"2017-04-09T12:51:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T16:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=14359"},"modified":"2017-04-09T12:51:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T16:51:41","slug":"gorsuch-to-decide-whether-to-take-gun-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=14359","title":{"rendered":"Gorsuch to decide whether to take gun cases"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re going to find out soon<\/a> if Justice Neil Gorsuch<\/a> is pro-gun or not as SCOTUS<\/a> has two petitions pending on gun cases:<\/p>\n

“… The most important is a petition from gun rights activists asking the court to find for the first time that the Second Amendment<\/a> right to keep a gun for self-defense extends to carrying firearms outside the home. In cases from California, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit<\/a> ruled that it did not. \u201cAny prohibition or restriction a state may choose to impose on concealed carry \u2014 including a requirement of \u2018good cause,\u2019 however defined \u2014 is necessarily allowed by the [Second] Amendment,\u201d it said. A strongly worded dissent said \u201cany fair reading\u201d of the Supreme Court\u2019s 2008 decision<\/a> finding a constitutional right to gun ownership for self-defense \u201ccompels the conclusion that the right to keep and bear arms extends beyond one\u2019s front door.\u201d A second case involves whether those convicted of certain crimes can be barred indefinitely from possessing firearms …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The California case is Peruta v. California<\/a><\/em> which is backed by the NRA & CRPA<\/a>.\u00a0 This is the one that could ultimately make New York shall-issue<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I believe the second case is United States v. Games-Perez<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n