Since the June ruling, federal judges in at least a half-dozen different cases have already cited the Bruen decision to rule against gun restrictions that have included local assault weapons bans, prohibitions on the manufacture of homemade firearms and bans on older teenagers publicly carrying handguns.
The decision was the first major Supreme Court guns ruling in more than a decade, and it came after Justice Clarence Thomas - who authored the majority opinion - had previously complained that the high court had allowed the Second Amendment to be treated as a "a disfavored right." Though the Supreme Court case concerned a type of gun permitting regime embraced by just a handful of states, the conservative majority used the Bruen decision to provide new instructions for how courts are to assess the constitutionality of gun laws nationwide. Bruen, scores of new lawsuits have been filed against gun restrictions at the federal, state and local levels.
In the three months since the 6-3 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. "Quickly, we knew this was something that was going to change the landscape," Brown said.
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