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    | Kavanaugh, Trump's Supreme Court Pick, Could Trigger Shift on Guns Submitted by: 
			
Mark A. Taff
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    | With the addition of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court could have a conservative majority to strike down bans on semiautomatic weapons in liberal states and to decree that law-abiding Americans have a right to carry a gun in public.
 
 Although the fight over Kavanaugh's nomination has mostly focused on abortion and health care, President Donald Trump's second nominee to the court could have a rapid impact on the national debate over gun control _ a topic the high court repeatedly has avoided wading into in recent years.
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    | Kavanaugh is correct, and the rest of the "conservative" jurists are not. 
 "[T]he enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table." - Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority in D.C. v. Heller (2008)
 
 That's a clear and succinct statement of the controlling interest on this issue.
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