Supreme Court (Again) Punts on the Second Amendment, Leaves Voters to Carry the Ball
3:00pm Tuesday, December 22, 2015
[Recently], the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit that upheld a Chicago-area “assault weapons” ban against a Second Amendment challenge. This was the second time this year that the Supreme Court refused to hear a Second Amendment case, thereby allowing a broad gun control law to stand. As in that previous case, the court’s...