The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear National Shooting Sports Foundation, Inc. v. James, leaving New York’s gun-industry public nuisance law standing for now and giving anti-gun states a dangerous opening to continue their lawfare campaign against lawful gun makers, distributors, and dealers.
The Court’s June 15 order in docket No. 25-1026 says only two words that matter here: “Petition DENIED.”
That is not a ruling on the merits or an endorsement of New York Attorney General Letitia James’s attack on the firearms industry. It is not a declaration that Congress’s Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act is meaningless. But in practical terms, it leaves the Second Circuit’s bad decision in place and allows New York’s anti-PLCAA workaround to survive another day. That should concern every gun owner in America.
New York’s law was signed in 2021 by then-Governor Andrew Cuomo and was designed to expose firearm industry members to civil lawsuits under a so-called public nuisance theory. The law targets gun makers, wholesalers, distributors, and dealers for allegedly endangering public safety through the sale or marketing of firearms and ammunition.
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