Two weeks before Efrain Alvarez and his attorneys asked the U.S.
Supreme Court to hear their challenge to a
New York City regulation that limited where licensed handgun owners could transport their weapons,
police officers showed up at his Bronx apartment and took away all his firearms. From two imposing steel vaults in the back bedroom, they confiscated around 45 firearms, including five handguns. The officers arrested Alvarez, and he was charged with filing a false police report over a claim that one of his handguns had been stolen, a misdemeanor.