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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Oliver Laughland

After latest mass shooting, is the supreme court poised to expand gun rights?

A man standing in front of the supreme court building holds a shocking pink posterboard on which is written 'End gun violence'.
The supreme court is set to hear arguments in a New York gun rights case that could have an effect on second amendment rights. Photograph: José Luis Magaña/AP

As the world looks on in horror following mass killings in Buffalo, New York and Uvalde, Texas, the US supreme court is set to issue its first major ruling on gun rights in over a decade.

And with a conservative super majority now installed on the bench, most onlookers expect a substantial broadening of second amendment rights in the country despite the widespread revulsion at the latest shootings in a supermarket and a school.

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