SCOTUS Had 18 2A Cases. Took One — Then Cut the 2A Out.

Eighteen cases. Eighteen chances to rein in lower courts that have been openly defying *Bruen* since the day it was decided.

The justices took exactly one. Then they gutted it.

On April 24, one of those 18 petitions presented three questions — two of them direct Second Amendment challenges. The Court granted cert on the petition, then surgically removed both 2A questions, limiting review to the unrelated third issue only. That's not judicial restraint. **That's a disappearing act.**

Since *Bruen* dropped in 2022, the circuit courts have been in open rebellion. They've twisted the historical-tradition test, conjured phony historical analogues out of thin air, and upheld gun restrictions the Founders would have laughed out of the room — or loaded their muskets over. Gun owners have buried SCOTUS in petitions demanding the Court enforce its own ruling.

The Court keeps finding the side door.

This isn't a one-time slip. It's a pattern: accept a case, strip the 2A questions, wave goodbye. Every month the justices run this play, activist circuit judges keep building a tower of anti-gun precedent — precedent that lands on millions of law-abiding Americans like a boot on the neck.

As of the April 24 conference, the 17 remaining petitions were not granted. Whether they were denied, relisted, or held has not been confirmed — watch the official SCOTUS orders list at the next release. That detail matters, and the answer will tell you a lot about whether this Court has any appetite left for the fight.

**The bottom line is brutal:** SCOTUS had a clean shot, blinked, and handed the ball back to the very courts that have spent two years shredding *Bruen*. Until the justices stop treating the Second Amendment like a procedural inconvenience, the war stays in the circuits — and gun owners keep paying in lost rights, mounting legal fees, and creeping precedent that's harder to reverse with every passing term.

Watch the orders list. Back the groups in the trenches — GOA, FPC, SAF — who are keeping these cases alive. And make sure your senators know that confirming judges who apply *Bruen* as written, not as buried, is non-negotiable.

Because the next conference is coming. And so far, the Court's answer has been: *not our problem.*