New at Reason: Jacob Sullum on Sotomayor and Gun Rights

June 17, 2009

Gun Owners of America calls Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor "an anti-gun radical." The Second Amendment Foundation says her selection was "a slap at gun rights."

Such characterizations are based mainly on Sotomayor's participation in a January decision that said state and local governments are not bound by the Second Amendment. But because Sotomayor's conclusion was arguably compelled by a series of 19th-century Supreme Court precedents, says Senior Editor Jacob Sullum, it does not necessarily signal an anti-gun bias.

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