Supreme Court Strikes Down Blatently Unconstitional Gun Regulation

Another one bites the dust.



And here it is......Thomas addressing the lower courts just ignoring Heller and the rest of the Supreme Court rulings...

(1) Since Heller and McDonald, the Courts of Appeals have devel- oped a “two-step” framework for analyzing Second Amendment chal- lenges that combines history with means-end scrutiny. The Court re- jects that two-part approach as having one step too many. Step one is broadly consistent with Heller, which demands a test rooted in the Sec- ond Amendment’s text, as informed by history. But Heller and McDon- ald do not support a second step that applies means-end scrutiny in the Second Amendment context.

Heller’s methodology centered on constitutional text and history. It did not invoke any means-end test such as strict or intermediate scrutiny, and it expressly rejected any interest-balancing inquiry akin to intermediate scrutiny. Pp. 9–15.
 
And this...

Because “individual self-defense is ‘the central component’ of the Second Amendment right,” these two metrics are “‘central’” considerations when engaging in an analogical inquiry. McDonald, 561 U. S., at 767 (quoting Heller, 554 U. S., at 599).
 
Thomas is dealing with the leftist attempt to just declare entire cities "Sensitive Places," so they can keep gun bans in place...

That said, respondents’ attempt to characterize New York’s proper-cause require- ment as a “sensitive-place” law lacks merit because there is no histor- ical basis for New York to effectively declare the island of Manhattan a “sensitive place” simply because it is crowded and protected gener- ally by the New York City Police Department. Pp. 17–22.
 
New York Governor Kathy Hochul said the Supreme Court has "stripped away the rights" of New York with a decision "frightful in its scope," setting us back "to the days of our founding fathers."

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