SCOTUS will hear its first 2A case since 2010

[MillCreek]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/us/politics/supreme-court-guns-nyc-license.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Everybody will be reading the tea leaves to see how the current Court feels about the subject.

[Perd Hapley]

The city’s ordinance allows residents with so-called premises licenses to take their guns to one of seven shooting ranges within the city limits. But the ordinance forbids them to transport their guns anywhere else, including second homes and shooting ranges outside the city, even when they are unloaded and locked in a container separate from ammunition.

A lot of these laws seemed to be motivated by a desire to make sure legal gun ownership or use is as burdensome, complicated, and hazardous as possible. I think someone once said something about drafting laws with the goal of making everyone a criminal...

[MillCreek]

The underlying facts and lower-court case will probably make for a pretty narrow ruling by SCOTUS.  I don't see this as the next Heller.

[MikeB]

I would still prefer one more hopefully originalist Justice before a new gun case. If it goes wrong trying to overturn it will be virtually impossible to correct. SCOTUS rarely reviews previous opinions.

[JN01]

The underlying facts and lower-court case will probably make for a pretty narrow ruling by SCOTUS.  I don't see this as the next Heller.

Maybe they will at least decide what level of scrutiny is proper for gun regulations.

[Pb]

Well, it is difficult to see how they could possibly screw this one up. 

Unfortunately, they choose a case that is pretty much totally inapplicable anywhere else in the entire country, and so will be meaningless to everyone else.

[230RN]

I would have preferred to wait, too, but that kind of smacks of vulture-ism.  

Maybe they'll come up with a definition of "infringed" which matches my definition.

Yes, fistful, I got what you were saying: "A lot of these laws seemed to be motivated by a desire to make sure legal gun ownership or use is as burdensome, complicated, and hazardous as possible."

I called them "choke points" for many years.

Terry