Major Second Amendment case awaiting Supreme Court decision - WFIN Local News

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : The closely-watched case, New York State Rifle & Pistol Asso-ci-ation Inc. v Bruen, addresses whether New York state's concealed carry law violates the Second Amendment.
55% : "There's been a big push to get more Second Amendment cases before the courts because many people believe that the lower courts were not being faithful to the Supreme Court's decision in 2010 saying that states, as well as the federal government, were restricted by the Second Amendment," Seth Chandler, a professor at the University of Houston Law Center who teaches constitutional law, told ABC News.
55% : A technical but potentially consequential "sleeper issue" in this case, Miller also noted, is whether the court takes a "text, history and tradition"-only approach in instructing lower courts on how to think about Second Amendment rights, or if judges can continue to consider modern evidence like social science data while balancing individual rights against state laws promoting public safety.
55% : The text, history and tradition-only approach -- which gun rights advocates have pushed -- "essentially says that only those regulations that have some equal or analogue and history are constitutional, and all other regulations are not," Miller said.
52% : It is the most significant case regarding the Second Amendment since the high court affirmed the right to bear arms with its 2010 decision rendering Chicago's nearly 30-year ban on handgun ownership unconstitutional.
50% : Gun control advocates like the Giffords Law Center warn that relaxing concealed carry laws could increase the risk of gun violence, while gun rights groups argue that laws like New York's are unfair and overly discretionary.
42% : If the court adopts that approach, other gun regulations -- such as those prohibiting guns on planes or keeping them out of the hands of people convicted of domestic viol-ence -- may suddenly become subject to that analysis, according to Miller, who was among a group of scholars who filed a brief in the Bruen case on behalf of neither party urging the court not to apply a text, history and tradi-tion-only approach.

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