Saturday, November 19, 2022

Opinion | Women be warned: Originalism in guns laws will take America back to the 1700s - The Washington Post

But the evidence of fallout from Bruen is alarming. Last month, a federal judge in New York invalidated a state gun law passed in the aftermath of Bruen that restricted guns at summer camps, among other places; he reasoned that there weren't such camps in Colonial times. In September, Counts struck down a federal law that prohibited those indicted on felony charges, but not yet convicted, from possessing guns. "There are no illusions about this case's real-world consequences — certainly valid public policy and safety concerns exist," he acknowledged. "Yet Bruen framed those concerns solely as a historical analysis. This Court follows that framework."
 I wrote after the summer camp ruling that this was "originalism as parody." But that understated the situation. This is originalism as insanity...


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