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On The Eve of NYS Rifle & Pistol, A Correction in the New York Times

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The paper of record corrects the record about Rogers v. Grewal.

Here is the revised graf:

In a dissent last year, Justice Clarence Thomas agreed that the constitutional text supports a right to carry guns in public. "It would take serious linguistic gymnastics — and a repudiation of this court's decision in Heller — to claim that the phrase 'bear arms' does not extend the Second Amendment beyond the home," Justice Thomas wrote.