To sum, the NRA cherry-picked this extremely uncommon — and now nonexistent — regulation for one reason alone: to push their extreme and dangerous interpretation of the Second Amendment.



This was nothing more than a cynical attempt to use the courts to stop the gun safety gains made in statehouses and at the ballot box. The NRA and its allies wanted to use this Supreme Court case to challenge and roll back gun safety laws across the country, including laws regulating who can carry guns in public and where they can carry them, laws regulating assault weapons, high-capacity magazines, and silencers, and even laws restricting access to firearms by criminals, convicted domestic abusers, and others at a high risk of perpetrating violence.

Bottom line: If the NRA had its way with this Supreme Court ruling, we could have seen even more guns in public spaces, more guns in the hands of people who should not have them, and more guns on our streets.