Did we get only two months and a week of the Second Amendment in New York State? On June 23, the Supreme Court overturned New York’s laws that required residents seeking a permit to carry a firearm outside of their homes to “demonstrate a special need for protection.”
It seemed intuitive for years that the Founders could not have meant that the Second Amendment allows individuals only to buy a firearm and then do nothing with it but wait for a home invasion between periodic visits to a shooting range, unless that person could demonstrate that they were, say, a jewelry-store owner who carried lots of cash between the store and a local bank. Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for the majority, confirmed over many pages that this intuition had a solid basis in history, tradition, and law.
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