Talk about timing.
The United States Supreme Court this week will decide this week on wether to take up a case that challenges a Connecticut law banning the ownership of military-style firearms in that state just days after the same type of weapon was used to kill 50 people at an Orlando nightclub.
The ban in question was passed into law in Connecticut following the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, which left 20 children and six adults dead at the hands of shooter Adam Lanza and an AR-15 military-style rifle. It is the same riffle used by Omar Mateem at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.
How much current events will sway the judges to accept the case is not known, but Orlando, the largest mass shooting in U.S. history, will may hep the justices to deny the petition by gun proponents to overturn the law.
The Court is looking into whether a challenge mounted against the law banning weapons like the AR-15 in Connecticut is lawful.
U.S. President Barack Obama has renewed his call for tougher gun laws in the United States. Speaking yesterday, he labeled the Orlando shooting as “a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot people at a school, or a house of worship, or a movie theatre, or a nightclub,” tying the Orlando shooting into a wider and growing body of gun violence in the United States.
Sources: National Law Journal; Wall Street Journal
