WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court for a second straight year refused on Nov. 5 to hear a challenge to California’s limits on carrying handguns in public, dealing another setback to gun rights proponents.
The court’s action underscored its continued reluctance to step into a national debate over gun control roiled by a series of mass shootings including one at a Pittsburgh synagogue that killed 11 people on Oct. 27. It has not taken up a major gun case since 2010.
