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The Supreme Court's Bruen ruling (With elimination of the two-step approach and now only "text and history" approach is used for 2A cases) has had a historic and very profound effect on numerous Second Amendment cases across the nation, up and down the circuit/district courts.Eliminating a subjective test from NY CCW license law did nothing
And the latest Supreme Court's action on 8/3/22 indicates effects of Bruen ruling is a gift that keeps on giving now that two-step approach is eliminated and courts must rule using "text and history" only - https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/100322zor_fcgj.pdf
Morin v Lyver - The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. The judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit for further consideration in light of [NYSRPA v Bruen]
And this 8/4/22 AP News article clearly addresses what is now "open season" on gun control laws across the country.
AP News: “After Supreme Court ruling, it’s open season on US gun laws” - https://apnews.com/article/gun-viol...ngs-politics-f919b74dc95062f322389349f35c0e93
So to me, the Supreme Court eliminating the two-step approach to now "text and history" approach for Second Amendment cases has definitely done more than "nothing".- The Supreme Court changed a test lower courts had used for evaluating challenges to gun laws (Eliminated the two-step approach) and now only weigh whether the law is “consistent with the Second Amendment’s text and historical understanding.”
- The Supreme Court ruling "threatens" gun control laws across the country on everything from bans on AR-15-style guns to age limits
- The Supreme Court ruling already led US District Court judge Raymond Moore (Obama nomination) to temporarily block a Colorado town from enforcing a ban on the sale and possession of certain semi-automatic weapons. He said he didn’t know of “historical precedent” for a law banning “a type of weapon that is commonly used by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes,” so while still early in the process, was a rosy sign for gun rights groups.
Encouraged by that decision, Taylor D. Rhodes, the executive director of the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, told The AP that his group was considering going after other gun measures in Colorado ... “The Bruen decision gave us a 4-ton wrecking ball.”
- The Supreme Court ruling could dramatically reshape gun laws in the US
- “The gun rights movement has been given a weapon of mass destruction, and it will annihilate approximately 75% of the gun laws eventually" - Evan Nappen, a New Jersey gun rights attorney
- The Supreme Court decision directly impacted concealed carry gun laws in several other states (CA, HI, MD, MA, NJ and RI) and they have been remanded back to lower courts for reconsideration in light of Bruen ruling
- In MA, police chiefs can no longer deny or impose restrictions on licenses just because the applicant doesn’t have a “good reason” to carry a gun.
- NY quickly passed a new concealed-weapon law, but Republicans there predict it will also end up being overturned.
- “Supreme Court has given an invitation for the gun lobby to file lawsuits against virtually every gun law in America" - Jonathan Lowy, chief counsel and vice president at Brady, the gun control group
- The Supreme Court has ordered lower courts to take another look at several other cases under the court’s new test (CA and NJ laws that limit magazine capacity and 2013 MD ban on “assault weapons”)
- Gun rights groups are also challenging similar bans in California, New York, New Jersey and Delaware.
- The Supreme Court ruling challenges restrictions on gun possession for aged 18-20 in TX/PA and challenges federal ban on gun possession for people convicted of nonviolent crimes as well as prohibition on concealed guns on subways in DC.
- Colorado was sued over 2013 ban on magazines that hold more than 15 rounds
- The Supreme Court ruling has public defenders in NY City asking judges to drop gun possession cases.