WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Tuesday accepted its first major Second Amendment case in a decade, a challenge to New York City regulations prohibiting most licensed handgun owners from taking their weapons outside their residences except to local shooting ranges and other designated locations. The case, to be heard in the 2019-20 term that begins in October, offers gun-rights activists their first opportunity to expand the constitutional right to weapons beyond a pair of landmark decisions that, beginning in 2008, for the...
Source: Wall Street Journal January 22, 2019 15:21 UTC