Opinion
Today, the National Rifle Association filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a challenge to New York’s “Concealed Carry Improvement Act.”
In response to the NRA’s landmark victory in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen in 2022—which confirmed that the Second Amendment protects the right to bear arms in public—New York passed the so-called “Concealed Carry Improvement Act,” which severely restricts the right to carry firearms throughout the state.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld many of the CCIA’s restrictions in 2023. But…
…the Supreme Court vacated that opinion and sent the case back to the Second Circuit for reconsideration in light of the Supreme Court’s U.S. v. Rahimi decision in 2024. After reconsidering the case, the Second Circuit issued another decision upholding the CCIA’s restrictions.
Today, the NRA filed its second amicus brief in this case urging the Supreme Court to hear the case. The NRA’s brief highlights the split among the federal circuit courts over whether the understanding of the right to keep and bear arms in 1791 (when the Second Amendment was ratified) or 1868 (when the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified) controls. The brief then argues that the Supreme Court’s precedents clearly demonstrate that the original 1791 understanding controls, and that the Court should hear the case to resolve the dispute explicitly.
This case is named Antonyuk v. James. The NRA is also challenging the CCIA in a case named New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. James, currently before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York.
SCOTUS Must Step In: The Antonyuk Case & the Fight for 2nd Amendment Rights ~ VIDEO
About NRA-ILA:
Established in 1975, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) is the “lobbying” arm of the National Rifle Association of America. ILA is responsible for preserving the right of all law-abiding individuals in the legislative, political, and legal arenas, to purchase, possess, and use firearms for legitimate purposes as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Visit: www.nra.org
It’s bizarre that SCOTUS has to be “urged” to hear an issue on an item that is clear as “OJ is dead“. an item that is #2 in Bill of Rights. If SCOTUS won’t recognize the importance, then the Republic is doomed.
New Yorkers elect mentally unhinged lunatics so they deserve whatever happens to them . I have zero sympathy for residents of blue states because they continue vote for these tyrants .
How can the NRA do this when it’s sending it’s president to Germany for a members paid vacation… Wait I mean, to attend a conference and trade show?….
NY NY Cuomo wants to run for mayor that says it all baby Lets hope they remember the elderly that died on his watch in 2020. Crazy Kathy Hochul your her friend till your not. Muskets I will have them shooting muskets by 2025 .Undocumented Immigrants or criminals that now get a pay check from the taxpayers. While they also get a roof over there heads from the taxpayers. Health care new cars driver license’s EBT clothing and you can not arrest them or ask them any questions. Just violence.
why is it you never hear about one of these demons runover, stabbed ,,clubbed, burned or some other nasty death like happens to innocents they plague
Just look at her and listen and the dementia is obvious. She is so full of herself. So many that live in NY think the rest of America is like them, we are not, we are real America with the exception of blue states but there are some of us living there too, we are just smaller in numbers and that is why we are blue. Change the way governors are elected from a majority vote to a majority of county votes and all these problems will go away just like the demonrats. Response button is not working just like… Read more »