Gun Rights Groups Express Support for Barrett as Supreme Court Nominee

Gun Rights Groups Express Support for Barrett as Supreme Court Nominee
National Rifle Association members listen to speakers during the NRA's annual Meetings and Exhibits at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas, on May 4, 2013. Johnny Hanson/Houston Chronicle via AP
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Several gun rights organizations have lauded President Donald Trump’s choice of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the vacancy in the Supreme Court while urging the Senate to act swiftly to confirm her.

Gun owners and advocates are seeing Barrett’s nomination as hope for a major Supreme Court ruling to clarify the application of the Second Amendment after the court dismissed a New York case on the issue and declined to review several others this term.