Today, the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Second and Fourteenth Amendments protect the right to carry firearms in public. Ultimately, the Court held that: “New York’s proper-cause requirement violates the Fourteenth Amendment in that it prevents law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their right to keep and bear arms.” The ruling specifically challenged the law in New York, but will also apply to the eight other states that still maintain “may-issue” gun permitting laws, including California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Rhode Island.

Read the full opinion and more analysis: https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2022/06/23/scotus-issues-landmark-second-amendment-opinion-in-nysrpa-v-bruen/

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37 thoughts on “SCOTUS Issues Landmark Gun Rights Opinion in NYRSPA v Bruen”
  1. I like to know how they can take anybody's right away to bear arms and keep arms when it's the second amendment it does not say if you get a felony you can't have a gun is the state that says you can't have a gun

  2. I'll take government seriously when they allow convicted felons that served their time, the right afforded them in the Constitution. If they can take a "felons" right to own arms to protect themselves, then they can take your rights to speech, due process, etc. for any reason or no reason.

  3. Will this lead to former felons being able to exercise their 2A Right? There is ample written and historical law on the matter (at one point, upon release from prison/jail included the reclamation of previously owned firearms. Even "traitors" of the Confederacy were permitted to retain 2A rights.) Former felons are regularly restricted in many ways, Constitutional rights seem not apply to them nearly at all. Just curious to others thoughts.

  4. We can walk our roads regather if are goals are all the same. We can run alone and free it we persue a deferent game. Let the truth of love be lighted, let the love of truth shine clear.
    Sensibly,armed with sense and liberty and the heart and mind united in a single,perfect
    Sphere

  5. There is no left or right wing in the constitution!
    This is what’s so wrong about our country!
    We have to find away to make people to look 👀 that we are one ☝️ on this planet,indivisible with the heart and united in a single,perfect sphere

  6. The constitution is the Law and ignorance of the law is no excuse, any cop, any prosecutor, any judge will tell you ignorance of the law is no excuse, why does that not apply to government authorities who should know better than we do what the Law is.

  7. LEFT WING GROUPS COMMIT INSURRECTIONS???!!! What universe are you living in???? And you call yourself a "Civil Rights Lawyer". Thank you for making your bias clear and that your "legal opinion" is crap.

  8. The literal script of the second amendment does not provide universal abilities to possess any arms!
    Nukes are ARMS and it cannot be reasonably argued that no limits as being tenable universally. Therefore, the limit must be set somewhere. While it is reasonable than many would challenge this decision, in the proper forum. It is up to Congress to create law. SCOTUS does not nullify what is codified into law. Congress' power provides for laws inconvenient for SCOTUS' dismemberment of the US Constitution and perversion of the rule of law!

  9. Yeah the musket argument is ridiculous. So first amendment doesn't cover texts on cell phone or emails sent by PC because they didn't exist when constitution was written. They can disagree respectfully, they still have to follow the law.

  10. "High Capacity" rifles were also available and in wide use by the citizenry include air rifles (the real deal, not the toys of today) which generally shot up to 10 rounds of .60 caliber ball ammo, as well as "gattling gun" type firearms, with 50-100 round magazines. Citizens routinely owned such things as cannons as well. The idea that muskets were the only thing available to citizens at the founding is patently absurd.

    Unfortunately, SCOTUS botched the NYSRPA decision: while asserting (correctly) that the 2ad is not a second class right, they allow permitting to continue, which converts this "right" into a mere privilege. This decision is clearly ne of cowards.

  11. At 8:06 you get really Fn stupid for 10 seconds, otherwise you seem on point.
    Trump is a traitor and everyone unlawfully on the Capitol grounds back on 6 Jan 2020 should be in prison for violating 18 U.S. Code § 1752. Those that attacked officers, damaged property, broke into the Capitol, ransacked the building, or delayed official proceedings can all be locked up in club fed for even longer sentences for that criminal conduct.

  12. Not only is their whole let’s go back to muskets argument flawed because they leave out warships cannon swivel guns etc but the big one believe it or not is a 200+ year old multi barrel machine gun that loosely resembles a Gatling Gun but it doesn’t rotate. These fools really should take a trip to a historical arms museum like the one Liege Belgium where one of those early black powder multi shot guns still exist. Basically it’s a whole bunch of octagon barrels soldered together and once the first round is ignited the charge is daisy chained into neighboring barrels and it repeats going all around the cluster of barrels and besides just barrels daisy chained together there’s multiple rounds in each barrel when the first round goes off the burning powder ignites the powder through special bullets loaded behind it. While this isn’t a machine gun like you think of with a trigger that you squeeze firing rounds until you let go of the trigger, this fires when you touch off the first barrel with a flintlock and it just fires all 270 something rounds until it’s empty or has a failure. These guns were purchased by the US Navy for their very first ships and were on some private ships as well but also capable of land use

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