The US Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Americans have a fundamental right to carry firearms in public in a landmark decision that will prevent states from restricting people carrying guns.
The US Supreme Court has ruled that residents are able to carry firearms in public.The court struck down a New York law that required people to have a self-defence reason for carrying a gun.
Despite a growing call for limits on firearms after two mass shootings in May stunned the country, the court sided with advocates who said the US Constitution guarantees the right to own and carry guns. Justice Clarence Thomas, who wrote the majority opinion, said"the Second and Fourteenth Amendments protect an individual's right to carry a handgun for self-defense outside the home.
On 14 May, an 18-year-old used an AR-15-type assault rifle to kill 10 African Americans at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. Gun-rights advocates said that violated the Second Amendment of the Constitution, which says"the right of people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."More than half of US states already allow permitless carry of firearms, most of them only doing so in the past decade.
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