Supreme Court Vacates State’s Gun Control Law

The ⚖️Supreme Court has vacated a Massachusetts court’s ruling on a 🔫Gun control law that restricted the ability to purchase and possess handguns.

The nation’s high court ordered the lower court to reconsider the decision in Morin v. Lyver that challenged a Massachusetts law covering the purchase and ownership of handguns, according to Fox News.

Included in the law’s restrictions was the need for residents to have a handgun license to purchase a gun and also includes banning anyone convicted of nonviolent misdemeanors from ever purchasing or possessing a gun.

The court’s decision to require that the lower court reconsider the case is consistent with its landmark ruling from the last term where they decided in a 6-3 vote that the New York law requiring people to demonstrate “proper cause” to get a concealed handgun permit was unconstitutional.

Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the majority at the time saying, “The constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense is not ‘a second-class right, subject to an entirely different body of rules than the other Bill of Rights guarantees.’ We know of no other constitutional right that an individual may exercise only after demonstrating to government officers some special need.”

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