1、CRS Legal Sidebar Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Legal SidebarLegal Sidebari i Supreme Court Cert Grant Creates Uncertainty in Post-Heller World: Part I February 14, 2019 The Supreme Court recently granted certiorari in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. City of New
2、York, in which it will review a portion of New York Citys (“NYC” or “the City”) firearms licensing scheme that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (“Second Circuit”) upheld as valid. The grant sets the stage for the Supreme Court, potentially, to clarify the scope of the Second Amendmen
3、ts protection of an individual right to keep and bear arms, as established in the Courts 2008 ruling, District of Columbia v. Heller. Since Heller, the Supreme Court has substantively opined on the Second Amendment only one other time, in its 2010 opinion, McDonald v. City of Chicago, which held tha
4、t the Second Amendment applies to the states by way of the Fourteenth Amendment. How far the Supreme Court will go in clarifying the scope of the Second Amendment, and how it will impact current federal and state firearms laws and the body of lower court jurisprudence developed in the intervening ye
