By: Kayleigh Hamilton

The Supreme Court isn’t doing everything it can to uphold the Second Amendment.

Brett Kavanaugh had an opportunity to take action.

But instead, he made a decision that’ll upset gun owners.

For gun owners in blue states, court decisions impacting the Second Amendment have an outsized impact, as they are facing very hostile legislatures and governors.

They do not have the political sway to appeal to their politicians for relief, so they often have to turn to the courts to strike down some of the more oppressive laws that get passed.

There are many such gun owners in these blue states, as not everyone in Massachusetts or California is a liberal who doesn’t like guns.

Unfortunately, the Supreme Court refused to defend such gun owners in New York, as they failed to take up a case that would have challenged a gun control law in the state.

Conservative justices, including Brett Kavanaugh, could have dissented from this decision, as they sometimes do when the Court fails to take up a case.

But Kavanaugh and his colleagues said nothing indicating that they disagreed with the decision the Court made.

According to the New York Post, “The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid to overturn New York state’s gun laws, which Albany imposed after the high court nixed century-old restrictions on carrying concealed firearms in 2022.

“The justices did not specify why they declined to take up the petition from six residents who were challenging the Concealed Carry Improvement Act.”

Kavanaugh unfortunately has a history of being a bit softer on the Second Amendment than some of his conservative colleagues.

He does not necessarily side with the liberals on the Court, but he is unwilling to go as far as some of his colleagues like Neil Gorsuch or Clarence Thomas on the Second Amendment.

The article continues, “In June 2022, the Supreme Court overturned the 1911 Sullivan Act, which required anyone who wished to obtain a concealed carry permit to show ‘proper cause.’

“In a 6-3 ruling, the justices found that the New York law violated the Second and Fourteenth amendments ‘by preventing law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their right to keep and bear arms in public.’

“Chief Justice John Roberts and fellow conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh noted in a concurring opinion that states were still allowed to impose tight licensing requirements, but those needed to be spelled out rather than giving ‘open-ended discretion to licensing officials.’”

Kavanaugh and Roberts wrote this “concurring opinion” because they felt that the other four conservatives on the Court had gone too far in support of the Second Amendment.

They still joined with them in striking down the law, but on much narrower and more limited grounds than the ones supported by their colleagues.

Now they have refused to take a stand for the Second Amendment against these laws passed by the state of New York.

Gun owners will surely be disappointed that this law did not get struck down, despite the Supreme Court having a chance to do so.