By: Kayleigh Hamilton
Even the Supreme Court is refusing to protect the freedom to own firearms.
They are surrendering to the gun control lobby.
And gun owners are not going to be happy when they hear this news.
The Supreme Court ostensibly has a conservative majority, but not all of the conservative judges on the Court are willing to actually fight hard for what they believe in.
Some, like Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito, and Clarence Thomas, have shown tremendous amounts of fortitude in the fight to preserve fundamental freedoms in the Constitution.
But others, like Brett Kavanaugh and John Roberts, have essentially rolled over and have often refused to take strong stands on the most controversial issues.
This has led to the Court refusing to take up some of the more controversial, but nonetheless clear-cut from a constitutional standpoint, Second Amendment cases that have been brought to them.
Unfortunately, this happened again recently, as the Court rejected multiple gun cases that could have expanded Second Amendment freedoms for Americans.
Not every member of the Court was on board with rejecting these cases, but majority rules, and the liberal judges along with the more “moderate” conservative ones voted it down.
According to Bearing Arms, “The Supreme Court rejected the appeals of gun owners in two cases on Monday morning, leaving in place the state of Maryland’s Handgun Qualification License, as well as a Third Circuit Court of Appeals decision that denied an injunction against the state of Delaware’s ban on so-called assault weapons and large capacity magazines.
“SCOTUS did not take action on two other cases involving bans on commonly possessed arms, however. Snope v. Brown, a challenge to Maryland’s ban on semi-automatic long guns, and Ocean State Tactical v. Neronha, a challenge to Rhode Island’s ban on ‘large capacity’ magazines, will likely be relisted for this week’s conference.”
The fact that they didn’t take action on the other two cases means there is theoretically still hope for them, but it seems that hope is fading quickly.
This is a very disappointing decision from the Supreme Court and it appears that some justices simply don’t want to deal with the issue.
The article continues, “The Fourth Circuit also previously signed off on Maryland’s Handgun Qualification License in a lawsuit brought by Maryland Shall Issue, Atlantic Guns, and two individual plaintiffs. As they noted in their lawsuit, Maryland’s law not only requires individuals to obtain a license before they can keep a handgun in their home, it also imposes a de facto 30-day waiting period on the exercise of our Second Amendment rights.”
There will be many more opportunities for the Supreme Court to take up gun cases over the next few years, but if some of the conservative justices simply aren’t interested, it likely won’t happen.
It would help if some of the people who were put on the Court with the goal of making it a more conservative body would act more like it, even when it comes to tough issues like gun control.