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Cite as:  590 U. S. ____ (2020) 

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ALITO, J., dissenting 

that they have the right under the Second Amendment to
unrestricted access to out-of-city ranges and competitions—
is  unchanged,  and  this  claim  does  not  require  an  amend-
ment of the complaint or any supplementation of the record 
to support their allegations of injury. 

For  these  reasons,  there  is  no  justification  for  holding 

that this case is moot. 

IV 
A 
Having shown that this case is not moot, I proceed to the
merits of plaintiffs’ claim that the City ordinance violated 
the Second Amendment.  This is not a close question.  The 
answer follows directly from Heller. 

In Heller, we held that a District of Columbia rule that 
effectively prevented a law-abiding citizen from keeping a 
handgun  in  the  home  for  purposes  of  self-defense  consti-
tuted a core violation of the Second Amendment.  554 U. S., 
at 635.  We based this decision on the scope of the right to 
keep and bear arms as it was understood at the time of the 
adoption of the Second Amendment.  Id., at 577–605, 628– 
629.  We recognized that history supported the constitution-
ality of some laws limiting the right to possess a firearm, 
such as laws banning firearms from certain sensitive loca-
tions  and  prohibiting  possession  by  felons  and  other  dan-
gerous individuals.  See id., at 626–627; see also McDonald, 
561 U. S., at 787, 904.  But history provided no support for 
laws like the District’s.  See 554 U. S., at 629–634. 

For a similar reason, 38 N. Y. C. R. R. §5–23 also violated 
the Second Amendment.  We deal here with the same core 
Second Amendment right, the right to keep a handgun in 
the  home  for  self-defense.  As  the  Second  Circuit  “as-
sume[d],” a necessary concomitant of this right is the right
to take a gun outside the home for certain purposes.  883 
F. 3d, at 58–59.  One of these is to take a gun for mainte-
nance or repair, which City law allows.  See §5–22(a)(16).