This report is a part of" Rethinking Gun Violence," an ABC News series examining the level of gun violence in the U.S.--and what can be done about it.... The latter is" far more hostile to gun laws than the judicial one," he said--and also more prevalent. Before you even get to the Constitution, there's a huge array of other laws super protecting the right to keep and bear arms.... " The aspirational Second Amendment is overtaking the judicial Second Amendment in American law," he wrote in the

WASHINGTON( AFP)-The conservative-majority US Supreme Court is to hear a gun rights case on Wednesday( Nov 3) that could lead to looser restrictions on carrying firearms in public.At issue is a challenge backed by the gun lobby to a New York law that regulates the carrying of guns outside the home.It will be the first major case involving the Second Amendment constitutional right to bear arms heard by the nation's highest court in more than a decade. The high-stakes case will be argued before a