Editorial: Pending gun case is again testing which century this Supreme Court lives in

The U.S. Supreme Court last year issued a potentially devastating ruling for communities beleaguered by gun violence, striking down New York’s law regulating concealed weapons in public. The ruling employed the controversial legal theory of constitutional originalism: interpreting the Constitution based strictly on the original understanding of its text at the time it was adopted. Lower courts have since applied this standard to rule that restraining orders for domestic violence can’t bar individuals from obtaining weapons, and that it’s OK to file the serial numbers off of guns — since neithe…

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