In addition to everything else going on, we've had two federal appellate court gun rulings that are likely to end up before the Supreme Court in the past two days. This has been an incredibly busy week for gun politics.
First, the 9th Circuit essentially ruled the Second Amendment does not provide any right to carry a gun outside the home. That deepens the circuit split on that question while the Supreme Court is (literally today) considering taking a gun-carry case out of New York.
Then the 6th Circuit rules against the bump stock ban. That creates a new circuit split over the ban's constitutionality. And it's hard to see how that case doesn't also end up at the Supreme Court eventually.
Everyone has been waiting to see when the Supreme Court will take a gun case, especially since Amy Coney Barrett was appointed in October. Now, there are more practical legal reasons than ever for them to take one of these cases. Will they?
Honestly, who knows? The Supreme Court doesn't always do the thing everybody expects them to do. And they haven't taken a gun case over the past 12 years.
"The justices have continually surprised me on Second Amendment cases," @JacobCharlesNC told me Thursday.
"The justices have continually surprised me on Second Amendment cases," @JacobCharlesNC told me Thursday.
For more on the 6th Circuit bump stock ruling, read this story: freebeacon.com/guns/second-am…
For more on the 9th Circuit gun-carry ruling, read this story: freebeacon.com/guns/army-vet-…
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