I spoke to 3 of the top gun law experts in the country. They were less than optimistic about how gun-rights advocates might fare in the Supreme Court's first-ever gun-carry case. thereload.com/experts-say-sc…
“Gun-rights advocates should not count their chickens yet,” Robert Leider, assistant professor at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, told The Reload. “There are several ways this case could go against the challengers.”
“They might try and duck the issue or find some way to avoid ruling on it or make some really narrow ruling that only affects New York and let them modify their law to get around it,” Josh Blackman, a South Texas College of Law professor and Cato Institute scholar, said.
“We might get some judges looking to the history and coming to one outcome. We might get some judges who are applying tiers of scrutiny, intermediate scrutiny or strict scrutiny, and coming to different conclusions,” @JacobCharlesNC of Duke Law said.
That's a lot more. Read the whole piece here: thereload.com/experts-say-sc…
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