A district court in Texas has overturned a red flag law because in 1787 there weren't any red flag laws.
That decision was piggyback on the Bruen decision from last year by Ol' Clarence and the Boys (actually there was one girl).
SCOTUS said that in looking at the Constitutional validity of laws it is necessary to see if there are historic precedents dating to the time of the Constitution's framing.
New York had none, other than the very old law the SCOTUS just found unconstitutional, so that old New York law was found to be unconstitutional.
I can't help but wonder how SCOTUS gets by with that logic while at the same time they say that the original words “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” means that every household is an armory and that that armory needs to be well equipped with killing devices that didn't exist when the Second Amendment was written - probably late one afternoon, just before the framers all retired to the local Pub for the day.
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