Neil Gorsuch: “Apart from pointing to habitual drunkard laws, the government has not even attempted to prove that any other specific…”

Many of the arguments before us today follow a sadly familiar pattern. Yes, promises were made but the price of keeping them has become too great so now we should just cast a blind eye. We reject that thinking.

The government that kind of 'broad power to designate any group as dangerous and thereby disqualify its members from having a gun,' would risk allowing it to 'quickly swallow' the Second Amendment.

The Supreme Court of the United States has held in Roe vs. Wade that a fetus is not a person. That’s the law of the land. I accept the law of the land.

[o]ne can only hope the political branches and future courts will do their duty to honor this Nation's promises even as we have failed today to do our own.