Supreme Court expands gun rights in major Second Amendment ruling

(The Hill) - The Supreme Court struck down a New York state law that made it difficult to obtain a handgun carry permit, marking the justices’ first major opinion on Second Amendment rights in more than a decade.The decision to invalidate New York’s law throws into question the legality of similar restrictions in more than a half dozen other states that give licensing officials wide discretion over concealed carry permitting.The ruling comes after recent mass shootings reignited a wr