It has been over a decade since the U.S. Supreme Court has taken a Second Amendment case, which has been far too long. That reality was highlighted by Justice Clarence Thomas in 2018 when he chided his fellow justices for failing to take up a gun-rights case, stating, âThe right to keep and bear arms is apparently this Courtâs constitutional orphan.â Furthermore, it wasnât as if there was a dearth of Second Amendment cases demanding the Courtâs attention, especially given the efforts of cities, states, and lower courts to erode the Courtâs own precedents in Heller and