Bloomberg Flames Out

Enumerated rights have a higher threshold for regulating and limiting than do rights emanated from the Constitution's penumbra. In the Heller decision, the Supreme Court ruled the Second Amendment protected the individuals right to arms.

Supreme Court Justices decline the Bloomberg New York gun suit. allowing suits against car companies for drunk driver's crimes, oh wait, it's gun companies for crimes committed with guns.

New York City's nine year lawsuit accusing gun makers of flooding illicit markets with their firearms came to an end on Monday, when the United States Supreme Court refused to consider a lower court's dismissal of the case.

New York City’s nine-year lawsuit accusing gun makers of flooding illicit markets with their firearms came to an end on Monday, when the United States Supreme Court refused to consider a lower court’s dismissal of the case.

Without comment, the justices decided not to review a ruling by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which declared on April 30 that federal law protected the manufacturers from such suits.

The appeals court had overturned a decision by Judge Jack B. Weinstein of Federal District Court in Brooklyn, who ruled in 2005 that the suit could proceed despite protests by gun makers like Beretta U.S.A., Browning Arms, Colt Manufacturing, Glock and Smith & Wesson. The gun companies had complained that a federal law passed just two months earlier shielded them from such suits.

Read more about it: The New York Times