Second Amendment Reaffirmed by Based United States Supreme Court

The United States Supreme Court has struck down a constitutionally restrictive law that prohibited New Yorkers from conceal carrying a pistol in public.

28 N. Y. S. 2d, at 257. P. 62. (c) The constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense is not “a second-class right, subject to an entirely different body of rules than the other Bill of Rights guarantees.” McDonald, 561 U. S., at 780 (plurality opinion). The exercise of other constitutional rights does not require individuals to demonstrate to government officers some special need. The Second Amendment right to carry arms in public for self- defense is no different. New York’s proper-cause requirement violates the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their right to keep and bear arms in public.