Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied a gun store owner couple’s request to overturn New York’s background check law for ammunition purchases one day before it went into effect. Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) signed the Empire State Concealed Carry Improvement Act in response to Justice Clarence Thomas’s 6-3 decision to overturn the state’s century-old restrictive gun permit system. In a paperless order, Sotomayor denied a request for a sta…