"The question presented is: Whether the Second and Sixth Amendments permit a state to deprive an individual of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms based on the commission of an offense while denying the accused a right to a jury trial for that offense."
"The result is that while an adult accused of the offenses that trigger that prohibition would be constitutionally entitled to a jury trial, a juvenile accused of such offenses is not afforded the same protection..."
"The decision below thus leaves Nebraskans with fewer procedural protections against the loss of a fundamental constitutional right than noncitizens in other jurisdictions are guaranteed for the loss of a privilege that is not constitutionally protected."
"If non-constitutional consequences are sufficiently severe to trigger the Sixth Amendment, yet a complete loss of Second Amendment rights for years is not, then nothing is left of this Court's admonition that 'the right recognized in Heller [is not] a second-class right.'"
"Applying that same reasoning here, the court concluded that the new firearm-possession prohibition likewise cannot be considered a penalty, even though it follows automatically from an adjudication that a juvenile committed the offense."
"If the Sixth Amendment truly is indifferent to any consequence that does not come from the statute of conviction, then states could impose all manner of penalties for misdemeanors and juvenile offenses without providing jury-trial rights."
"Juveniles (like petitioner) are thus the only Nebraskans who can have their fundamental firearm rights taken away from them for several years of their adulthood without the protection of a jury trial..."
