An NRA-backed challenge to San Francisco's controversial gun storage law has been denied by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal spearheaded by the National Rifle Association regarding a San Francisco law requiring gun owners to keep their handguns stored in a lockbox or disabled with a trigger lock when not carrying at home.
According to Reuters, the decision leaves intact a March 2014 decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, which upheld the original regulation first introduced in 2007.
As Reason.com reports, the Supreme Court didn’t give a reason for its rejection of the appeal, but Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia — often seen as the two most conservative justices in the Supreme Court — offered a dissenting opinion, writing they would have heard the case because the San Francisco regulation is at “serious tension with Heller,” referring to the landmark 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller in which the Supreme Court nullified DC’s ban on handguns and reversed a similar requirement to the one instituted in San Francisco.
The case in question is Jackson v. City and County of San Francisco.