(Washington)
Global Action on Gun Violence (GAGV) responds to today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Wolford v. Lopez, which struck down a Hawaii law that prohibited visitors from bringing guns onto private property open to the public unless they have consent from the property owner. GAGV was the only amicus to argue that the Court’s key Second Amendment precedents, Bruen and Heller, were wrongly decided and should be overturned. In her dissent, Jackson echoed these points, stating that Bruen was “wrongly decided,” and that “the Court has now manipulated Bruen into a free-for-all that lets the Judiciary thwart the will of legislatures by privileging access to firearms above all else.”
GAGV’s President, Jonathan Lowy, said:
“Justice Jackson is fast establishing herself as the voice of sanity, reason and principle in Second Amendment cases. Again, she got it exactly right: the Court’s history test is unworkable, unwise, and not actually about history. The Court is picking and choosing from the historical record to elevate gun rights over property rights, over state rights, and ultimately, over our paramount right to live. The Court’s misguided Second Amendment precedents, Heller and Bruen, should be reversed, and replaced with a balancing of risks and rights that the Court is already doing, albeit under the guise of originalism.”
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Global Action on Gun Violence
Global Action on Gun Violence is a non-profit organization dedicated to ending gun violence in the U.S. and throughout the world, using litigation, human rights actions, advocacy and messaging. GAGV work includes representing the Government of Mexico in anti-gun trafficking litigation, acting as foreign legal counsel in a Canadian gun lawsuit, and is active in the United Nations, Organization of American States and other international bodies. GAGV’s President, Jon Lowy, has litigated Second Amendment and other gun cases for over 25 years.
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