Published September 21, 2026 at 11:00 AM ET · Updated September 21, 2026 at 12:40 PM ET
Supreme Court asked to hear concealed carry reciprocity case
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The Supreme Court has been asked to hear a case involving concealed carry reciprocity. A petition seeks review of the issue of reciprocal recognition of concealed carry permits. The Truth About Guns reported on the request.
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⚖ The Constitutional Angle
Bruen held the Second Amendment protects carrying handguns publicly for self-defense, and regulation of covered conduct must be justified by the Nation's historical tradition of firearm control. McDonald made that right binding on the states. So a state refusing to honor another state's permit must defend the refusal historically, and whether that defense succeeds remains unsettled.
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 right to keep and bear arms in public. The Court held the Second Amendment protects a right to carry handguns publicly for self-defense, and rejected the two-step means-end framework lower courts had applied after Heller.
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 the Privileges or Immunities Clause. The Seventh Circuit's judgment upholding Chicago's and Oak Park's handgun bans was reversed and remanded.
Precedent facts from the PW Law Library — primary-source verified & independently audited
