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

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ALITO, J., dissenting 

or clubs were ones “located in New York City.”  App. 50, 63. 
At the relevant time, there were only seven such ranges in 
the entire City: two in Staten Island, two in Queens, one in
Brooklyn, one in Manhattan, and one in the Bronx.  See id., 
at 92–93.  All but one generally admitted only members and 
their  guests,  and  the  only  range  open  to  the  public  was
closed for a time during the pendency of the case below. 

B 
1 
In  2013,  three  individuals  and  one  organization  repre-
senting New York gun owners brought suit under Rev. Stat.
§1979,  42 U. S. C.  §1983,  against  the  City  and  the  NYPD 
License Division, contending that the restrictive premises 
license scheme, 38 N. Y. C. R. R. §5–23, violated their rights
under the Second Amendment and other provisions of the
Constitution. 

One of the individual petitioners, Romolo Colantone, has 
held a New York City firearms license since 1979.  App. 28–
29, 51.  Colantone currently has a premises license for his
residence  and  wishes  to  take  his  handgun  to  ranges  and 
competitions  outside  the  City  and  to  his  second  home  in 
Hancock, New York.  He refrained from doing so because of 
the  ordinance  prohibiting  such  travel.    Id.,  at  32,  53–54. 
For  example,  Colantone  registered  to  participate  in  the 
2012 World Class Steel Northeast Regional Championship 
in Old Bridge, New Jersey—about 20 miles from his home 
in the City.  Plaintiffs’ Memorandum in Support of Cross-
Motion  for  Summary  Judgt.  in  No.  13–cv–2115  (SDNY), 
Doc. No. 44 (Plaintiffs’ Memo).  But after the hosts of that 
competition  alerted  him  that  his  premises  license  did  not 
allow him to transport his handgun to New Jersey—and af-
ter  Inspector  Andrew  Lunetta,  the  commanding  officer  of
the  NYPD  License  Division,  confirmed  this—Colantone 
pulled out of the competition.  App. 32, 49–50, 55.