The law had restrictions on where and how a licensed gun owner could transport their weapon…
When the law was challenged ?
It was changed for OUTSIDE NYC….
Law makers made that change to deal with the court…
(NYC has very strict gun laws )
The Supreme Court on Monday sidestepped issuing a major ruling on a New York handgun law, a blow to 2nd Amendment advocates and the Trump administration, who had hoped the conservative majority would expand gun rights as early as this term.
The court’s action means that the Supreme Court has gone a decade without deciding a major 2nd Amendment case.
The case, which was argued in December, concerns a New York City law that regulates where licensed handgun owners can take a locked and unloaded handgun.
Monday’s order is a victory — for now — for supporters of gun regulations who feared the justices would take an idiosyncratic state law and use it as a vehicle to expand upon a landmark opinion by the late Justice Antonin Scalia from 2008 that held for the first time that an individual had a right to keep and bear arms at home for self-defense.
In an unsigned opinion, the court said that it sent the case back because after the justices agreed to hear the dispute, the New York law at issue was changed….