More Gun Cases Waiting in High Court Wings if NY Dispute Flops

The first gun rights case at the U.S. Supreme Court in a decade looks like it might get tossed on a procedural hiccup, but questions raised at argument Dec. 2 about the heightened standard of scrutiny that gun rights advocates would like to see for gun regulations preview what the court’s next Second Amendment case could look like.

By taking an off ramp in the current case, the justices could delay putting the court in the middle of a highly charged political issue until after the 2020 elections, where Republicans’ stance on gun regulations threatens to hurt their chances with ...