US appeals court largely upholds New Jersey gun restrictions

(Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Wednesday largely upheld a New Jersey law that broadly restricts carrying guns at a variety of "sensitive places" including parks, hospitals, libraries, museums, beaches, zoos and casinos. A 2-1 panel of the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that a lower-court judge wrongly concluded that the law violates the right to keep and bear arms under the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment and could not stand after a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that expanded gun rights. It marked the latest setback for gun rights advocates, after three other appeals courts upheld similar sensitive-places laws in California, Hawaii and New York.