SCOTUS Just Conferenced 57 Gun Petitions. Almost None Are Viramontes.
Tom Knighton at Bearing Arms, September 28: the justices conferenced that Monday on 57 firearms-related cases. The count he printed from Duke’s SCOTUS Gun Watch: 39 felon-in-possession or a state equivalent, 3 machine-gun cases, 3 challenges to § 922(g)(3) (unlawful drug users), plus one each on aliens under § 922(g)(5), Washington’s civil protection-order statute, Maryland sensitive places, 18-to-20 carry, a Commerce Clause attack on § 922(g)(1), shall-issue licensing, interstate reciprocity, a self-defense exception, domestic-violence misdemeanants, short-barreled shotguns, court-martial firearms restrictions, and New York’s taser/stun-gun ban. Named: Shepherd v. United States (SBS) and Salas-Martinez v. Texas (age/carry). Six more are listed for October 9. Viramontes and Grant are already granted. A conference is not a grant.
- Bearing Arms, Sept. 28: SCOTUS conferenced that day on 57 firearms-related petitions. Count sourced to Duke SCOTUS Gun Watch as quoted by Knighton.
- Largest bucket: 39 felon-in-possession / state equivalent. Also: 3 machine-gun, 3 § 922(g)(3), plus SBS, 18–20 carry, NY tasers, Maryland sensitive places, and more.
- Named cases in that report: Shepherd v. United States (short-barreled shotguns); Salas-Martinez v. Texas (age/carry).
- Oct. 9 list: six more (four g(1), two g(3)). Viramontes and Grant already granted. Conference ≠ grant.
- Orders from the Sept. 28 conference, when posted, are the next factual event.
Knighton dated the story September 28, 2026, 2:30 p.m. The conference was that day, the last one before OT2026 formally opened. He quotes the Duke Firearms Law tally: “The Court’s next conference is scheduled for next Monday, September 28th… At that conference, the Justices presently plan to discuss 57 firearms-related cases.” The breakdown in that block: 39 challenges to the federal felon-in-possession ban or a state equivalent; 3 on machine guns; 3 on § 922(g)(3); then the one-offs. Knighton’s two named vehicles: Shepherd v. United States, whether short-barreled shotguns are “Arms,” and Salas-Martinez v. Texas, age restrictions on lawful carry of a handgun for 18-to-20-year-olds. Federal dealer sales to that age band are a separate statute from carry.
October 9 already has six more firearms cases listed: four § 922(g)(1) and two § 922(g)(3). Viramontes v. Cook County and Grant v. Higgins — the assault-weapon bans — already have cert. This conference dump is the rest of the pile: prohibited-person statutes, SBS, tasers, licensing, reciprocity. A conference discussion is how petitions live or die. Most will be denied. A few may be held for Viramontes. One justice can ask for a response. Four are required to grant.
This is not a decision in Shepherd. It is not a decision in Salas-Martinez. It is the Court putting 57 gun captions on the same Monday list. The orders from that conference, when they post, are the next wire.
"Fifty-seven gun petitions on one conference list. Viramontes is already in. The rest are waiting for four votes or a denial."← More Stories
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