I am hoping that Amy Barrett is chosen and seated by the fall of next year. I dont believe Ruth will be a Justice much longer.
Conservative "Originalist" and supporter of the Second Amendment?
Sure.
She wrote an impressive dissent for
Kanter v. Barr on Second Amendment rights -
http://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-b...1478:J:Flaum:aut:T:fnOp:N:2309276:S:0#page=27
"Founding-era legislatures did not strip felons of the right to bear arms simply because of their status as felons ... Felon voting rights are a good example: a
state can disenfranchise felons, but if it refrains from doing so, their
voting rights remain constitutionally protected. So too with the right to keep and bear arms:
a state can disarm certain people (for example, those convicted of crimes of domestic violence), but if it refrains from doing so, their rights remain constitutionally protected. In other words,
a person convicted of a qualifying crime does not automatically lose his right to keep and bear arms but instead becomes eligible to lose it.
... First,
none of the relevant limiting language made its way into the Second Amendment. Second, only New Hampshire’s proposal - the least restrictive of the three - even carried a majority of its convention ... Third,
proposals from other states that advocated a constitutional right to arms did not contain similar language of limitation or exclusion.
... Heller ... squarely holds that 'the Second Amendment confer an individual right to keep and bear arms,' ...
Heller ... emphasizes that the Second Amendment is rooted in the individual’s right to defend himself—not in his right to serve in a well-regulated militia.
... The
Second Amendment confers an individual right, intimately connected with the natural right of self defense, and not limited to civic participation (i.e., militia service)
'Kanter is a first-time, non-violent offender with no history of violence, firearm misuses, or subsequent convictions ... employed, married, and does not use illicit drugs, all of which correspond with lower rates of recidivism.' Absent evidence that Kanter would pose a risk to the public safety if he possessed a gun, the governments cannot permanently deprive him of his right to keep and bear arms."
