The Supreme Court on Monday is set to hear its first major Second Amendment case in nearly a decade, weighing a challenge against a regulation in New York City that prevented licensed firearm owners from taking their weapons into and out of the city.
Gun rights activists brought the legal battle after a federal appeals court upheld a city ordinance that allowed licensed residents to take their firearms outside of their homes to only seven shooting ranges within the city, thus prohibiting them from transporting the weapons to a second home or a gun range outside city limits.
New York City, though, changed the regulation to allow licensed firearm owners to transport their handguns out of the city. Officials contend the change settles the lawsuit and want the court to dismiss the challenge as moot.
The case, however, gives the high court a shot at expanding gun rights. It’s the first time since 2010 that the justices will grapple with the reach of the constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
“There’s reason to believe that … they want to take the case because there are enough conservative justices now on the court that they want to reexamine how the court defined gun rights back in 2008,” said Robert Spitzer, a professor at State University of New York at Cortland who has written extensively on the politics of gun control.
Global News 
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