US supreme court overturns New York handgun law in bitter blow to gun-control push

Biden says ruling should trouble us all' as conservative majority strikes down law requiring proper cause' to carry guns in public

The US supreme court has opened the door for almost all law-abiding Americans to carry concealed and loaded handguns in public, after the conservative majority struck down a New York law that placed strict restrictions on firearms outside the home.

The governor of New York, a Democrat, said the ruling was not just reckless, it's reprehensible". Pointing to recent mass shootings in New York and Texas, a leading progressive group called the ruling shameful and outrageous".