“In 2011, a federal appeals court voted 2-1 to uphold Washington, D.C.’s assault weapons ban. The lone dissent came from then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh, who argued that a gun restriction could only be constitutional if it fit with the nation’s history and tradition of gun regulation. Such a test, he wrote, would be ‘much less subjective,’ preventing judges from injecting their personal ideologies.
He meant it allows them to be lazy. And now he’s a Justice.
https://www.thetrace.org/2024/10/judges-partisan-gun-cases-bruen-courts/