I was making a barely-veiled reference to Bruen, actually. "Can cities require demonstration of need, to carry firearms?"
The bump stock ruling's stupidity had more to do with resting entirely on silly, plainly-motivated reasoning than its relying on objectively wrong "facts".
Incidentally, I was wrong about it mattering whether it was argued: the historical evidence was argued, and the majority simply went "uhhhh those many examples don't count, because I don't want them to". What's been turned up since the case is examples that fit the much narrower criteria they said would have been needed (neatly carved out to evade the provided examples) but positively asserted don't exist (to any notable degree), in such volume that it's beyond clear that restricting carry of firearms in towns on a need-basis was common throughout the country's history, and not just in the West (their reasoning for rejecting those examples, I shit you not, was "um, those don't count because they're from one area, never mind it's a giant area"—if it's starting to look like they were playing Calvinball with that ruling, it's because that's exactly what they were doing)
The bump stock ruling's stupidity had more to do with resting entirely on silly, plainly-motivated reasoning than its relying on objectively wrong "facts".
Incidentally, I was wrong about it mattering whether it was argued: the historical evidence was argued, and the majority simply went "uhhhh those many examples don't count, because I don't want them to". What's been turned up since the case is examples that fit the much narrower criteria they said would have been needed (neatly carved out to evade the provided examples) but positively asserted don't exist (to any notable degree), in such volume that it's beyond clear that restricting carry of firearms in towns on a need-basis was common throughout the country's history, and not just in the West (their reasoning for rejecting those examples, I shit you not, was "um, those don't count because they're from one area, never mind it's a giant area"—if it's starting to look like they were playing Calvinball with that ruling, it's because that's exactly what they were doing)