Supreme Court's gun ruling opens door to next fight: Where can they be carried?
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Washington — State laws prohibiting people from carrying firearms in "sensitive" locations are providing the foundation for the next battle involving the Second Amendment in the wake of a recent Supreme Court decision, with the question in the courts shifting from whether Americans can have guns at home or in public to where they can be carried.
Already, challenges to so-called sensitive place restrictions in New York and the District of Columbia have been filed, and more are expected to follow from gun rights supporters, who argue the measures keeping them from bringing guns into places like houses of worship, on college campuses and in public parks infringe on their right to keep and bear arms.
"That's going to be an important and interesting battlefield going forward for Second Amendment cases," Joseph Blocher, an expert on the Second Amendment and professor at Duke Law School, told CBS News. "Until now, it's been a sleepy corner of Second Amendment law and scholarship, and that means there's going to be a lot of open questions to figure out, and the central one is, what makes a place sensitive such that the government can prohibit guns in that place?"
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