pullo: 7th Circuit's ruling stands apart from most others on this issue, so the SCOTUS likely waiting for that decision to be appealed before hearing a case on the matter.
You say 7th circuit stands apart from most others on this issue, what is the approx tally can you say? that is, you posted 10th circuit to counter 7th so its 1 to 1, what are the other circuits ruling for concealed carry side? I haven't followed this but am interested.
Dunno if you (pullo) post conjecture or substance, but after reading OP only I was about to post that this scotus 'decision' is indeed a surprising guncontrol victory coming from the rightwing roberts court. Since it ordinarily would show uncertainty amongst the rightwing side & caution should be the rule of thumb by the gunnuts (remember nra did not want to pursue the individual rkba heller case fearing kennedy might go militia). Not quite as good as an actual scotus court case about it with a rights denial of carrying outside the home, but a tacit disapproval it seems.
Had scotus decided to pursue the current case I'd've thunk 'more guns more guns' concealed all over the place.
From what pullo posts I wonder if I'm just surprised about a pyrrhic guncontrol victory, short lived.
Again, dunno that much about how scotus works, would scalia or roberts have final say about whether to consider this?
How long does the gun lobby have to challenge this issue again? next week after they file again or is it a year perhaps?
PS: there are several state constitutions RKBA's from the 1800's thru 1970s where states provided constitutional prohibitions on carrying concealed weapons, & allowed for their state legislators to enable prohibitions on carrying concealed. IIRC about half of them, Missouri, North carolina, kansas, colorado, texas even, states where today you wouldn't expect it.
Point being, the 2013 scotus would have to rule these all were 'unconstitutional', yet not too many serious complaints arose back then, as violating the 2nd pretendment.
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