Supreme Court eyes more gun cases as conservatives signal eagerness to expand 2nd Amendment
of the justices' private conference on Friday, where they met to decide which cases they will hear in the upcoming term.
"The only question is: How many justices are in that group, when are they going to take that case, and what case are they going to take?" he said. It only takes four justices from the nine-member panel to vote to hear a case. Given that arithmetic, activists on both sides of the Second Amendment debate are virtually certain that the battle over gun rights will heat up at the Supreme Court when its next term begins in October.The fight over the reach of the Second Amendment has been a constant battle in U.S.
, though they have split on whether states can require individuals to show "good cause" to obtain a public carry permit. Most have said such regulations are permissible. Eric Tirschwell, the managing director for Everytown Law, an anti-gun violence group, said that it's most likely that the court will take up one of the cases it's considering about public carry permits.
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