We all love the huge win that the NYSRPA case brought to 2nd A supporters.
Today it got much better.
4 other 2nd A cases were appealed to SCOTUS and waiting on a writ of certiorari to see if if 4 or more Justices agree to hear the appeal. Most cases do not get "granted cert" and the ruling of the lower court stands.
Today all 4 cases were Granted, Vacated, and Remanded (GVRed) back to the lower courts for new rulings in compliance with the process layed out in the NYSRPA case for 2nd A cases.
This means that SCOTUS determined the cases were decided wrong and the lower courts must fix that according to the rules set out in NYSRPA. The text of the 2nd A and historical traditions of restrictions.
No kind of balancing review such as intermediate or strict scutiny.
The cases GVRed are:
Cali Mag Ban.
Maryland AWB.
HI open carry ban.
NJ mag ban.
Some of us were hoping SCOTUS would grant cert and hear the cases but this is even better. Major pee pee slap to all those lower appeals court.
It's basically winning a sumary judgement.
Today was a very good day.
SCOTUS GVRed all the 2nd A casesAlong those lines, the Supreme Court today GVR’d (granted cert, vacated the lower court rulings and remanded for reconsideration) the following cases in which the lower courts had upheld the gun control laws in question.
Young v. Hawaii — Challenges Hawaii’s ban on open carry as infringing citizens’ Second Amendment right to bear firearms outside the home.
Bianchi v. Frosh — Challenges Maryland’s “assault weapons” ban under Heller’s common use language.
ANJRPC v. Grewal — Challenges New Jersey’s “high capacity” magazine ban for violating the Second Amendment, the takings clause of the Fifth Amendment, and the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Duncan v. Bonta — Challenges California’s “high capacity” magazine ban as violating the Second and Fifth Amendments as well as the two-step interest-balancing process explicitly repudiated in the Bruen ruling.
The Court’s disposition of these cases today represents the first significant crack in the foundation that lower courts have built in the last 14 years to prop up gun control laws while violating the Heller decision and the Second Amendment.
