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>> yeah, well what i'll say is what i was thinking about is how, you know, when our judicial advocacy team wrote the brief that we submitted in this case, all of us, you know, at the time of d.c. versus heller, our advocacy time was in first grade. i was in second grade. we must refuse to pass this on to another generation. that's what i was thinking about. i don't want to see another young person standing on the steps of the supreme court of the united states fighting to end this american epidemic that is a choice that, you know, does not have to continue. >> jonathan, one of the questions to...

Situations where the courts, as a group, their ignorance of the real world always comes through in these kinds of arguments about gun laws. >> yeah, absolutely. i think one of the important things for every american to know is it wasn't until 2008, d.c. versus heller that the court struck down a gun law. we're actually talking about the history, the history is much more in support of the court upholding, you know, a well-regulated militia, and common sense gun laws, that the vast majority of americans support. i cannot overstate enough the importance of every day americans thinking their voice...

Unrestricted firearm access and judge benitez's decision last week, the united states has seen several cases that chipped away at comments common sense gun control measures. perhaps most importantly, in 2008, with d.c. versus heller. in which the supreme court after more than 200 years of acknowledging limits on gun ownership decided to scrap all that precedent and say that the second amendment guaranteed almost any individuals right to own egan. there's no evidence that the founding fathers intended this at all. but even if there were, those men could not have conceived of the weapons we can ...

And judge benitez's decision last week, the united states has seen several cases that chipped away at common sense gun control measures. perhaps most importantly, in 2008 with d.c. versus heller, in which the supreme court, after more than 200 years of acknowledging limits on gun ownership, decided to scrap all that precedent and say that the second amendment guaranteed almost any individual's right to own a gun. there's no evidence that the founding fathers intended this at all, but even if there were, those men could not have conceived of the weapons we wield today. indeed, some of the deadl...

Significantly what the chief justice said. but if the case doesn't go moot or if, you know, whatever the -- whenever the court decide to hear another second amendment case. what's really at stake here is how this court and future federal courts are going to evaluate the constitutionality of gun laws. and in the last ten years, since the supreme court's blockbuster 2008 decision in district of columbia versus heller. which is what is usually called the two-part framework but there is an alternative test being championed by justice brett cavanaugh. gun laws should be evaluated solely on text, hi...