03-26-2021, 11:27 AM
(03-26-2021, 10:14 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: Specifically, Heller, which is the case that confirmed the individual right to own arms for self-defense stated that it was intended for "hearth and home." It avoided answering the question of the right to carry in public. Laws restricting the right to be armed in public date back to the earliest days of our republic and there is legal disputes on the topic, but nothing has been definitive in all this time.
This is why getting Barrett on the SCOTUS was so important. Lower courts have been ignoring large chunks of the Heller decision since the ruling was made. The "common use" provision alone should be enough to eliminate bans on certain firearms platforms, bans on standard capacity magazines and especially CA's egregiously unconstitutional hand gun roster. I think the current justices are waiting for the right case to become available so they can 5-4 nuke all these unconstitutional gun restrictions all at once. I have no faith in Roberts growing a spine on this, or any, issue.
