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Supreme Court says Americans have right to carry guns in public
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25 June 2022
WASHINGTON, 25 June 2022, (TON): The US Supreme Court ruled “Americans have a fundamental right to carry a handgun in public, a landmark decision with far-reaching implications for states and cities across the country confronting a surge in gun violence.”
The 6-3 decision strikes down a more than century-old New York law that required a person to prove they had a legitimate self-defense need to receive a permit to carry a concealed handgun outside the home.
Five other states, including California, and Washington, the nation’s capital, have similar laws and the ruling will curb their ability to restrict people from carrying guns in public.
Democratic President Joe Biden denounced the decision, saying “it contradicts both common sense and the Constitution, and should deeply trouble us all.”
Biden said “we must do more as a society not less to protect our fellow Americans.”
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