The Real World Implications of SCOTUS Abdicating its Role in Upholding the Law and its Own Second Amendment Rulings

Rogue judges and oath-breaking legislators have free rein to continue ignoring the Supreme Court precedent and the Second Amendment for at least the next couple of years. That’s the practical fallout from yesterday’s denial of cert in two very important gun control cases. SCOTUS abdicated their role in upholding the rule of law by letting stand gun and magazine bans, despite their clear 2022 ruling in Bruen.

Justice Kavanaugh wrote in his statement regarding the cases:

Additional petitions for certiorari will likely be before this Court shortly and, in my view, this Court should and presumably will address the AR–15 issue soon, in the next Term or two.

Let’s run that through the universal translator: “We’ll presumably take another look at gun ban cases in a year or two. In the meantime, you’ll just have to wait.”

There are at least nine or so big cases due to drop by the end of June. So what? The Justices abdicating their role in enforcing the law and their own rulings as the nation’s highest court isn’t the answer.

How does this affect gun owners in deep blue states? I’ll tell you: it has huge real world implications.  It means the Supreme Court is generally okay with the lower court decisions against gun rights, at least for the present time.  

As I’m not a lawyer, I can’t say whether or not a denial of cert has precedential value in future cases, but I do know the perception is that it very much does.

And that is why states like California, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Illinois and a host of other very anti-gun locations are going to eagerly embrace this news.

These gun control jihadists don’t have to worry about federal judges striking down gun control schemes.  Because SCOTUS isn’t going to spank those rogue judges if they misbehave.

It also affirms our decision at Guns Save Life not to pursue further appeals of our Firearms Owners ID Card challenge.  Why?  Because if we appealed to the US Supreme Court for relief and they rejected the appeal, that would effectively mean SCOTUS is okay with FOID schemes and plenty of other states would begin drafting their on FOID card laws.

Within a year or so, we might have a half-dozen or dozen states that require a license just to handle a gun at a store.  After all, if we had appealed and were denied, other federal courts would have had no reason not to ignore Bruen, the Second Amendment and the rule of law to strike down the new law.  They could just come up with a creative reason to sidestep Bruen, saying it doesn’t apply, knowing the Supreme Court wasn’t going to spank them for their judicial insurrection.

Heck, as it is now, states can pass all manner of new gun control measures (including FOID card laws) and ultimately none would likely be blocked by federal judges.

It also means the myriad of cases challenging the Land of Lincoln’s “Protect Illinois Communities Act” gun and magazine ban (among other things) won’t likely strike down the law anytime soon.  It might be two more years before SCOTUS hears it, at best.  Assuming our side doesn’t run out of money to pay the attorneys to keep the case alive.  And that’s a very real possibility.

So yesterday’s news from SCOTUS stands as a real-world abdication of their duty to maintain the rule of law.  It will have very real implications on our gun rights across the nation and not in any form of a good way.