New York Gun Control Law Allowed to Remain in Effect by Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed a New York gun control law to remain in effect while a legal challenge against it continues.

The law was enacted in the wake of the high court’s landmark ruling in June that dramatically expanded the right to bear arms outside the home.

The justices kept on hold a federal judge’s ruling that invalidated various provisions of the law. An appeals court had blocked the ruling pending further litigation. The decision suggests the justices will wait before they intervene as lower courts interpret their June ruling, which for the first time found that people have a right to bear arms outside their own homes under the Constitution’s Second Amendment.

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