Supreme Court rules 9-0, sending Democrats into a panic

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday handed gun owners a major victory in a legal struggle between the National Rifle Association and the state of New York that tested the limits of the First Amendment.

In a unanimous 9-0 ruling, justices found that the NRA was within its rights to be removed from a blacklist it was placed on by New York to prevent the state’s Department of Financial Services from contracting with gun proponents in any way. Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for the majority, reasoning that it “holds that the NRA plausibly alleged that Vullo violated the First Amendment by coercing DFS-regulated entities to terminate their business relationships with the NRA in order to punish or suppress the NRA’s advocacy.”