Gun Split Screen: Biden Signs Safety Measures As Justices Nix A Century-Old Law
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🗓️ 27 June 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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The new law comes just days after the Supreme Court's conservative majority ruled there is a constitutional right to carry a handgun in public for self-defense, striking down a long-standing New York law that restricted concealed carry.
This episode: congressional correspondent Kelsey Snell, WNYC reporter Jon Campbell, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Holly from Lake Guadolio. I'm here at Cedar Point in Sandusky with my |
| 0:06.7 | family on our first day of summer break. This podcast was recorded at 12.08 pm on |
| 0:13.3 | Monday, June 27. Things may have changed by the time you hear it but will still |
| 0:18.3 | be spinning, dropping, screaming and laughing our way through all the rides and |
| 0:22.9 | roller coasters. Okay, here's the show. Ah, that sounds really fun though. I have |
| 0:32.4 | to admit I have lost my younger selves appetite for roller coasters. Oh, I could |
| 0:38.1 | never go spinning but roller coasters I love. Hey there's the NPR politics podcast. |
| 0:43.3 | I'm Kelsey Snell, like our Congress. And I'm Domenico Montanero, a senior |
| 0:46.5 | political editor and correspondent. What is the future of gun rights in America? |
| 0:51.4 | On Saturday, President Biden signed the largest gun reform package in almost 30 years. |
| 0:56.8 | Well, this bill doesn't do everything I want. It does include actions I've long |
| 1:01.7 | called for that are going to save lives. But that was just days after the |
| 1:06.3 | Supreme Court issued a decision that overturned a longstanding New York law in a |
| 1:11.2 | decision that could have far reaching impacts on the kinds of gun |
| 1:14.4 | restrictions states are allowed to pass. Now, John Campbell of Member Station WNYC |
| 1:19.4 | joins us to talk about all of that. Hi, John. Hi. So I want to start with a |
| 1:24.1 | New York law. What exactly was the regulation that the court struck down? So |
| 1:28.5 | this was a 1911 law known as the Sullivan Law and basically what it said was |
| 1:34.1 | sure you can get a concealed carry permit but you have to show proper cause. |
| 1:38.8 | You can carry your weapon in public concealed but you have to have essentially a |
| 1:43.3 | special reason to need to defend yourself. So, you know, maybe you had some sort |
| 1:48.8 | of death threat. Maybe you're some sort of public figure who's had threats |
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