The Supreme Court will hear a gun control case in December that could significantly limit the ability of state and local governments to regulate guns for public safety reasons.
The case involves a New York City regulation on transporting handguns that was repealed in July. Although that original rule is no longer in effect, for now the court has not determined the matter to be moot, so the case will move forward.
In this dispute and others, opposition to gun regulations is often grounded on the premise that once an individual interest is identified as a "fundamental" right, that interest prevails over all countervailing public concerns.
