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The Supreme Court’s landmark 2022 ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen upended Second Amendment law by mandating that modern gun restrictions align with historical firearms regulations. Since Bruen, reports The Trace’s Chip Brownlee, judges are not so much arbiters of modern safety as reluctant antiquarians, tasked with finding 18th- or 19th-century parallels for today’s gun laws.
Brownlee’s latest story, published in partnership with Slate, breaks down the chaos the Supreme Court decision has sown. Using his analysis of more than 2,000 challenges to gun laws since Bruen, Brownlee found that a case’s outcome now hinges…