New Delhi, June 26 -- firearms were not welcome unless the owner had explicitly said otherwise. The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that arrangement violates the Constitution.

the right of Americans to carry arms for self-defense as they go about their daily lives."

The same six justices (Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett) handed down the ruling in the same session that produced two other 6-3 decisions stripping deportation shields from 350,000 Haitian and Syrian immigrants. The court's final weeks of the term have become a rolling expansion of executive and individual conservative priorities, with gun rights and presidential immigration power advancing on the same morning, by the same votes.

The practical reach of T...