Faced with astonishing arguments from pro-gun advocates, SCOTUS continues to defer taking an appeal in a Second Amendment gun rights case.
A city's ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines is on the Court's doorstep. It is Friedman v. Highland Park. (A challenge to similar bans enacted by the states of New York and Connecticut is likely to arrive at the Court in a few months.)
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Federal appeals courts have upheld every assault weapons ban to come before them. So gun rights litigators have the bit in their teeth, eager to convince SCOTUS to bless their sweepingly broad interpretation of the Second Amendment.
Will the Court ultimately take this case? It has been "re-listed" on its calendar three times.
So far, the Supreme Court has declined to take every Second Amendment appeal to come before it since its seminal 5-4 decisions in Heller (2008) and McDonald (2010). Come below the elusive target ...
