Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 minutes ago

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0:13:03 Last week, the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in favor of upholding a 1994 ban on persons with restraining orders having access to firearms. While the outcome in U.S. v. Rahimi wasn’t entirely unexpected, it did offer our first glimpse into how the conservative-majority Court would handle gun rights cases going forward.

#gunrights #supremecourt #gunlaws #secondamendment #podcast

Speakers:
- Duke Law Professor Joseph Blocher
- Duke Center for Firearms Law Co-founder Darrell A.H. Miller*
- Duke Center for Firearms Law Exec. Director Andrew Willinger

Timestamps:
0:00:00 Introduction
0:01:52 Reaction to ruling
0:04:09 Impact of the ruling/A win for gun control?
0:07:50 Takeaways from majority opinion
0:10:04 Did majority walk back 'Bruen'?
0:13:03 Supreme Court & future 2A cases
0:17:51 Need for categorical principle
0:21:28 Optics of Justice Thomas' lone dissent

View transcript: bit.ly/3SGVF66

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