Blue-state gun restrictions face backlash as enforcement proves costly

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Gun restrictions in Democratic-led states are drawing backlash as the cost of enforcing them becomes apparent. Critics are pushing back against the measures based on the financial burden of implementation.

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⚖ The Constitutional Angle

Bruen held that when the Second Amendment's text covers a person's conduct, the government must justify its regulation by showing consistency with the Nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation. McDonald made that right binding on the states through the Fourteenth Amendment. Blue-state restrictions stand only if they match a genuine historical analogue.

New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Kevin P. Bruen, Superintendent of New York State Police 597 U.S. 1 (2022)

Vote: 6-3 · Opinion: Thomas

New York's requirement that applicants demonstrate 'proper cause' — a special need for self-protection distinguishable from the general community — to obtain an unrestricted public-carry license violates the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their Second Amendment…

McDonald v. City of Chicago, Illinois 561 U.S. 742 (2010)

Vote: 5-4 · Opinion: Alito

The Second Amendment right recognized in Heller is fully applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment. A four-Justice plurality incorporated the right via the Due Process Clause as fundamental to the Nation's scheme of ordered liberty and deeply rooted in its history and tradition; Justice Thomas supplied the fifth vote via…

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