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to carry a gun. the justices this morning throwing out a new york law that required residents to prove they had a reason to carry a gun outside the home. the ruling was 6-3 with justice clarence thomas writing for the conservative majority. he said the special cause to carry a concealed handgun was a violation of the second amendment right to bear arms. we have more details on this dramatic decision. >> reporter: the immediate affect is to strike down this gun law in new york. it required people to show proper cause to get a license to carry a concealed handgun in public. it's now st...

Press on that issue in the weeks and months ahead. the timing here could not be more interesting in the sense that at this moment in time on capitol hill, the senate is in the midst of voting to break the filibuster on the most significant piece of gun safety legislation since 1994. obviously the white house is behind that. the president has been involved in the background in the efforts to get that towards a deal. they are on the verge of pretty significant gun legislation that the president supports. but when it comes to the ruling specifically, the president making very clear he's unhappy w...

When you go through this, joan kwlarks can and cannot state legislatures or the united states congress do if they're inclined to impose new restrictions? >> they will try to do more and try to argue that what they're doing doesn't conflict with the new test that's going to look back at traditional history in america. and they'll make those arguments just like new york actually made those arguments here for this law that had been on the books for 100 years. but it failed. what happened up to this point was that lower courts were much more receptive to gun control. after this lower courts will h...