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Turmoil in courts on gun laws in wake of justices’ ruling

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and LINDSAY WHITEHURST

WASHINGTON (AP) — A landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Second Amendment is upending gun laws across the country, dividing judges and sowing confusion over what firearm restrictions can remain on the books.

The high court’s ruling that set new standards for evaluating gun laws left open many questions, experts say, resulting in an increasing number of conflicting decisions as lower court judges struggle to figure out how to apply it.

The Supreme Court’s so-called Bruen decision changed the test that lower courts had long used for evaluating challenges to firearm restrictions. Judges should no longer consider whether the law serves public interests like enhancing public safety, the justices said.

Under the Supreme Court’s new test, the government that wants to uphold a gun restriction must look back into history to show it is consistent with the country’s “historical tradition of firearm regulation.”

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One Comment

  1. Duncan Adams Duncan Adams February 20, 2023

    it’s so easy .. just obey the Second Amendment .. but that #####s up their precedent gig .. that should not exist anyway … making more bad decisions on a past bad legal decision …

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