aka if a bunch of libs are elected next year to Congress do we have a bulwark, given the current make up of SCOTUS, against a national ban an "assault weapons" and high capacity mags? I'm trying to understand how worried we should be.
https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebat...ed-gun-control
In 2008, the Supreme Court affirmed in District of Columbia v. Heller that a federal handgun ban violates the Second Amendment. Two years later in McDonald v. Chicago, the justices held that state and local governments also could not prohibit handguns. Over the last six years, a bevy of challenges have been filed against various firearm laws. For the most part, the lower courts of appeal have upheld them. On appeal, the gun-shy Supreme Court has refused to intervene in every Second Amendment case since McDonald. In December 2015, Justices Thomas and Scalia castigated their colleagues’ complacency, as the inferior courts “relegat[ed] the Second Amendment to a second-class right.”
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