Year: 2016 (Vol. 40)
Topics: Second Amendment
Question(s) presented: Whether the “good cause” requirement is a permissible limitation on an individual’s Second Amendment right to possess a gun in public.
Format: Word and PDF
Prepared by: Kristen Nicol
Used in: Orison S. Marden Moot Court Competition, Fall 2016
Preemption Notice!
The Supreme Court struck down New York’s “proper cause” requirement as violating the Fourteenth Amendment. N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) (striking down the two-step test used by courts for evaluating Second Amendment challenges and finding that “New York’s proper-cause requirement violates the Fourteenth Amendment in that it prevents law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their right to keep and bear arms”).