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Locked and Loaded at the Supreme Court: Snope v. Garland and Ocean State Tactical v. Rhode Island Set to Explode into Landmark Second Amendment Rulings

Let me predict that the Supreme Court’s ultimate gunfight is set to restore the Second Amendment.   The United States Supreme Court has a habit of saving its biggest constitutional thunderclaps for the end of term—and this year is no exception. Two high-stakes Second Amendment battles—Snope v. Garland and Ocean State Tactical v. Rhode Island—are locked in at SCOTUS, and the justices are not letting them go quietly. Rather than issuing a routine denial or grant of certiorari, the Court has relisted these cases again and again in conference—an unmistakable signal to seasoned court watchers that the justices are circling something explosive. This pattern strongly suggests that the Court may be preparing to grant certiorari and use these cases to reaffirm and perhaps expand on the principles it laid down in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, 597 U.S. ___ (2022). In Bruen, the Court made it abundantly clear: the Second Amendment is not a second-class right. Any l...