New York eased gun law hopeful Supreme Court would drop Second Amendment case — but that hasn’t happened yet
As the nation renews debate over gun control, the Supreme Court must decide whether to press ahead with a Second Amendment case it has accepted for the coming term, its first in a decade.
Gun-control groups operate under a no-news-is-good-news approach to the Supreme Court, leery of giving what they view as a strengthened conservative majority the chance to expand gun rights and weaken restrictive laws.
In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. City of New York, which the court accepted in January, the city and state of...