With the Supreme Court poised to hand down a potentially landmark decision in the case, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence fully expects to lose.
“We’ve lost the battle on what the Second Amendment means,” campaign president Paul Helmke told ABC News. “Seventy-five percent of the public thinks it’s an individual right. Why are we arguing a theory anymore? We are concerned about what we can do practically.”
But the Brady Campaign is hoping that losing the “legal battle” will eventually lead to gun control advocates winning the “political war.”
If the Supreme Court strikes down the D.C. gun ban, the Brady Campaign is hoping that it will reorient gun control groups around more limited measures that will be harder to cast as infringements of the Second Amendment.
Brady Campaign Attorney Dennis Henigan said three such gun-control measures included:
Universal background checks.“Banning a super dangerous class of weapons, like assault weapons….”Curbing large-volume sales
