18 Shots at 2A — SCOTUS Took the Case, Killed the Questions

Eighteen petitions. One grant. And the justices still managed to dodge the Second Amendment.

Last week's conference stacked 18 active cert petitions raising 2A issues. The Court took exactly one case — a three-question petition where two questions were squarely about the Second Amendment post-Bruen, post-Rahimi. SCOTUS granted cert on the lone non-2A question and left the gun rights issues sitting on the table.

**That is not an oversight. That is a deliberate, surgical erasure.**

Think about what had to happen for that result: the justices reviewed a petition, saw two direct Second Amendment questions, and consciously chose to skip both. They didn't miss them. They avoided them.

The Court isn't slow-walking your rights anymore — it's actively cutting them out of cases where gun owners finally cracked the door open. Two chances to clarify the law in a single case. Two flinches.

For the 17 petitions still waiting, the math is brutal. The term ends in late June. Any petition not granted before the justices leave for summer recess gets relisted, delayed, or quietly buried until next fall — minimum. Every conference that produces nothing is another six months of unconstitutional restrictions staying on the books.

And those restrictions aren't sitting idle. Lower courts are openly defying *Bruen* right now — conjuring historical analogues out of thin air, blessing laws that would have scandalized a 1791 courtroom, and running out the clock knowing SCOTUS won't step in. Every punt from One First Street is a green light for every rogue circuit that wants to pretend *Bruen* was a suggestion.

**Law-abiding gun owners are facing prosecution under those defiant rulings today.** Not hypothetically. Today.

The Court had 18 opportunities. It took one case and immediately hollowed out the only parts that could have moved the needle for your rights.

Here's what matters next: Track those remaining 17 petitions — if your circuit is implicated, the litigation organization fighting for you needs your support now, not after June. Contact your senators and demand they apply confirmation pressure on any future SCOTUS nominees specifically on *Bruen* compliance. The Court will not fix this on its own if nobody forces the issue.

The justices made their message loud and clear this week. **Make yours louder.**