There was just a legal victory for gun owners in the ongoing battle over the Second Amendment.

Specifically, an organization called the Gun Owners of America,

they secured a partial but significant legal victory in their effort

to repeal New York's so-called Concealed Carry Improvement Act.

And even though this was a New York case, the ramifications of this decision will be felt in blue

cities and blue states across the whole nation. However, in order to explain what

this means in practical terms, let me sit at the stage for you properly regarding this particular

legal battle. Now to start with, the US Supreme Court decision which started all

this is the famous Bruin case, which just for your reference was the first gun

rights related case to be heard by the US Supreme Court in well over a decade.

Let me give you a brief refresher on what that particular case was all about.

You see, up until last year, if you happen to be a resident of New York

it was almost completely impossible to get a concealed carry permit. That's

because the state of New York has been for the past 111 years forcing people to prove

that they have a quote-unquote special need for self-protection. The relevant

statute in New York was the Sullivan Act of 1911 and that that particular law, it made it such that concealed carry permits can be issued at

the sole discretion of local law enforcement.

And in order for a common citizen to obtain one of these concealed carry permits, he or she must quote,

demonstrate a special need for self-protection distinguishable from that of the

general community or of persons engaged in the same profession.

Meaning that only if the local police agreed

that you have a special need for self-protection would you be given a license to

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