{"id":90621,"date":"2023-03-08T14:58:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T20:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=90621"},"modified":"2023-03-08T14:58:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T20:58:09","slug":"90621","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=90621","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bearingarms.com\/camedwards\/2023\/03\/08\/bruens-chaos-is-a-much-needed-correction-n68189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bruen&#8217;s &#8220;chaos&#8221; is a much-needed correction<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ahead of four decisions on California gun laws that are expected to soon be released by U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez, the Los Angeles Times is advancing the narrative that the Supreme Court\u2019s Bruen decision is sowing \u201cchaos\u201d in the courts. But as we discuss on today\u2019s Bearing Arms\u2019 Cam &amp; Co, upending the untenable status quo is a good thing, particular given how the judiciary has abused \u201cinterest balancing\u201d tests to regularly uphold infringements on a fundamental right.<\/p>\n<p>Reporter Kevin Rector\u2019s coverage of how the courts have dealt with the Supreme Court\u2019s edict that those interest balancing tests are inappropriate is clearly slanted; not only in the front-page story itself, but he promoted his piece on social media.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1633109973864521733&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fbearingarms.com%2Fcamedwards%2F2023%2F03%2F08%2Fbruens-chaos-is-a-much-needed-correction-n68189&amp;sessionId=821c519113f290477dbcccab604676f5a232e862&amp;siteScreenName=BearingArmsCom&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=aaf4084522e3a%3A1674595607486&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1633109973864521733\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Yes, SCOTUS has rejected the interest-balancing tests that many lower courts adopted after the\u00a0<em>Heller\u00a0<\/em>decision in 2008, but as Justice Clarence Thomas made clear in\u00a0<em>Bruen<\/em>, that was never the appropriate test when it comes to gun control laws\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since Heller and McDonald, the Courts of Appeals have developed a \u201ctwo-step\u201d framework for analyzing Second Amendment challenges that combines history with means-end scrutiny. The Court rejects that two-part approach as having one step too many. Step one is broadly consistent with Heller, which demands a test rooted in the Second Amendment\u2019s text, as informed by history. But Heller and McDonald do not support a second step that applies means-end scrutiny in the Second Amendment context. Heller\u2019s methodology centered on constitutional text and history. It did not invoke any means-end test such as strict or intermediate scrutiny, and it expressly rejected any interest-balancing inquiry akin to intermediate scrutiny.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What Rector (and the vast majority of the sources he spoke to) object to is the fact that the Court\u2019s explicit instructions to discard those interest-balancing tests in favor of a text, history, and tradition test puts laws like California\u2019s ban on so-called assault weapons on shaky legal ground. No longer can the courts decide that even though a particular gun control law intrudes on the Second Amendment rights of citizens, it\u2019s okay because the government has an interest in promoting public safety. Now those laws must be justified through the historical record; something that is going to be difficult given that the gun control movement is a fairly modern creation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis new \u2018history and tradition\u2019 test that the Supreme Court established last June is wreaking havoc on America\u2019s gun laws,\u201d said Adam Winkler, a UCLA law professor who focuses on 2nd Amendment law. \u201cInstead of having a reasonable debate over whether a ban on assault weapons is good policy or not, we have to debate whether a ban on assault weapons has historical antecedents.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With all due respect to Winkler, the courts aren\u2019t the right venue for a \u201creasonable debate\u201d on the\u00a0<em>policy\u00a0<\/em>of a gun ban. Legislators can and will continue to debate banning \u201cassault weapons\u201d, but it\u2019s up to the judiciary to determine if those laws are constitutionally sound. And as much as the law professor complains that\u00a0<em>Bruen\u00a0<\/em>is wreaking havoc on gun laws, I\u2019d argue that when appellate courts like the Ninth Circuit refuse to\u00a0<em>ever\u00a0<\/em>find a gun control law unconstitutional the judiciary is wreaking havoc on a fundamental civil right.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Bruen\u00a0<\/em>decision will not lead to every gun control law being overturned, as disappointing as that might be for Second Amendment advocates. Heck, the Court said that \u201cshall issue\u201d concealed carry regimes are presumptively constitutional, and the justices pointed to places like schools, legislative assemblies, and polling places as locations that could likely be labeled \u201csensitive places\u201d without much legal trouble. But the Court\u2019s opinion\u00a0should also take an \u201cassault weapons\u201d ban and many other modern inventions of the gun control lobby off the table, at least if judges are willing to abide by what SCOTUS had to say.<\/p>\n<p>As we\u2019ve seen in places like Oregon, though, some judges are still finding new and creative ways to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bearingarms.com\/camedwards\/2022\/12\/06\/federal-judge-denies-attempt-to-block-enforcement-of-oregon-gun-control-measure-n64978\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">uphold gun control laws<\/a>\u00a0by stretching the boundaries of an historical analogue beyond credulity.\u00a0<em>Bruen\u00a0<\/em>may have put the lower courts on notice, but as valuable a course correction on Second Amendment jurisprudence as it might be, it can\u2019t and won\u2019t be the last word for the Court on our right to keep and bear arms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruen&#8217;s &#8220;chaos&#8221; is a much-needed correction Ahead of four decisions on California gun laws that are expected to soon be released by U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez, the Los Angeles Times is advancing the narrative that the Supreme Court\u2019s Bruen decision is sowing \u201cchaos\u201d in the courts. But as we discuss on today\u2019s Bearing Arms\u2019 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=90621\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courts","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90622,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90621\/revisions\/90622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}