Supreme Court throws out New York’s concealed weapons law. Here’s what it means for California

California’s gun laws are widely viewed as some of the strictest in the country by advocates on both sides of the gun-control debate. But a new Supreme Court ruling puts a number of those laws on shaky constitutional ground.

Writing for the 6-3 majority in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association vs. Bruen, Justice Clarence Thomas held that New York’s law on concealed weapons licenses violated the 2nd and 14th Amendments by requiring people to show a “special need for self-protection.”

Read more at the Los Angeles Times.