The Supreme Court will soon hear oral arguments in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, a case challenging New York’s arbitrary and corrupt permitting system for carrying handguns. In Heller v. DC and McDonald v. Chicago, they held that the 2nd Amendment protected the right to own firearms.
But those decisions only applied to keeping a gun in the home. The question of whether it protects the right to carry outside the home remains open, and lower courts have done everything in their power to say it doesn’t. That question is central to the arguments in Bruen.
Now Amnesty International has seen fit to submit an amicus brief [pdf] in the current case that is just strange.
It makes three arguments:
U.S. courts should interpret U.S. law, including the Constitution, as consistent with U.S. obligations under international law.
I’m not sure what international law is threatened here, and neither are they since they don’t cite any. Continued...