The ruling, which comes as the country grapples with a shocking surge in gun crime, overturns a New York law that required person to prove legitimate needs to receive a gun permit.
San Jose city council says gun violence costs the city nearly $40 million a year, including for emergency police and medical response, health care, and investigations.
The number of mass shootings have jumped 65 percent in the first six months of 2021 compared to pre-pandemic levels in 2019.
Supreme Court agrees to hear a challenge backed by National Rifle Association to New York state's restrictions on people carrying concealed handguns outside the home.
US Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett says she will consider both sides of arguments over health care, sexual preference discrimination, guns or reproductive rights.
Rising gun sales in the US have seen a proportionate increase in prices as well as first-time owners.
Police Minister Stuart Nash said that if lawmakers pass the bill as expected, the new law will take effect April 12, less than a month after the March 15 terror attacks.
In both unrelated incidents in Houston and Long Beach, the gunmen entered their place of work and opened fire before turning their gun on themselves.
Proponents say the new gun law could prevent mass shootings while critics say it will endanger safety at varsities.
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