SECOND AMENDMENT NEWS: New York City, Which Defended Its Onerous Gun Transport Restrictions As Necessary for Public Safety, Concedes They Weren’t: Several justices seem skeptical of the claim that revising the rules after SCOTUS agreed to consider a challenge to them made the case moot. My friends who attended the argument — I’m on one of the amicus briefs — seemed to think the Supreme Court might make the case more about mootness than the Second Amendment. But impressions formed during oral arguments are often unreliable.