Have you ever had some whack job, nut ball, stalker, or violent freak threatening toward you or your family? I sincerely hope you haven’t. It’s not any fun at all, even without an overt threat of violence. Most people never experience it, thankfully, but in this day and age of interconnectivity, far too many run afoul of these disturbed individuals.
Now, picture a situation where you’ve run into one of these nutbars. They’re acting in a threatening manner and make it clear they know where you live. Imagine that you don’t have any guns, so you decide to solve that, only to walk into the gun store and be told that you have to wait seven days before you can actually take possession of your new firearm.
That’s fine if you’re not attacked in that period, but can you really trust that you won’t?
I wouldn’t.
That’s why the Tenth Circuit’s decision on New Mexico’s seven-day waiting period is such a crucial win.
And right now, the NRA is celebrating that win.
In response to the major Second Amendment victory in Ortega v. Grisham, the NRA lawsuit against New Mexico’s seven-day waiting period law, John Commerford, Executive Director of NRA-ILA, released the following statement:
“In courtrooms across America, the NRA is successfully leading the charge to protect law-abiding Americans’ Second Amendment rights. The 10th Circuit has sided with the NRA and held that radical waiting period laws are indeed unconstitutional. This decision not only impacts gun owners in New Mexico but serves as a key piece in dismantling similar gun control laws across the country.” – John Commerford, NRA-ILA Executive Director
Commerford is absolutely orrect.
What’s more, the Tenth Circuit’s decision isn’t just a slam dunk on waiting periods, but is a masterclass on how to address gun control defenses throughout the nation. All too often, anti-gun efforts center around disturbing relics of a racist past as justification for current gun control efforts, and the court knocked it out of the park by noting that taking isolated, racist infringements on rights as justification for gun control is wrong on pretty much every level.
Cam argued that this should be included in every gun rights case going forward, and I’m in full agreement. It was legendary, the way the opinion debunks these ridiculous claims.
The NRA is taking a mild victory lap on this one, and it’s deserved. Yes, waiting periods are wrong, but it’s also entirely possible this legal decision will lay some important groundwork for dismantling gun control schemes throughout the nation.
I don’t think that was the NRA’s intention by any stretch of the imagination. I think this was about the waiting period for them, though not just New Mexico’s. They likely hoped to kill them everywhere, but this might end up being a far more important case than we might otherwise believe.
Or, maybe not. I mean, Bruen was a big win too, and some judges have seen fit to ignore what the Supreme Court said, so activist anti-gun judges will probably do the same with the Tenth Circuit’s opinion.
Still, it’s a win, and a win is a win. Even if it does nothing else, it’ll hopefully give folks in New Mexico some relief, which is enough. If it does more, well, we’ll take it and celebrate that, too.
We’ll just have to wait and see.
Editor’s Note: The Second Amendment is being fought for throughout the nation, in the legislatures and in the courtrooms.
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