NYC’s Anti-Gun Measures Abandoned After Supreme Court Threat

New York City abruptly backed off new gun restrictions after the threat of a Supreme Court fight became apparent. As The Daily Caller reports:

The Supreme Court should dismiss a challenge to New York City’s gun transportation ban because a new ordinance will moot the case, city lawyers told the justices Wednesday.

The ordinance and a newly enacted state law will give the plaintiffs who challenged the transportation ban everything they have sought in court, making dismissal the appropriate course, city lawyers wrote in a letter to the high court.

“The new city regulation gives petitioners everything they have sought in this lawsuit,” assistant corporation counsel Richard Dearing wrote. “The new state law, upon signature by the governor, will make the case doubly moot.”

If the case is not dismissed, the city will continue arguing the dispute is moot in a legal brief due Aug. 5. They will not address the merits of the controversy, Dearing wrote.

New York City has long been known for its absurdly anti-2nd amendment legislation. It appears this time they may have finally gone too far, however.

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