US Supreme Court declines New York gun rights case

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a New York gun rights case and chose again not to weigh in the gun control debate currently heating up nationwide.

The justices let stand a federal appeals court's decision that upheld New York's restriction on carrying guns outside home which is similar to the law in nine other states.

The high court made no comments why it rejected the appeal from five New York state gun owners and the Second Amendment Foundation, a gun rights group.

The New York law bans possession of a firearm in public, either openly or concealed, unless someone can demonstrate "proper cause" beyond the need for self-defense to secure a carry permit. A federal court of Appeals rejected the attempt to overturn the ban last year.

The state attorney general's office argued in its brief to the high court that the state has a "compelling interest in public safety and crime prevention" that makes the gun regulating measure necessary.

The Senate will open debate this week on gun control legislation, about four months after 20 schoolchildren and six educators were killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, which occurred in Newtown, Connecticut. The massacre has shocked the nation and renewed the gun control debate.

The Senate package of measures include providing more school safety aid, expanding federal background checks on gun sales and strengthening prosecution of illegal gun traffickers.

U.S. President Barack Obama has been trying to build momentum for gun control legislation at the national level through a series of public events over the past week.

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