Gun owners may carry a weapon into stores, Supreme Court rules, rejecting a California law
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Set us as preferred WASHINGTON — Licensed gun owners have a right to carry a concealed firearm into stores and other private places unless the owner objects, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday.The 6-3 decision extends gun rights and strikes down laws in Hawaii, California, New York, New Jersey and Maryland.Those measures would prohibit carrying guns onto private property that is open to the public unless the owner has expressly authorized them.“This regime hobbles what the 2nd Amendment protects: the right of Americans to carry arms for self-defense as they go about their daily lives.
We hold that the law is unconstitutional,” Justice Samuel A.Alito Jr.
said for the court.The new laws, if upheld, would “impose severe restrictions on the daily activities of residents who have satisfied the state’s rigorous requirements for the issuance of a carry permit.
When these permit holders leave home in the morning, ...they may also be barred from entering many places that people routinely visit in the course of their daily routines, such as gas stations, convenience stores, restaurants, coffee shops, drug stores, grocery stores, ‘big box’ stores, home improvement stores, barber shops or hair salons, dry cleaners, and laundromats.” Politics California is one of five states that have tried to restrict guns in all public places.The three liberals dissented, saying the law infringes property rights.
Trump administration lawyers had joined a coalition of Hawaii gun owners in urging the court to strike down these blue state laws in the case of Wolford vs.Lopez.They said the laws, if enforced, would mean “a person carrying a handgun for self-defense commits a crime by entering a mall, a gas station, a convenience store, a supermarket, a restaurant or a coffee shop.”This litigation is part of much broader of debate over...