STATEMENT: AAPI Victory Alliance Calls for Expansion of SCOTUS in Response to Decision to Strike New York’s Gun Safety Law

WASHINGTON — Today, the Supreme Court struck down a major piece of gun safety legislation in New York. This devastating decision in the Bruen case from an activist Conservative court will increase the risk of gun violence throughout New York and the rest of the country by making it easier to carry a gun.

AAPI Victory Alliance Executive Director Varun Nikore issued the following statement:

“While Americans continue to reel from seemingly endless acts of gun violence, the Supreme Court made an alarming and potentially fatal decision that will only increase the likelihood of gun violence.

“Gun violence and loss of life as a result of gun violence is unequivocally preventable, but this ruling gives an extremist right-wing minority the green-light to loosen gun restrictions for the sake of the gun lobby only. This Court has been bought out; we must win elections and expand it!”

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