Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement,

and a former health commissioner here in Baltimore.

Our goal is to bring evidence and experience to illuminate critical public health issues.

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In today's bonus episode, our topic is the Supreme Court decision on concealed gun carrying.

I speak to Alex McCourt, a faculty member at Johns Hopkins and Director of Legal Research

for the Center for Gun Violence Solutions. Let's listen.

Alex McCourt, thanks for joining me so quickly here on Public Health on Call to talk about

this Supreme Court case. Can you tell us what the name of this case is? Sure. So this is New York

State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruin.

This is one of the big cases this term that everyone's been watching. Tell us what it's about.

So this case is focused on New York State's concealed carry permitting law. New York has a law in place and has for many years that requires

residents of the state to secure a permit to carry a gun in public. As part of this process,

applicants have to show that they have a proper cause for wanting to carry in public. And this proper cause

has to be greater than maybe a member of the general public might need. They have to show a special

need for carrying a gun in public. And so what happened here where there were these two guys who

applied for concealed carry permits. One of them applied and

said that his reasoning was that there had been a string of robberies in his neighborhood.

And another said that he just wanted it for self-defense. And they were both denied. So they

appealed with the help of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association,

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