Key takeaways:
- The Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge from firearms dealers in New York who sought to halt parts of the state’s new laws regulating commercial gun sales.
- The dealers argued that the new laws would hurt their businesses, but the Supreme Court declined to intervene.
- The lower court’s decision in favor of New York is currently being appealed by the firearms dealers, and it remains to be seen how the Supreme Court will ultimately rule on the matter.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to hear a challenge from a group of firearms dealers in New York who sought to halt parts of the state’s new laws regulating commercial gun sales. The dealers had requested an injunction to block the laws, some of which imposed gun safety requirements on retailers, while their appeal of a lower court’s decision in favor of New York proceeds.
The Supreme Court’s order comes days after it rejected a separate request from six New York gun owners to block the state’s new firearms law, the Concealed Carry Improvement Act, which was enacted in the wake of a major Second Amendment decision this summer. The law imposed new restrictions on carrying guns in public.
The dealers argued that the new laws would hurt their businesses, but the Supreme Court declined to intervene. The justices, with no public dissents, denied the emergency request for an injunction filed on behalf of the dealers who sought the Supreme Court’s intervention to “keep their doors open, while fighting to restore their civil rights through this lawsuit.”
The Supreme Court’s decision is the latest in a series of rulings that have upheld the state’s new gun laws. The lower court’s decision in favor of New York is currently being appealed by the firearms dealers, and it remains to be seen how the Supreme Court will ultimately rule on the matter.
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