U.S. Supreme Court,
Constitutional Law
Dec. 2, 2019
Gun control at the US Supreme Court
Although the New York challenge could yield a landmark decision, it could also leave big questions under-resolved. The court could even end up firing blanks.
Glenn C. Smith
Professor
California Western School of Law
Glenn teaches constitutional law and a Supreme Court decision-making seminar at California Western School of Law and with the University of California, San Diego Political Science Department. He is the principal co-author of "Constitutional Law for Dummies" [John Wiley & Sons, Inc.]. His monthly "Constitutional Context" audio podcasts are hosted by SDSU's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (and available by app from I-Tunes and other major service providers).
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral argument in its first gun-control challenge since the justices declared in 2008 that the Second Amendment protects “the right of a law-abiding, responsible citizen to keep a firearm in his home for lawful purposes such as self-defense” (District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570) and applied that newly invigorated right two years later to state and local gun-control ordinances ($95
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