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The two assault rifle bans are consolidated for oral argument.

Last year, I taught the folks at Duke Law how to batch download and scan cert petitions for Second Amendment cases. They still miss a few, but most of them can be found at this link.

Nearly all of the cases that had already been distributed to at least one conference already, were relisted today to this Thursday's conference. Although the SCOTUS calendar does not indicate that an Orders list will be released next Monday, for the last three terms one was released.

Last term, we had an Orders list in July that contained five cert petition grants.

I have no way of knowing the fate of these relisted cases. I would not be surprised if the 922 (g)(3) cases are Granted, Vacated, and Remanded (GVR'd) in light of US v. Hemani. The fate of the rest is anyone's guess.

I was going to wait to publish this article, but we might have the SCOTUS decisions in Wolford and Hermani tomorrow, so here is a bonus article. It's includes the oral argument from last Wednesday, as well as links to the briefs for those who care to take a deep dive into what is otherwise a very shallow case.

We are running out of conferences this term for the justices to grant a Second Amendment cert petition. There are twenty-six petitions distributed for the voting conference tomorrow.

As usual, I have listed all of them at the end of my article.

We have 15 Second Amendment cert petitions distributed to today's conference. Five of them are the recurring "assault rifle" and "large capacity" magazine ban petitions. This is the 19th conference for Gator's Custom Guns, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Washington, which presents the question: "Whether ammunition feeding devices with the capacity to hold more than ten rounds are “Arms” presumptively entitled to constitutional protection under the plain text of the Second Amendment."

I asked John Elwood of SCOTUSblog Relist Watch fame, who dug a little deeper, and he found a capital case that was voted on 25 times before the petition was granted. So, Gator's hasn't set an all-time record, but it is a record for Second Amendment relists.

The petitions for today's and next week's conference are listed at the bottom of the article.

Mark Baird v. Rob Bonta is a lawsuit challenging California's ban on openly carrying handguns. Mr. Baird had won before a three-judge panel. That win was vacated, and will be reheard en banc today.

Today, Wednesday, June 3, at 1:30 PM, the en banc oral argument in Baird v. Bonta will be live-streamed on YouTube at this link.

If you miss the live stream, a video of the oral argument will be archived at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals channel on YouTube at this link.

Later in the afternoon, at 4:30 PM, I will be joining the Director of Legal Research and Education at the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), Kostas Moros, for a Twitter/X live talk about the oral argument at this link.

If you can't join the Twitter/X live talk, you can still listen to a recording of it at the same link.

Kostas Moros wrote and filed an Amicus brief in support of Mark Baird's handgun Open Carry lawsuit on behalf of the Second Amendment Foundation, California Rifle & Pistol Association, Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

EDIT: The SAF (Kostas Moros) will be live tweeting his comments on the oral argument beginning at 1:30 PM at this link.

This conference is deja vu all over again.