US supreme court to hear biggest gun rights case in a decade

Case is a challenge to New York City’s limits on handgun owners transporting their firearms outside of the home, claiming they violate second amendment rights

The conservative-majority US supreme court has taken up its biggest gun rights case in nearly a decade, agreeing to hear a challenge backed by the influential National Rifle Association lobby group to New York City’s strict limits on handgun owners transporting their firearms outside of the home.

The nine justices will review a 2018 lower-court ruling upholding the city’s restrictions after three gun owners and the NRA’s New York state affiliate sued, claiming the regulations imposed in the largest American city violated the constitution’s second amendment right to “keep and bear arms”.

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