I gave what I thought they should have said early in the thread. Basically, clearly state that AWBs and mag bans are unconsitutional for semi auto weapons. That's it. Clearly stated.
That wasn't at issue in the Bruen case, SCOTUS can't take a case that has to do with may issue carry laws and decide to rule on a litany of issues related to 2A, but they could do what they did in changing the judicial approach and changing scrutiny. SCOTUS will now see if district and appellate courts follow the new guidelines or continue to ignore SCOTUS.
The cases in the 9th Circuit and the upcoming appeals from this RI case along with other Massachusetts cases at the 1st Circuit will be very telling as the 9th Circuit is much more right wing, while the 1st Circuit is extremely left wing. The chances are high there will be a split between appellate courts and SCOTUS will have to settle the issue.
This is likely to happen within the next 3 years.
Frank is so correct on using the courts to substitute for legislation. I've read that in reviews. However, there are two among many problems. First, despite what the legal professions might say, when it comes to contentious social issues, judges and justices decide along their politics and then look for precedents. That's been pretty well documented most of the time, the few different cases are few. Currently, the justices are chosen for their pre-existing known beliefs on social issues. That's why the historical rule was again a mistake. Doubt Clarence thought of it. Some clerk was being clever. The others justices said why not, that sounds like it will make us look clever and wise.
I don't see decisive Scotus or legislative action for quite a bit. I agree that Scotus says - we did Bruen, we will go back into our cave as we did after Heller and McDonald.
Thomas has likely had a 2A draft in his files ever since Heller, perhaps longer, and the reason why few 2A cases have gotten to the court have been because of Kennedy as an unreliable vote by both sides. With a clear majority on the court, there's no reason more 2A cases won't be accepted after they've been worked thru the lower courts following the vacating and remanding under the new guidelines set by Bruen.
I don't like how everything got vacated and remanded, but it is going to be interesting to see just how many district and circuit judges ignore SCOTUS. They keep it up and we may see some quick action by the court on certain 2A issues.
Second, the pro gun legislature at the Federal level is a myth. The GOP (sorry to be political) does not take strong steps for pro gun legislation. The examples are out there easy to see. Why? Cowardice? Not really support gun rights? Worry the peasants will storm the houses of the rich? Wanting to keep the issue hot for elections and fund raising? All of these - sure. Recall, where the latest serious actual banning of a gun thing came from - Orange Alert. You can get what you want Nancy! I'm not afraid of the NRA.
Actually the latter has some truth as they have been much weakened by Wayne and now lacking an effective public spokesperson, plus their leeching themselves on to Team Orange, ignoring the growing gun population of diverse views.
I absolutely agree with you the legislature not being pro gun, but that only applies to the Senate and RNC leadership as the House in 2017 passed suppressor deregulation, but Ryan pulled that bill after the Scalise shooting and Turkey neck in the Senate wasn't likely going to move to introduce it anyway, not that it had any chance to reach 60 votes in the senate anyway.
The reality is with Federal legislation, unless the bill passes with a simple Senate majority, nothing pro-gun will ever come from it. The best we can get out of DC is no new legislation, which goes to show that the only real solution to 2A is thru the Judiciary.
The NRA is a shell of itself and no longer is all that important largely because even if the NRA lobbies the RNC, we saw the games Cocaine Mitch plays with funding Republican candidates who don't support him as Senate leader. When the money can't even get to the candidates, what's the point of donating to the NRA when Big Wayne is probably taking a percent of all donations to buy himself a new suit?
You can blame Trump all you want for bump stock bans, they were as good as gone whether it be thru Congress or Executive action. I was telling people then to make the deal with the Dems and trade the bump stocks for the suppressors, but nobody wanted to hear it and the result was you got neither bump stocks or suppressors. Trump is easy to blame tho and clearly it makes certain 2A supporters feel better to make themselves believe bump stocks being banned is all his fault.
JSYK, Trump is also the reason that pistol braces were just fine to shoulder for the 4 years he was in office.