The Supreme Court will meet behind closed doors this week to consider whether or not to proceed with a case that could impact Second Amendment rights.
Washington As the country reels from mass shootings over the summer and the political branches bicker over the scope of an individual's right to keep and bear arms, the Supreme Court will meet behind closed doors this week to consider whether or not to proceed with a case that could impact Second Amendment rights.
The case, currently scheduled for early December, is the first major Second Amendment case the court would hear since the late Justice Antonin Scalia's landmark DC versus Heller 2008 opinion and a follow-up opinion two years later. Supporters of gun rights believe lower courts have been thumbing their noses at those opinions by upholding some restrictions, and are eager for a newly solidified 5-4 conservative majority of the court to take up the issue and rule in the coming months.
Supreme Court rejects challenges to silencer laws 01:38Other cases in the pipelineThere are other Second Amendment challenges waiting in the wings. In fact, a New Jersey law similar to New York's under challenge has far more reaching implications.
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