Holding that whether the plaintiff actually had a Second Amendment right to bear arms was irrelevant to whether he had standing to challenge a law impeding that right
Concluding that a plaintiff had standing to bring a preenforcement challenge where "his complaint and affidavit c[ould] only be understood to mean that if the threat of arrest [were] removed, he intend[ed] to travel to D.C. while armed"
Holding that plaintiffs who "allege no prior threats against them or any characteristics indicating an especially high probability of enforcement against them" lacked pre-enforcement standing
Fed. R. Civ. P. 15 Cited 95,100 times 92 Legal Analyses
Finding that, per N.Y. C.P.L.R. § 1024, New York law provides a more forgiving principle for relation back in the context of naming John Doe defendants described with particularity in the complaint
18 U.S.C. § 922 Cited 63,597 times 187 Legal Analyses
Finding that "even before the sale of a firearm, the gun, its component parts, ammunition, and the raw materials from which they are made have considerably moved in interstate commerce"