The Long and The Short of Bruen

Published: July 13, 2022, 4 a.m.

b'We continue our look at the big cases that rocked the end of the Supreme Court term.\\xa0 Turning to the Bruen gun case, we see a long opinion and two short concurrences.\\xa0 An ambitious, contentious opinion by Justice Thomas riled many, especially in the wake of the continuing plague of shootings around America.\\xa0 We draw particular attention, however, to concurrences that may be the real news here.\\xa0 And if this case indeed has great impact, is it in its short-term policy implications, or its long-term constitutional lessons - or somewhere else?\\xa0 The case turns out, in Professor Amar\\u2019s \\u201cPrincess Bride\\u201d view, to perhaps not mean what you think it means.'