Article on FoxNews speculating that Kolbe ("assault rifle" and "large capacity magazine" bans) from Maryland could be the next Second Amendment rights case SCOTUS grants cert to. The other "high profile" case that will likely be considered at the first conference in October is Norman ("open carry" ban) from Florida. SCOTUS has not taken a firearms Second Amendment case since McDonald in 2010 (See Justice Thomas's complaint/listing in his Peruta denial of cert dissent of how many cases they've taken since then involving other Bill of Rights amendments). (The Caetano per curiam was about "stun guns", not firearms.) Article includes auto-play video of four minute interview with head of the NRA-ILA Chris Cox on "illegal gun" crime prosecution under Obama and now Trump.

Supreme Court's next big gun control case? Post-Newtown laws face new scrutiny

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/04/supreme-courts-next-big-gun-control-case-post-newtown-laws-face-new-scrutiny.html

Jay Porter, an attorney for the plaintiffs, complained about a patchwork of rulings in the wake of the landmark 2008 Heller decision upholding the individual’s right to own a gun. He called on the Supreme Court to clear up the confusion.

“We would like to see a reversal in the trend of the lower courts,” Porter said. “At best, there is a lot of confusion in the lower courts about the Second Amendment. At worst, lower courts are ignoring and resisting the Heller decision because they didn’t like the outcome. That resistance needs to be mediated.”

In response to Newtown, 21 states passed some type of new gun control laws in 2013, according to a joint report by the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence and the Brady Campaign. Most didn’t deal directly with buying or owning a firearm, but rather with background checks, record-keeping rules for gun dealers and other factors.