"Since Heller and McDonald, the Courts of Appeals have developed a 'two-step' framework for analyzing Second Amendment challenges that combines history with means-end scrutiny. The Court rejects that two-part approach as having one step too many."
Henceforth the "history and tradition" model will apply when courts assess the constitutionality of gun laws and regulations.
This changes the whole game.
We might be able to completely undo all of Cornyn's fuckery and more with this!
I was just looking at several of the California gun cases like Rupp, et al v. Becerra and Miller, et al v. Bonta, and they are both currently paused pending the outcome of this case. I would suspect that the 9th Circuit will reluctantly craft their decision consistently with this ruling.
EDIT: It will be interesting to see what SCOTUS does with Duncan v. Bonta, which earlier tossed the magazine ban but the full panel overruled it and is now pending cert.
The best part of this ruling is this portion:
"Since Heller and McDonald, the Courts of Appeals have developed a 'two-step' framework for analyzing Second Amendment challenges that combines history with means-end scrutiny. The Court rejects that two-part approach as having one step too many."
Henceforth the "history and tradition" model will apply when courts assess the constitutionality of gun laws and regulations.
This changes the whole game.
We might be able to completely undo all of Cornyn's fuckery and more with this!
I was just looking at several of the California gun cases like Rupp, et al v. Becerra and Miller, et al v. Bonta, and they are both currently paused pending the outcome of this case. I would suspect that the 9th Circuit will reluctantly craft their decision consistently with this ruling.
EDIT: It will be interesting to see what SCOTUS does with Duncan v. Bonta, which earlier tossed the magazine ban but the full panel overruled it and is now pending cert.