Today the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc v. City of New York, New York. It's been over 10 years since SCOTUS has heard a gun rights case. Today's involves a gun organization challenging a New York City ordinance that limited transporting guns outside of city limits — one that has already been repealed.
So, the focus today was less on the Constitutionality of the ordinance itself, and more on whether the challenge even needed to be brought. The gun rights proponents wanted the case to go forward, insisting the now-defunct ordinance still restricted them in some ways, and the counsel for New York City said, basically, "This is ridiculous. The law doesn't even exist anymore." But the newly conservative-majority SCOTUS agreed to hear it, so here we are.
Pete Williams, Justice Reporter for MSNBC, summarized the proceedings.
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